Kyveli
Acting
July 13, 1888
Died May 26, 1978 (89 years old)
Smyrna, Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire [now Ismir, Turkey]
2
Acting Credits
Biography
Kyveli (full name: Kyveli Adrianou) (Greek: Κυβέλη Αδριανού, 1888 - 1978), was one of the greatest Greek stage actresses and for many years dominated together with her contemporary Marika Kotopouli. She was born in Smyrna and from her infancy she was under the protection of Demetrios Leonardos (a senior civil servant) and her adoptive parents, the shoemaker Anastasios Adrianou and his wife Maria, who worked at the Leonardou house and who had found the little Kyveli exposed in 1890, with a pendan...
