Zoe Laskari was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1959 she won the title of "Miss Greece" and two years later she played the female lead in Giannis Dalianidis's youth melodrama _Katiforos, O (1961)_. The success of that film made Laskari a star; she signed an exclusive contract with Finos Film, the most powerful Greek studio of the period, and ...
Epitomized the "bad girl" in the Greek commercial cinema of the 60s. Her closest equivalent in the American cinema of the period would be Tuesday Weld.
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Her first movie "O Katiforos" was number one in the box-office in Mexico (dubbed in Spanish) during the 1962-1963 period.
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Her first starring role and big break came in 1961, after Aliki Vougiouklaki the number one box-office star in Greece, turned down the part of Rea in the sexually charged melodrama _Katiforos, O (1961)_(Downhill Road). She got the part and became an overnight sensation in Greece.