# Angeliki Papoulia

Angeliki Papoulia (Greek: Αγγελική Παπούλια; born 1975) is a Greek actress and theatre director. In film, she is most notable for her roles in Dogtooth, Alps and The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos, and A Blast and The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea by Syllas Tzoumerkas. For her part in Dogtooth she was awarded with a Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress (together with Mary Tsoni).

## Life and career

Papoulia was born in 1975 in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Embros drama school. Right after her graduation she collaborated with Greek theatre directors Michail Marmarinos, Lefteris Voyatzis and Yannis Houvardas in various performances, most notably National Anthem'', School of Women, and Romeo and Juliet.
In 2004, Papoulia founded with fellow actors Christos Passalis and Yorgos Valais the blitz theatre group. Since then, she co-directed, co-written and acted in all of the group's performances in Athens and across Europe: Motherland (Bios theatre, Athens), Joy Division (Bios theatre, Athens), New Order (Bios theatre, Athens), Faust (National Theatre of Greece), Katerini (Athens and Epidaurus Festival), Guns! Guns! Guns! (National Theatre of Greece), Cinemascope (Athens and Epidaurus Festival and Bios theatre, Athens), Galaxy (Michalis Cacoyannis Institute, Athens & Schaubuhne, Berlin), Don Quixote (Athens & Epidaurus Festival), Late Night (Onassis Cultural Center and La Filature), Vanya - Ten years After (Technis theatre in co-production with La Comédie de Reims and Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne), 6am How To Disappear Completely (Onassis Cultural Center in co-production with Sao Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon, La Filature, La Comédie De Reims, Théâtre De La Ville - Paris, Nouveau Théâtre De Montreuil, Ligne Directe - Paris and Festival d' Avignon). One of the most celebrated Greek theatre ensembles, the blitz theatre group define their basic principles as following: "theatre is a field where people meet each other and exchange ideas in the most essential way, not a field for virtuosity and ready made truths. There is a need for answers to what society asks from art today and what theatrical structures stand for in the dawn of the 21st century. All members are equal throughout conception, writing, direction and dramaturgy process, everything is under doubt, there is nothing to be taken for granted, neither in theatre nor in life."
Parallel to her theater work, Papoulia started her film acting career with short films and a minor part in feature film Alexandreia by Maria Iliiou. In 2002, she appeared in Yannis Economidis' debut film "Matchbox" in the part of Kiki.
In 2008, Papoulia had the leading part of 'Older Daughter' in Yorgos Lanthimos' Oscar nominated and Cannes film festival awarded Dogtooth. Her collaboration with Lanthimos continued in his next film Alps that was awarded with the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice International Film Festival. In 2014, Angeliki Papoulia had the leading part of 'Maria' in Syllas Tzoumerkas' A Blast which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival. In 2015, she appeared as the 'Heartless Woman' in Yorgos Lanthimos' Cannes awarded and Oscar nominated The Lobster. In 2019, her second collaboration with Tzoumerkas, thriller The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. For her performances in these five films, Angeliki Papoulia was widely praised by the international press, with Der Spiegel calling her "one of the most fearless European actresses working today'.
In 2016, Papoulia was a member of the Locarno International Film Festival Pardi di domani Jury and of the Sarajevo International Film Festival Competition Jury.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Matchbox | Kiki | — |
| 2008 | Well Kept Secrets, Athanassia | Georgia | — |
| 2009 | Dogtooth | Older daughter | — |
| 2011 | Alps | Nurse | — |
| 2014 | A Blast | Maria | — |
| 2015 | The Lobster | Heartless Woman | — |
| 2018 | Pity | Woman at Hospital | — |
| 2019 | The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea | Elisabeth | — |
| 2020 | Amulet | Miriam | Sundance Film Festival |
| 2020 | Green Sea | Anna | — |
| 2021 | Cryptozoo | Phoebe (voice) | Sundance Film Festival |
| 2021 | Patchwork | Chara | — |
| 2021 | Oeil oignon | | — |
| 2022 | A Little Love Package | Angeliki | — |
| 2022 | Isyhia 6-9 | | — |
| 2022 | I poli kai i poli | Sarina | — |
| 2022 | Human Flowers of Flesh | Ida | — |
| 2022 | Cavewoman | Cavewoman | — |
| 2023 | I mitera mou eine agia | | Short film |
| 2023 | Touched | | — |
| 2023 | Voices in Deep | Gloria | — |
| 2023 | Shooting Blanks | Christina | — |
| 2024 | Arcadia | Katerina | World Premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 2024 | The Strangers' Case | Helena | — |
| 2024 | To a Land Unknown | Tatiana | — |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2017 | The Tunnel | Lana Khasanović |

## Theatre work

Angeliki Papoulia theatre work :
| Year | Title | Director | Theatre |
| 2001 | National Hymn | Michael Marmarinos | Theseum Theatre |
| 2004 | Romeo and Juliet | Michael Marmarinos | Theseum Theatre |
| 2004 | L' Ecole des femmes | Lefteris Vogiatzis | Nea Skini Theatre |
| 2006 | Motherland | blitz theatre group | BIOS cultural center / Giessen, Germany / Aix-en-Provence France |
| 2007 | Joy Division / New Order | blitz theatre group | BIOS cultural center |
| 2008 | Bossa Nova | Konstantinos Rigos | National Theatre of Greece |
| 2008 | Tales from the Vienna Woods | Yiannis Houvardas | Athens & Epidaurus Festival – National Theatre of Greece |
| 2009 | The House | blitz theatre group | Athens, Agisilaou 90, Greece |
| 2009 | Faust | co-dir. blitz theatre group | National Theatre of Greece |
| 2009 | Katerini | co-dir. blitz theatre group | Athens & Epidaurus Festival - BIOS cultural center |
| 2009 | Guns! Guns! Guns! | blitz theatre group | National Theatre of Greece / Theatre de la Ville - Paris, France, 2011 / Theatre Le Volcan - Le Havre, France 2012 / Theatre Dijon Bourgogne - Parvis Saint-Jean, France 2013 / Le Trident - Scene National de Cherbourg, France 2014 |
| 2010 | CINEMASCOPE | blitz theatre group | Athens & Epidaurus Festival - BIOS cultural center |
| 2011 | Galaxy | blitz theatre group | Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation |
| 2011 | Platonov | Yorgos Lanthimos | National Theatre of Greece |
| 2012 | Don Quixote, the Death of Romance | blitz theatre group | Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greece / Reims Scenes d'Europe Festival, France 2012 / Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany 2013 / Theatre Liberte, Toulon 2014 / Les Nuits de Furviere, Lyon, France 2014 |
| 2012 | Galaxy | blitz theatre group | F.I.N.D. Festival Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | Late Night | blitz theatre group | Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece 2012 La Manufacture Atlantique, Bordeaux, France 2012 / Festival RING, Nancy, France 2012 / Reims, Scenes d'Europe Festival, France 2012 / La Filature - Scene Nationale, Mulhouse France 2012 / Theater Kikker, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2013 / Festival Theaterformen in Hannover, Germany 2013 / Theatre d'Arles, France 2013 / Theatro Stabile dell' Umbria, Solomeo, Italy 2013 / Theatre du Nord, Lille, France 2013 / Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil, Paris, France 2013 / Bozar Theatre in Brussels, Belgium 2014 / Le Trident - Scene National de Cherbourg, France 2014 / Le Maillon - Theatre de Strasbourg, France 2014 / Apollo Theater Siegen, Germany 2014 / Chateauvallon – Scene Nationale, France 2014 / Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, Germany 2014 / Les Nuits de Furviere, Lyon, France 2014 / Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany 2015 / Les scenes du Jura - Scene Nationale, France 2015 / Theatre Dijon, Bourgogne, France 2015 / Home Works Festival, Beirut, Lebanon 2015 / Kenter Theatre, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 / Kunstlerhaus Mousontrum, Frankfurt 2016 / Barbican, London LIFT Festival, UK 2016 / Napoli Theatro Festival, Italy 2016 / Bastard Festival, Trondheim, Norway 2016 / Festival Prapremier, Bydgoszcz, Poland 2016 / Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria 2016 / Theatre Garonne, Toulouse, France 2016 / Le Parvis Tarbes, France 2016 / AUAWIRLEBEN Theatre Festival Bern, Switzerland 2017 / Theater Der Jungen Welt Leipzig, Germany 2017 / Le Merlan, Marseille France 2017 / Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, Bogota Colombia 2018 / Teatro Astra - Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Torino Italy 2018 / Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden, Germany 2018 / Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto Portugal 2018 / The Atrium - International Theatre Festival in Klaipeda, Klaipeda, Lithuania 2019 |
| 2013 | The Terrorist Ballroom | blitz theatre group | F.I.N.D. Festival Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin, Germany |
| 2014 | Galaxy | blitz theatre group | Reims, Scenes d'Europe Festival, 2014 France / Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil, Paris, 2014 France / Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain, Paris, France 2014 |
| 2014 | Vanya. Ten Years After | blitz theatre group | Theatro Technis, Athens, Greece / Theatre Dijon Bourgogne, France 2015 / Reims, Scenes d'Europe Festival, France 2016 / Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Torino, Italy 2016 |
| 2016 | Galaxy | blitz theatre group | Frascati Theater Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2016 |
| 2016 | 6am How to disappear completely | blitz theatre group | Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece / Reims, Scenes d'Europe Festival, France 2016 / La Filature - Scene Nationale, Mulhouse, France 2016 / Festival d'Avignon, Avignon, France 2016 / São Luiz Municipal Theatre, Lisbon, Portugal 2016 / Théâtre de la Ville - Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Paris, France 2017 |
| 2017 | The Institute of Global Loneliness | blitz theatre group | Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2017 CULTURESCAPES 2017, Kaserne Basel, Switzerland 2017 / Festival Scènes d' Europe, Reims, France 2018 / Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 2018 |
| 2018 | Rob | Dimitris Karantzas | Onnassis Cultural Center / Le Lieu Unique Nantes France 2019 |
| 2019 | Alcestis | Angeliki Papoulia | Luzerner Theater – Luzern, Switzerland |
| 2019 | The Visit of the Old Lady | Christos Passalis | Luzerner Theater – Luzern, Switzerland |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2009 | Sarajevo Film Festival | Best Actress | Dogtooth | Won. |
| 2010 | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | Dogtooth | Nominated |
| 2015 | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | A Blast | Nominated |
| 2020 | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea | Won |
| 2020 | Los Angeles Greek Film Festival | Best Performance | The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea | Nominated |
| 2021 | Los Angeles Greek Film Festival | Best Performance | Green Sea | Nominated |
| 2022 | Cyprus Film Days International Festival | Best Actress | Patchwork | Won |
| 2022 | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | Patchwork | Nominated |
| 2022 | Los Angeles Greek Film Festival | Best Performance | Patchwork | Won |