Tasso Kavvadia passes away

Actress Tasso Kavvadia, the legendary female villain from the hey-day of Greek cinema, has passed away at the age of 91 and is to be buried at the Athens first cemetery on Wednesday.

She made her name in film by playing the parts of harsh and unforgiving older women that gave the romantic leads a hard time – she was the bad mother-in-law, the unfeeling mother or disapproving sister that tried to prevent things from following their natural course. She participated in some 30 films between 1955 and 2001, her last roles being that of the grandmother in the 2000 film “Beware the Greeks” and the 2002 film “Alexander and Aishe”.

Apart from films, she had also worked in theatre and television, where her repertoire was considerably more diverse, while she also did work in radio and as a journalist and writer.