Zorz Sarri

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Aliases: Ζωρζ Σαρρή

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Athens, Greece

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Movie Involvements: 9

TV Involvements: 3

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Biography

Georges Sari (Greek: Ζωρζ Σαρή) or Zorz Sari (born Georgia Sarivaxevani 22 August 1925 – 9 June 2012), a Greek author and actress, was born in Athens. Her mother was French and her father was Greek from Ayvalik, Turkey. She grew up in Greece, where she attended elementary and secondary school. World War II broke out in 1939 and Greeces' entry on the 28th October 1940 before she could finish her schooling. During the war, Sarivaxevani (later Georges Sari or Sarri) joined the Resistance and fought with the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON). Looking back on that era, she herself noted that “the years during the Nazi occupation were a time of happiness and freedom. We went from being miserable to happy because we chose the road of life, even if death had a place there as well. We grieved and rejoiced all together, but we were not afraid. There was one goal: liberation”. She graduated while Greece was still under Nazi occupation and began taking acting lessons at Dimitris Rontiris' drama school. Georges Sari was injured during the Greek Civil War, which followed right after World War II, suffering wounds to her hand and foot from a bomb explosion. She received treatment at Aghia Olga Hospital. In 1947, she was forced to leave for Paris in exile. She worked various jobs while living there, while also enrolling as a student at the Charles Dullin School of Dramatic Art. Sari returned to Greece together with her family in 1962 and continued acting in the theater until the rise of the Military junta, at which point she decided along with other actor acquaintances to engage in passive resistance and no longer act in the theater. That summer, deprived as she was of any means of expression, she wrote her first novel – The Treasure of Vaghia – which started off like a game together with the children who surrounded her. Sari decided to dedicate her life to writing: “In writing, I discovered all that I could not find in the theater, perhaps because I was not a leading lady or perhaps because I was not in a position to choose the roles that the producer or director would select for me. I now bear the full responsibility for my books. I do what I want; what I can.” She wrote numerous books. In 1994 she won the Best Children Literature book award for her book Ninet (which was a semi-autobiography of her sister). In 1995 and 1999 she was awarded with the Greek Cycle of Books. In 1988 she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Furthermore, as an actress, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Sari died in Athens on 9 June 2012, aged 87.[3]

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2017	(Archive Footage)	Alki’s Long Walk 2017-11-03 Movie
1990	βασίλισσα Όλγα	Ακριβή μου Σοφία 1990-12-20 TV Show
1989	N/A	Φανή 1989-01-01 TV Show
1988	N/A	Birth City 1988-03-24 Movie
1982	N/A	Οι απόμαχοι 1982-09-18 TV Show
1980	N/A	Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 1980-03-03 Movie
1976	N/A	Happy Day 1976-09-01 Movie
1973	N/A	The Protectors 1973-09-29 Movie
1965	Lady Peterson	The Island of Aphrodite 1965-09-01 Movie
1964	Mrs. Kastrioti	Treason 1964-06-08 Movie
	Lina Hatzinikoli	I leave with Bitterness in Foreign Countries 1964-02-01 Movie
1962	Ariadne	Phaedra 1962-05-25 Movie
	N/A	Triumph 1962-01-01 Movie
1960	Thaleia Halkia	Murder Backstage 1960-09-01 Movie
1958	Eleni Papadatou	The Man on the Train 1958-06-11 Movie
	Rena	A Matter of Dignity 1958-02-10 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv