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).

Athina Oikonomakou
Born (1986-03-06) 6 March 1986
Spouse
Filippos Michopoulos
(m. 2017)
Children2

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, Oikonomakou after graduating from school, she entered in university. For this reason she moved to Athens to study in the Agricultural University of Athens.

Career

The quit of 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.[1]

On 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 of 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. On 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.

The big television success and the next acting steps (2009-2016)

In 2009, Oikonomakou starred in a commercial for the mobile phone company "Germanos" and made a brief appearance on the Mega Channel series, Latremenoi Mou Geitones as Danae. In the same year, she took the leading role of Xenia Pappas in the Mega Channel series, "The Life of the Other" (directed by Dimitris Arvanitis), a role that made her known 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 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 series premiered on 27 September 2009 and due to its great success, it ended after three TV seasons, on 6 January 2012.[2] At the same time, in December 2011, she started starring as Chryssa Maltezou in the Mega daily series, "Stolen Dreams", continuing her collaboration with the director Dimitris Arvanitis. In parallel with the daily series, in 2014 she participated in an episode of "Do not start the murmur" and starred in the Cypriot drama series "The Ring of Fire".[3] In the 2015–2016 season, she starred in the comedy "The Worst Week of My Life" (directed by Stefanos Blatsou), along with Makis Papadimitriou, Arietta Moutousi and Gerasimos Skiadaresis.[4]

From 2016 to January 2018, Oikonomakou starred in the Alpha TV series, "Ela sti thesi mou" playing the role of Faia Stathatou, but left due to pregnancy in the middle of the second season.[5] she returned to the series in October 2018 at the beginning of the third season. Her presence in the series continued for the fourth consecutive season.[6]

In November 2020, she appeared as a guest art director at Greece's Next Top Model with Maria Synatsaki for the advertising of their company, Project S.O.M.A.

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(s) 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 Lead role / 14 episodes
2009 My Beloved Neighbours Danae 1 episode
2009-2012 The life of the other woman Xenia Pappa Lead role / 401 episodes
2011-2015 Stolen Dreams Chrysa Maltezou Lead 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 Lead role / 122 episodes
2015-2016 The Worst Week of my Life Melina Korniliadi Lead role / 7 episodes
2016 MadWalk - The Fashion Music Project Herself (performance) TV special
2016-2021 On my shoes Fay Stathatou Lead role / 800 episodes
2020 Greece's Next Top Model Herself Episode: "Art Director's Show (season 5)"
2022 The Masked Singer Greece Herself (judge) season 1

Film

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

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.[7] 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.[8] On 8 June 2021, their daughter Sienna-Ilektra was born.[9]

References

  1. "Αθηνά Οικονομάκου: "Αν την ψώνιζα θα έτρωγα σφαλιάρα από τους δικούς μου"". protothema.gr (in Greek). 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  2. "Αθηνά Οικονομάκου: Στο Mega δεν με ήθελαν για τη Ζωή της Άλλης". eleftherostypos.gr (in Greek). 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  3. "Αποκλειστικό: Σε αυτό το σίριαλ έκλεισε τελικά η Αθηνά Οικονομάκου–Όλες οι λεπτομέρειες". peoplegreece.com (in Greek). 2015-09-24. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  4. ""Η χειρότερη εβδομάδα της ζωής μου" η νέα κωμική σειρά του Mega". in.gr (in Greek). 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
  5. "Η Αθηνά Οικονομάκου αποχωρεί λόγω εγκυμοσύνης από το "Έλα Στη Θέση Μου"! Η συγκίνηση την τελευταία ημέρα γυρισμάτων". fthis.gr (in Greek). 2017-12-18. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  6. "Αθηνά Οικονομάκου: Στα τελευταία γυρίσματα του "Έλα στη θέση μου" για φέτος". bizznews.gr (in Greek). 2019-05-27. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  7. "Παντρεύτηκε κρυφά στο Γύθειο η Αθηνά Οικονομάκου". Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  8. "Γέννησε η Αθηνά Οικονομάκου! Αποκλειστικές εικόνες Star από το μαιευτήριο". Star.gr. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  9. "Γέννησε η Αθηνά Οικονομάκου -Οι πρώτες φωτογραφίες". iefimerida.gr. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
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