# Athina Oikonomakou

Athina Oikonomakou (Greek: Αθηνά Οικονομάκου; born 6 March 1986) is a Greek actress, businesswoman, media personality and model. After she finished her acting studies, she made her first acting appearances on television, theatre and cinema. She gained huge fame in 2009 when she started leading on daytime soap opera of MEGA The life of the other woman as Xenia Pappa from 2009 to 2012. Followed by the other daytime successful lead roles in Stolen Dreams (2011), The ring of fire (2014) and On my shoes (2016).
In 2016, Oikonomakou launched her own jewelry brand Allover by Athina Oikonomakou followed by her second company on fashion industry Project Soma in 2019.

## Early life

Athina Oikonomakou was born on March 6, 1986, in Skala, Laconia, to Dionysis Oikonomakos, a naval, and Georgia Oikonomakou, a housewife. She has an older brother, named Nikitas.
At the age of 18, after graduating from school, she entered a university. For this reason, she moved to Athens to study in the Agricultural University of Athens.

## Career
### University, acting studies and acting debut (2005-2008)

During the second year of her studies, in 2005, she decided to quit university in order to change her career road. For this reason, she had her exams for the acting school of Mimí Deníssi "Stage by Mimí Deníssi" where she was accepted. After 4 semesters of studying acting, she graduated in 2007.
In summer of 2007, she took part in an audition of ANT1 for new actors for the upcoming TV series of the season. There she gained her first television role on the drama-comedy Deligiannis Girls' School where she portrayed Domna Nika one of the students at the Greek girls' school back in the late '30s. In 2008, she made her debut on cinema on short film drama, An Angel's Bet. She also appeared in an episode of the romantic drama True Loves while she also starred in the commercial for Wash & Go. In September of the same year, she took on her first leading role in television in comedy series The Fearless where she played next to Giannis Vouros. The series was not a great success and was discontinued after just three months of airing. Moreover, she made her theatre debut next to Spyros Papadopoulos on the play The flower of Levande for a season.

### Television success and next acting hits (2009-2016)

In 2009, Oikonomakou starred in a commercial for the mobile phone company "Germanos" and made a brief appearance on the MEGA successful family comedy series, My Beloved Neighbors as Danae. In the same year, she took the lead role of Xenia Pappa in the brand new MEGA daytime soap opera, "The Life of the Other Woman" (directed by Dimitris Arvanitis), a role that made her famous to the general public but also made it quite difficult for her to join the leading cast of the series. Oikonomakou had stated in an interview: "For the Life of the Other Woman I did 30 castings with the director. I think he called me for two months every day and every day he gave me another text. I did not expect to take the role. I had suffered so much. I did so many castings because they did not want me from the channel. I was an inexperienced girl, very young, not at all known and the role was leading, very difficult and strong. So, she had to convince them (the director) with many ways that I can." Finally, the show premiered on 27 September 2009, and due to its great success, it ended after three TV seasons, on 6 January 2012. At the same time, in December 2011, she starred as Chryssa Maltezou in the new MEGA daytime soap opera, "Stolen Dreams", continuing her collaboration with the director Dimitris Arvanitis for a few more years. The huge success of the show caused MEGA to renew it for a few extra seasons. In 2014, after the end of the third season, she announced that she would not continue having the lead role of the show for the fourth season, but she would make shorts guests for the season 2014/15. In 2014, she took part in an episode of successful ALPHA comedy "Do not start the moaning" next to Panos Vlachos and Joanna Fyllidis.
On September 22, 2014, she also starred on the daytime drama of MEGA Cyprus "The Ring of Fire" till May 6, 2015 when the show concluded. After six whole years on daytime television with successful appearance, in the 2015/2016 season, she starred in the MEGA prime-time comedy "The Worst Week of My Life" (directed by Stefanos Blatsou), the Greek adaptation of the BBC One sitcom The Worst Week of My Life, along with Makis Papadimitriou, Arietta Moutousi and Gerasimos Skiadaresis. On April 18, 2016, she made an appearance as a singer on the stage of annual fashion and music TV show 2016 MadWalk - The Fashion Music Project dueted with the rock band My Excuse on Whole Lotta Love.

### On my shoes, television appearances as herself and next acting steps (2016-today)

On October 3, 2016, Oikonomakou began starring in the Alpha TV Daytime series, "On my shoes" portraying the character of the ruthless socialite Fay Stathatou. Her presence on the show continued until the middle of the second season, in 2018, when she temporarily left the show to give birth to her first child. She returned in October 2018 at the beginning of the third season continuing her successful storyline. In 2021, she announced that she would leave the show forever this time, so she did, in April to give birth to her second child. The character of Fay Stathatou appeared for the last time on April 21, and she never made an appearance again not even at the end of the show. On May 10, 2019, she co-hosted with Nikos Moutsinas his daytime comedy talk show For the Company on Open TV. In November 2020, she appeared as a guest art director at Greece's Next Top Model with Mary Synatsaki for the advertising of their company, Project S.O.M.A. taking part at the mission of the episodes helping the contestants. After a short television absence, she came back in March 2022, as a part of the panel on the first season of the Greek reality singing competition The Masked Singer for one season. In 2023, she came back on TV as an actress portraying Katia Lymberi on ANT1's dramedy The First of Us for one season. From October 2024, she had one of the main roles on MEGA family sitcom I Have Children playing the role of Ioanna Talage, one very rich and unrealistic mother of the show.

### Stage and film

Theatrically, Oikonomakou made her debut in 2008, with the play "The Flower of Levante" at the Anesis Theater, while in 2010, she participated in the play "The Cactus Flower", which was played in Thessaloniki. In the summer of 2011, she starred in the play "The Desperate" (directed by George Valaris) at the Athena Theater, the 2011–2012 season in "Method of Infidelity" (directed by Ch. Karchadaki) at the Veaki Theater and in the summer of 2012, she toured throughout Greece, with the play "The Baptisms" (directed by Nikos Moutsinas), which was also played at the Ark Theater in the winter season 2012–2013. In the summer of 2013, they toured again. In the 2013–2014 season, she played in the play "The KTEL" (directed by Nikos Moutsina), with which they performed in Thessaloniki in Summer 2014. She has stated that she wants to dedicate herself to her family and that is why she will be late to do theater again.
In the cinema, she has starred in four films. The first was "Bet of Angels" (2008) followed by "A Night in Athens" (2013) by Dimitris Arvanitis, "Amore mio" (2015) and "Magic Mirror" (2016) by Christos Dimas.

## Entrepreneurship
### Allover by Athina Oikonomakou

In March 2016, Oikonomakou launched her first collection of handmade jewelry, under the name Allover by Athina Oikonomakou. In February 2019, the first Allover store opened in Athens.

### Project S.O.M.A.

In June 2019, she jointly launched with Maria Synatsaki, their first line of clothing, under the name Project S.O.M.A., which is available online.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2007-2008 | Deligiannis Girls' School | Domna Nika | Series regular, 28 episodes |
| 2008 | True Loves | Eleni | Episode: "The beast in cage" |
| 2008-2009 | The Fearless | Melina Valaskou | Main role, 14 episodes |
| 2009 | My Beloved Neighbours | Danae | 1 episode |
| 2009-2012 | The life of the other woman | Xenia Pappa | Main role, 401 episodes |
| 2011-2015 | Stolen Dreams | Chrysa Maltezou | Main role, (seasons 1–3, 418 episodes) Recurring role, (season 4, 30 episodes) |
| 2014 | Don't start moaning | Katrina | 1 episode |
| 2014-2015 | The Ring of Fire | Marina Stratigou | Main role, 122 episodes |
| 2015-2016 | The Worst Week of my Life | Melina Korniliadi | Main role, 7 episodes |
| 2016 | MadWalk - The Fashion Music Project | Herself (performance) | TV special |
| 2016-2021 | On my shoes | Fay Stathatou | Main role, 800 episodes |
| 2019 | For the Company with Nikos Moutsinas | Herself (host) | Episode: "May 10 / Athina Oikonomakou" |
| 2020 | Greece's Next Top Model | Herself (guest) | Episode: "Art Director's Show (season 5)" |
| 2022 | The Masked Singer Greece | Herself (judge) | Season 1 |
| 2023-2024 | The First of Us | Katia Lymberi | Main role, 60 episodes |
| 2024-today | I Have Children | Ioanna Talage | Main role |

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008 | An Angel's Bet | Eva | Film debut |
| 2013 | A Night in Athens | Myrto | |
| 2015 | Amore Mio | Nefeli | |
| 2016 | Magic Mirror | Natasa | |
| TBA | The baptisms | | |

## Stage

| Production | Year | Theater | Role |
| To Fioro tou Levade | 2008-2009 | Theater Aneses | |
| Cactus Flower | 2010-2011 | Theater Elesia | Tonia |
| Oi Apelpismenoi | 2011 | Theater Athena | |
| Le Système Ribadier | 2011-2012 | Theater Veaki | Aggeliki |
| Ta Vaftisia | 2012 | Tour | Borta Pomolova |
| Ta Vaftisia | 2012-2013 | Theater Kivotos | Borta Pomolova |
| Ta Vaftisia | 2013 | Tour | Borta Pomolova |
| To Ktel | 2013-2014 | Theater Kivotos | |
| To Ktel | 2014 | Theater Radio City | |

## Personal life

In the summer of 2013, Oikonomakou began her relationship with the businessman Filippos Michopoulos and on 18 November 2017, they got married in a civil ceremony in Gytheio. On 14 March 2018, their son, Maximos, was born and a few months later, on 6 October, the couple got married in a religious wedding in Mykonos. On 8 June 2021, their daughter Sienna-Ilektra was born. In 2024, their divorce was publicly announced. A few weeks later she was dating Bruno Cerella.