Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou, playing the role of a high priestess, holds up the Olympic flame lit with a concave mirror near the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia where the Olympics were born in 776 B.C., Monday, March 24, 2008.
The flame for the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics has been lit using the sun’s rays at a ceremony in Ancient Olympia.
A human right activist opens a banner protesting the human rights situation in China and Tibet during the Lighting Ceremony
Maria Nafpliotou’s Mini Bio
Nafpliotou got a diploma from the state affiliated professional dance school of Rallou Manou. She had also won a scholarship for the state school of Classical dance in Leningrad in the former Soviet Union.She started a very successful professional career as a dancer and theater, cinema and TV actress, earning positive comments both from the public and the critics.From 1987, she was a core member of Rallou Manou’s dance troupe “Elliniko Chorodrama.”
Her first performance on stage took place in winter 1999 with Greece’s National Theater when she held the role of Katherine in Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly Last Summer”.She also took roles in many performance of Shakespeare drama with the National Theater of Greece.She made her debut in the cinema with the Greek film “The Island”. In 1996, she held the leading female role in Alexandros Papailiou’s film “Niovi dances her life”.
In 2005, she got the best actress award in Cairo’s International Film Festival for her role in Grigoris Karadinakis “Chariton’s Choir” film.Maria Nafpliotou is fluent in English, while literature, music, dance and cinema are her hobbies.
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