The actress passed away Good Good, as Spyros Bibilas announced earlier today (08.03.2024).
The news of Kali Kalo’s death was announced by Spyros Bibilas with a post on social media.
“She left us a little while ago, today, which is Women’s Day, the wonderful Kali Kaloi, the protagonist of the revue of the 40s, 50s, 60s, with such a turbulent life marked by shocking events, as she mentions in her autobiography, “what “the wind took over”, initially wrote the MP and president of SEH.
“With social struggles, with intense trade union action in the actors’ union and in TASEI… The last ten months with actions of TASEI and me personally who honored me with her friendship was transferred to the Athens nursing home where all the staff treated her from the first moment with a lot of love and care and for that we thank them from the bottom of our hearts for all the social work that they carry out with so much responsibility.. Have a nice trip my love…” he wrote regarding it.
The acclaimed theater actress who became known under the pseudonym Kali Kalo – her real name was Kalliopi Dambergi – was born in Athens on December 20, 1926 and came from Rethymnon.
The first years on the stage
Kali’s first appearance in a theater performance was at the age of just three, in Daskalitsa by Dario Nikkontemi, following a decision by Marika Kotopoulis, in whose theater her mother was performing. However, her first real role was at the age of 5, specially written for her by Spyros Melas in his play Dad is Educating, where she achieved great success playing alongside Vassilis Logothetides and the Mousouri couple at the Aliki theater. Such was the success that Atticus sent the director of his Madras, Chr. Dimitropoulos, to ask her mother for cooperation. And when she gave her consent, he wrote Bemba songs and ballads, taught her acting, gave her the nickname “Kali Kalo” and featured her in his shows.
The three marriages
The actress had three marriages: The first as a minor, in 1945, with George Mamalakis, a student at the Icaron School at the time, who was killed a year later, before their daughter Iuli was born. In 1957 she married Dimitris Valmas, whom she had met on a tour in Syros, and with whom they lived in Thessaloniki. the Military Theater bears her name). From 1959 to 1979 she was married to captain Kostas Karanikolas, with whom she had a son, Christos.
The tragic loss of her son
At the age of 13, Christos was seriously injured by an explosion in a chemistry experiment and, although his mother spent all her fortune to heal him, he died in 1988, at the age of 27. For years following the loss of her son, the actress had withdrawn to Astypalaia.
A few years ago it became known that she kept her son’s bones in a trunk at her home in Ano Kypseli.
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