Biography
Angeliki Papoulia was born in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Athens University (Theatre Studies) and the "Empros" Theatre Drama School in 2000. She speaks English and French. She has starred in the following films: Matchbox (Kiki) Dir. Yiannis Economides 2002. Dogtooth (Older daughter) Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos which won the "Prix Un Certain Regard" at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film) at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011. Alps (Nurse...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Strangers' Case
2025
as Helena
Over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare collaborated with others on a play about the historical figure Sir Thomas More. In it, he wrote a speech ...

To a Land Unknown
2025
as Tatiana
The stakes couldn't be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake pas...

Touched
2024
Maria, a caregiver, undergoes a transformative journey when she encounters Alex, a paraplegic resident. They embark on a forbidden relationship, fuele...

Arcadia
2024
as Katerina
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in...

Shooting Blanks
2023
as Christina
All Vida wants is a baby. Instead, she is trying not to lose her mind as she juggles the men in her family - her sexist grandfather, her infertile hus...

Voices in Deep
2023
as Gloria
Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this bracing, humanisti...

My Mother Is a Saint
2023
"My name is Simeon the Madman. From now on, I will only speak my true language. I will go back to the city I remember and with the power of God, I wil...

Patchwork
2023
as Chara
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, s...

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023
as Ida
Ida lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she becomes fascinated with the French Foreign Legion and de...

Silence 6–9
2022
Aris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world, the two solitary souls gradually sta...

Cavewoman
2022
as Cavewoman
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Insp...

The City and the City
2022
as Sarina
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and pr...

A Little Love Package
2022
Vienna, 2019 – the end of an era. The smoking ban in public places means that a part of Kaffeehaus culture has disappeared. Of all moments, this is th...

Green Sea
2021
as Anna
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets ...

Cryptozoo
2021
as Phoebe (voice)
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them...

Amulet
2020
as Miriam
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he st...

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
2019
as Elisabeth
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is...

Pity
2018
as Woman at Hospital
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke ...

A Manifesto for the Un-communal
2017
A documentary, a video-diary and a propaganda piece for the “lawless, those without hearth, nor clan” (The Iliad, ΙX,63).

The Lobster
2015
as Heartless Woman
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partne...

A Blast
2014
as Maria
Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of t...

Alps
2011
as Nurse
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, frien...

Alps
2011
Co-Producer
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, frien...

Homeland
2010
Thanks
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.

Dogtooth
2009
as Older Daughter
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless h...

Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
2008
as Georgia
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to...

False Alarm
2007
Thanks
Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robber...

Matchbox
2003
as Kiki
Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time with his business partner on a particular decision as to opening a new business; and he's al...

Alexandria
2001
Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tel...

Sleepy Lights
2001
In a small town, Nontas has a radio show and through it he affects the lives of the residents.
Exoristoi
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as Anna
Anna and Philip, separated for a year, arrive at a remote island to sort out their marriage and the future of their two children. Anna, firm in her lo...