Trivia

Father of 'Ioanna Michalakopoulou'

In 1985 he began his collaboration with the National Theatre, playing from works by Shakespeare to Ionesco, but also ancient dramas and Aristophanic comedies at the Athens and Epidaurus Festivals.

He had won the ""A' Karolos Koun Male Role Award" and the "Emilios Veakis" award.

He has been a professor at the Drama School of the National Theatreand at the Department of Theater at the University of Thessaloniki.

In 1973 he founded the Theater of Satires, staging excellent plays until 1975 with the first performance of K. Mursela's play "Oh, what a world, father".

He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Theater Museum.

Mihalakopoulos studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theater in Athens.

He was a Municipal Councilor in the Municipality of Athens (1974-1986 ).

E had two daughters, Ioanna, who is a director, and Eleni, who is a painter.

Several of the performances he played, he directed himself, such as works by: Aristophanes, Orton, Crocker, Ionesco, Pinter, Tobias, Baron and others.

He first appeared in the cinema in 1964 in the film "The Poor Devils" by Yiannis Christodoulou, but offering himself mainly in the theater, he played in relatively few films, but all of them selected, with roles that left an era.

The actor served as vice president at the Addiction Treatment Center.

In 1981, Georgos Michalopoulos founded the theater workshop in Korydallos prisons where he also taught.

He was a Greek actor and director.

On television from 1972 to 1974, together with Vassilis Diamantopoulos, they were the two faces of the legendary series "He and That", by Kostas Murselas, in which the greatness of his talent became known to a wider audience. A series, which made history, and unfortunately was not saved from the archives of the state television. In 1987 some episodes were filmed in a remake with the same actors.