Acting

Stavros Zalmas

Stavros Zalmas (Athens, 30 April 1958) is a Greek actor. He was born on 30 April 1958 in Athens, where he spent his childhood. After finishing school, he studied Economics, while after finishing his studies he started working at the National Bank of Greece. At the same time, while working as a bank employee, he began his studies in acting as he wanted to become an actor. After the end of the first year of his theater studies, he played in Epidaurus in the play “Persians” collaborating with Alexis Minotis. This was followed by the theatrical play “A Strange Interlude” in the winter of the same year. For some time, he worked simultaneously both at the bank and in the theater. In the late 1980s he took part in the film production "The Marbles" while a short time later he participated in the films "Troes" and "The Kiss". In the 1994 season, the series Bold Stories Episode: "Divided Love" and Episode: "Portrait" on ANT1 He made his television debut in the drama series "Africa" on Mega Channel in the 1992-1993 season, playing Alexis Koumenakos. In the 1995-1996 season, he starred alongside Natalia Dragoumi in the drama series "Temptation" and in the 1997 series "A Night Like This" on ANT1. The role that made him particularly recognizable to the general public was that of Father Ioannis in Manousos Manousakis' drama series "Touch of the Soul" on ANT1. There, in the 1998-1999 season, he played a priest who falls in love with the young iconography student Despina Apergi (Theophania Papathoma), getting involved in a forbidden love affair that shocks the local society of Ioannina. The series was a huge success, surpassing 3 million viewers in some episodes.