Elda Panopoulou ( el, Έλντα Πανοπούλου) is a Greek comedian, best known for her role as "Haroula Peponaki" in the Greek sitcom ''

To Retire To Retire (Το Ρετιρέ; English: The Penthouse) was a very popular Greek sitcom that aired from 1990 to 1992 on the Greek channel Mega. It was written and directed by Yiannis Dalianidis. Characters The main character is Katerina Sofianou, pl ...

'' (The Penthouse).

Early life

Panopoulou was born in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

in the early 1960s. Her two parents were teachers; they owned their own school.

Career

Her first appearance was in a Greek romance series, titled "Alithines Istories", alongside Giorgos Kimoulis and Martha Karagianni in 1984. The ratings were low and after 6 episodes it was cancelled. In 1991 she did her break through as the nervous but caring operator in the Greek sitcom

. After a couple more comedy sitcoms, ''Panopoulou'' started to present her own show in the public television. Panopoulou starred in two more series; "An Thimitheis to Oneiro Mou" and "Jenny kai Evanthia". Both of them were failures and since 2004 she has not acted on television. She dedicated herself to comedy theatre and a few years ago, in 2005 she created her very own theatre school, ''Melissa Theatre School''. In 2007, she did a guest appearance on the popular Greek sitcom ''To Kokkino Domatio'', aired on

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