Acting

Rania Ioannidou

Rania Ioannidou (Athens, 1935 - 2025) was a Greek actress. She was born in 1935 in Athens and studied at the Michalis Kounelakis Drama School (Hellenic Conservatory). She began her career as an actress in 1959 making her film debut in the film Wedding Adventures with a small role alongside Dino Iliopoulos. In 1961 he played in the films Alice in the Navy and Temptation Island. This was followed by the film productions Those Who Forgot God in 1964 and Take My Tear in 1965. In the same decade, she also began appearing in the theater. In 1971 she appeared in the film Manolios Strikes Again and Grammos. In 1973, she starred with Kostas Voutsa in the film Twenty Women and Me. During the same period she voiced the dubbed series Mannix, The Waltons and Maya the Bee on state television. In 1977, she made her television debut in the ERT series The Village Photographer, followed by her appearance in an episode of the series Once Upon a Time. In the early 1980s and 1990s she was a voice actor in popular animated television series including Little Lulu, Candy Candy, D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, Dennis the Terrible, The Smurfs, Sailor Moon and others. From 1985 to 1989, she appeared in a total of ten video films (a genre that was popular in Greece at the time), sometimes with small and sometimes with bigger roles.