Nikos Kourkoulos was born on December 5, 1934 in Athens. At a young age he was a football player for Panathinaikos and as he himself said, he coincidentally made the decision to become an actor. Nikos Kourkoulos studied at the Drama School of the National Theater with Manos Katrakis and graduated in 1958.

His first appearance on the stage was in the play “The lady with the camellias” with the Lambeti-Xorn troupe. The continuation of his career proved brilliant as he participated in troupes and impersonated many roles in works such as “Victory Without Wings”, “The Tower” by Franz Kafka, “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, “The Trial” by Franz Kafka, “Never the Kyriaki” (“Ilia Ntarlig”) in the USA, directed by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, a performance for which she won a Tony Award nomination.

In 1972, Nikos Kourkoulos, forms his own troupe and stages “Tango” by Sl. Mosaic. Then he creates the KAPPA theater to house his troupe and stages the works: “Opera de pentara” by Bertolt Brecht, “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov, “Oedipus the tyrant” by Sophocles, “Retaliation” by Hugo Mpetit, “High from the Bridge” by Arthur Miller, “In the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Dale Basserman. In 1988, he directed Pavel Kohut’s “My poor murder”, while in 1992 he will make his last appearance in the theater, with Sophocles’ “Philoctetes”, in Epidaurus.

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