 She studied philology at Athens University, phonetics, music and piano at the Great Conservatory of Athens, but began an acting career at the age of twenty-two in 1925, in Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author".The theatre critic for the "Demokratia" newspaper greeted her performance with the comment that "today the stage has acquired a great actress".At the same time, she also performed in Oscar Wilde's "Salome".