Betty Livanou

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.7489

Gender

Female

Birthday

01-Jan-1951

Age

(75 years old)

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Also Known As
  • Μπέττυ Τράτα
  • Μπετυ Λιβανου
  • Μπέτι Λιβανού
  • Μπέττυ Λιβανού
  • Μπέττι Λιβανού
  • Μπέτυ Λιβανού
  • Μπετι Λιβανου

Betty Livanou

Biography

Betty Livanou (Greek: Μπέτυ Λιβανού) was born in Athens, in Plato's Academy, to a family with roots from Asia Minor and Egypt. Before she even finished school, young Betty found herself working in advertising, posing for print ads and acting in film spots, while after finishing school she worked for a year as a model. Although she had been receiving offers to act in films since she was young, she was not particularly interested. However, when, at the age of 20, she was called by Filopoimin Finos and Yannis Dalianidis, everything changed. The two “masters” of cinema had noticed her in a cigarette commercial in which she was pantomiming and had been captivated by her face. And so, without having studied acting, armed with her natural talent, Betty Trata became (with Yannis Dalianidis as her “godfather”) Betty Livanou and joined the team of Finos Film. Before her collaboration with Finos Film, Betty Livanou had only one film to her credit, a brief role (as Betty Trata) in Andreas Katsimitsoulias' "Angels of Sin" (1966). However, her film career took off in 1971, when Yannis Dalianidis directed her in "Sinners", alongside Christos Nomikos. Subsequently, and until 1973, she starred in five more films by Finos Film, alongside big names such as Nikos Kourkoulos (Abuse of Power, 1971), Rena Vlachopoulou (Urgently Wanted Groom, 1971), Kostas Voutsas (Twenty Women and Me, 1973) and Kostas Prekas (The Popular Rebel, 1971). Her participation in “The Sin of Beauty” (1972), again directed by Yannis Dalianidis, alongside Nikos Galanos and Tasso Kavvadia, stands out to this day. With the decline of commercial cinema, Betty Livanou turned to television. She presented children's shows (Our Little Family) and game shows (The Secret of Colgate, Tell the Truth), but her recognition was established when she presented “Candid Camera” (1972) with Danos Lygizos. Later, she also took on leading roles in popular television series such as “The Conspiracy of Silence”, “Suspicions” and “Woogerman”. At the end of the 70s, she returned to cinema with a series of excellent choices. From “A Laughing Afternoon” (1979) and “The Incompatible” (1979), both by Andreas Thomopoulos, to the award-winning “Honeymoon Trip” (1979) and the timeless moving “Oi Apenanti” (1981) by Giorgos Panousopoulos. This was followed by roles in Nikos Perakis' "Arpa Colla" (1982), Apostolos Doxiadis' "Underground Journey" (1983) and George Tsemberopoulos' "Sudden Love" (1984). She naturally remained the muse of her husband, George Panousopoulos, with a constant presence in his films ("Mania" in 1985, "M' Agapas" in 1989). At the end of the 1980s, while she had moved away from acting, she successfully engaged in other activities, such as the creation and marketing of jewelry and accessories. A call in 1990 from the Thessaloniki Film Festival to present an award gave her a new impetus to return to the big screen and abandon her involvement with jewelry. In fact, a few years later she returned to the Thessaloniki Film Festival, not to present but to receive an award for her performance in the film “Age of Assassins” (1993). In addition to cinema, she also returned to the television screen, giving her presence a special dynamic to roles such as “Africa” (1992), “The Path of Love” (1994) and “The Painted Sun” (1996).


Credits

Ο Παράδεισος είναι Προσωπική Υπόθεση Ο Παράδεισος είναι Προσωπική Υπόθεση (2001) Character: N/A
A young scientist, Andreas Karamanolis, starts to follow the singer Katia, who not only sparks off Andrea's revolution but also draws him into her strange world. On Katia's farm, Andreas lives in a totally absurd environment. He seems to live in a dream, but often dreams can become nightmares
Ο Ασυμβίβαστος Ο Ασυμβίβαστος (1979) Character: Anna
A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.
Ένα Γελαστό Απόγευμα Ένα Γελαστό Απόγευμα (1979) Character: N/A
After a long decade of separation, a rising politician accompanies his ex-wife to the airport, thirsting for closure. As both fight with their inner demons, a suicide bomber threatens them. Will they find redemption this smiling afternoon?
Ταξίδι του μέλιτος Ταξίδι του μέλιτος (1979) Character: Christina
Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.
Ο Τσαλαπετεινός του Wyoming Ο Τσαλαπετεινός του Wyoming (1996) Character: Eleni
The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "
Ξαφνικός Έρωτας Ξαφνικός Έρωτας (1984) Character: Ελένη
Still reluctant to call it quits on her dying marriage, a conventional Athenian housewife gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with a successful man. Will this deliciously dangerous affair lead to true love or sharp disappointment?
Πεθαμένο λικέρ Πεθαμένο λικέρ (1992) Character: N/A
In late-1950s Athens, a big sister and her twin brothers sneak in their grandfather's distillery to perform a strange rite. But, how important is the last drop of the rare "Dead Liqueur" to the experimenting adolescents' budding sexuality?
Μια μέρα τη νύχτα Μια μέρα τη νύχτα (2001) Character: Maria
A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night.
Αγαπώ Τη Μαμά Σου Αγαπώ Τη Μαμά Σου (2007) Character: Άλκηστη
The Alceste (Betty Livanos) is a fifty-year woman with two daughters, who still retains the youthful glow of years. The decision to follow her lover to England resulted completely disrupt relations with Mika (Christiana Matzouranis), her great daughter. When Alcestis decides to settle in Greece, wants to make a new beginning with her daughters. But Mika confronts her icily, and never accepted behavior of her mother. A legacy in Galaxidi addressed Alcestis and her daughters, imposing the coexistence of the family. Only that Mika has decided to send a representative to husband, Marino (Haris Romas), a winemaker ... Behind the aggressive attitude of Marino for the charming mother of hiding a strange eroticism to unforeseen development, which causes many comical situations ...
Οι Αμαρτωλοί Οι Αμαρτωλοί (1971) Character: Anna
A young man leaves Thessaloniki and goes to Athens to find a job. But he gets tangled in different situations and gets accused of murder.
Όνειρα γλυκά Όνειρα γλυκά (2002) Character: Eleni
fantastical human story
Τεστοστερόνη Τεστοστερόνη (2005) Character: Bus Driver
Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare
Άρπα Colla Άρπα Colla (1982) Character: Giorgos' Wife
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
Στο Ξέσπασμα του Φεγγαριού Στο Ξέσπασμα του Φεγγαριού (2010) Character: Λεωνόρα
The love of two young people from Crete brings to the fore an old story of a vendetta that separates their families.
Η Εποχή των Δολοφόνων Η Εποχή των Δολοφόνων (1993) Character: Dafni
Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins.
20 Γυναίκες Κι' Εγώ! 20 Γυναίκες Κι' Εγώ! (1973) Character: Betty
A bunch of women dominates Kostas Filipou's life. His mother Smaro and his three sisters: married Rika - who wants to take a divorce -, religious Fanouria and Tzela the student. The last two have to get married. There are also the women who work at the women's lingerie business that he runs, many of whom see him as a potential husband, as well as Betty, a colleague deeply in love with him, whose mother pressures her to get married. When Kostas secretly marries Betty, who rents with her mother an apartment above theirs, Smaro decides to find both of them a mate. She suggests to Betty the neighborhood's electrician- but Kostas finds a way to break the match- and to Kostas a young woman from Veroia- but Betty manages to break the match. The revelation of the couple's marriage relieves everyone and the fact that Betty is pregnant brings the desired peace and serenity.
Μ' Αγαπάς; Μ' Αγαπάς; (1989) Character: Despoina
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
Κατάχρησις Εξουσίας Κατάχρησις Εξουσίας (1971) Character: Eleni
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang. His unorthodox way of acting upsets his superiors, even though they allow him to continue his investigations. When the gang discovers that he is a police officer, he makes him a drug addict, but he manages to detoxify and eventually capture the gang's brain.
Οι άγγελοι της αμαρτίας Οι άγγελοι της αμαρτίας (1966) Character: N/A
A young man with ideals, equipped with a high-school diploma, dreams of a quiet and honest life. Nevertheless, being unable to find a job and facing the problems of unemployment, he gets involved in a ring of thieves. The hoodlums organize a major heist. Lefteris agrees to take part in order to solve his money problems and live happily with his girl. Things, however, do not develop smoothly. The hero, at the last moment, manages to escape and avoid arrest by the policemen, thanks to the help of a girl who works in a cabaret in Piraeus and is in love with him.
Λάργκο Λάργκο (2012) Character: N/A
An unfinished love story between glimpses on wheels.
Οι Απέναντι Οι Απέναντι (1981) Character: Stella Velli
The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...
Να Μ' Αγαπάς Να Μ' Αγαπάς (2003) Character: Junk Woman
A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.
Ο Επαναστάτης Ποπολάρος Ο Επαναστάτης Ποπολάρος (1971) Character: Έλντα Ντιμάρα
Set in the 1880's, a rich young man from the middle class falls in love with the daughter of a local count and sets in motion a series of conflicts with the aristocrats of Zante.
Ζητείται Επειγόντως Γαμπρός Ζητείται Επειγόντως Γαμπρός (1971) Character: Pitsa
A mature woman, a widow with a daughter of marrying age, is trying to rebuild her life, but all the men she approaches are interested in her daughter and not herself. After several failed attempts, she eventually manages to find a man of her age.
Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς (1972) Character: Rena Asteriou
A pageant queen marries o wealthy man,but his mother will do anything to keep them apart.



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