# Evelina Papoulia

Evelina Papoulia (Greek: Εβελίνα Παπούλια; born 25 March 1971) is a Greek actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as Marina Kountouratou in the TV series Dyo Xenoi (1997).

## Career

In 1989 she moved to New York City to study dance at The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and acting at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. During her time in New York City, she took part in several plays, such as West Side Story (1993), while participating in the Mega Dance Company. Originally she wanted to obtain the American citizenship, but failing to do so she returned to Athens in 1993 and continued working as an actress. Evelina first claimed stardom as the hysterical blond TV persona Marina Kountouratou, who fell in love with a man of classic education, in Dyo Xenoi in 1997.
Her film debut was in the successful Greek film Safe Sex in 1999.
While working on TV shows, she continued her career on stage with plays such as Waiting Till Dark (1999) and the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
From 2006 until 2008, she was a judge at the Greek version of So You Think You Can Dance.

## Personal life

Papoulia has a daughter named Afroditi-Maria, from her first marriage to George Liantos. In May 2008, she married director Panagiotis Kravvas in Scotland and got divorced in 2008.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Safe Sex | Mary | Film debut |
| 2000 | One plus One | Catherine | |
| 2001 | One time | Vaso | |
| 2003 | Billy, Gates and a ride | Gely | short film |
| 2004 | Brides | Marion Gibson | |
| 2006 | Illustration | TV presenter | |
| 2007 | First time godfather | Alex's mother | |
| 2009 | Guilt | wife | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Moral Department | Dora Afedaki | Episode: "Plan" |
| 1993 | The Implementation | Sophia Laskaridou | 1 episode |
| 1994 | Love and Passion | | Episode: "Antigone" |
| 1994 | The Stockbrokers | Dafne Deligiorgi | 1 episode |
| 1994 | The Good Mother in Law | Lia Kehayia | 5 episodes |
| 1994 | Anatomy of a crime | woman with rashes | Episode: "The third commandment" |
| 1994 | Anatomy of a crime | Claire | Episode: "The Professional" |
| 1994 | Peter and his girls | Renia Koropouli | Episode: "Pythagorean theorem" |
| 1994-1995 | Taurus with Sagitarrius | Katia | Series regular, 32 episodes |
| 1995 | Daring Stories | Liana | Episode: "Maestro" |
| 1995 | Streets of the city | Leda | Episode: "Double game" |
| 1995-1996 | Correct Sophia | Lora Katoumani | Series regular, 16 episodes |
| 1996 | Scorpio | Olga Valtinou | Episode: "Carp" |
| 1996-1997 | Unusual Suspects | Lena | Main role, 35 episodes |
| 1997-1999 | Two Strangers | Marina Koudouratou | Lead role, 59 episodes |
| 2000-2001 | Crescendo | Anna Theologou | Lead role, 20 episodes |
| 2001-2002 | Nirvana | Aphrodite | Lead role, 26 episodes |
| 2002 | Gulf Grosso | | Recurring role, 10 episodes |
| 2002 | Red Circle | Hristina | Episode: "Love died" |
| 2002-2003 | Educating Babis | Julie Variheri | Lead role, 11 episodes |
| 2003 | Almost Never | Eva | 1 episode |
| 2003-2004 | Finally you are so bum | Lila | Lead role, 13 episodes |
| 2004 | 10th command | Dina | Episode: "A minute later" |
| 2004 | 10th command | Despoina | Episode: "Without return" |
| 2004 | 10th command | Eleni | Episode: "In deep waters" |
| 2005 | The Red Suite | Artemis | Episode: "Karma" |
| 2006 | 10th command | Leda | Episode: "The sleeping queen" |
| 2006 | Honest Cuckolds | Eve | Episode: "The Oriole Cuckolds" |
| 2006-2008 | So You Think You Can Dance | Herself (judge) | Season 1-2 |
| 2007 | If you love me | Katerina Marni | Lead role, 53 episodes |
| 2007-2008 | I bought red glasses | Marianna Oikonomou | Lead role, 29 episodes |
| 2008 | Safe Sex TV Stories | Stella Nevi | Episode: "The abduction" |
| 2008 | True Loves | Marianna | Episode: "The beast in the cage" |
| 2012 | My mother's sin | Vagia Kastellanou Spencer | 2 episodes (2 unaired) |
| 2013-2017 | Brousko | Daphne Krontira | Lead role, 772 episodes |
| 2015 | 10th command | Nina | Episode: "Red" |
| 2015 | 10th command | Eleni | Episode: "Alert" |
| 2017-2019 | The Tattoo | Vera Damianou | Lead role, 522 episodes |
| 2019-2020 | Home Is | Rania Anagnostou | Lead role, 38 episodes (8 unaired) |
| 2021-2022 | The Sun | Ioanna Galanou | Recurring role, 45 episodes |
| 2024-2025 | Archelaus 5 Str. | | Lead role |