Martha Vourtsi was born in 1937, in Athens, Greece. She studied acting
at the Drama School of "Theatro Technis" and made her professional
stage debut in a 1958 Athens production of
Carlo Goldoni's "Locandiera". She
collaborated with many important stage groups, appearing in diverse
roles: she played Sarah Muller in
Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine",
Hecuba in
Euripides' "The Trojan Women",
Mother Superior in Rogers - Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music", Asta in
Iakovos Kabanellis' "I Avli ton
Thavmaton" etc. She also became very popular appearing in more than 30
films during the 1960's; most of them were melodramas, in which she was
typecast as a poor girl who falls in love with an upper-class man.
I polykatoikia(2008)as Panagiota Petroheilou
1 minas kai kati(2007)as Kaiti
Epta thanasimes petheres(2004)as Persa
Ekpaidevontas ton Babi(2002)
The Yellow Gloves(1960)
X - Skinis afta pou 'kapsan to sanidi(2010)
I ERT se oli tin Ellada(1986)as Narrator
To portraito tis Pemptis(1976)as Self
I Athina ti nyhta(1962)as Self
