Elisavet Moutafi

Acting

1976-11-13 · Thessaloniki, Greece

Elisavet Moutafi (real name: Elisavet Moutaftsi, Thessaloniki, 13 November 1976) is a Greek actress. She made her first appearance on television in 2000 in the mystery thriller series Secret Routes on Alpha. There she played a young journalist named Niki who investigated various mystery cases that concerned the general public, co-starring alongside Marinos Desyllas and Nikos Psarras. The series ended prematurely in 2001, after only 8 episodes, due to problems between the channel and the production company. In the same year, she joined the leading cast of the second season of the drama series Aerines siopes on Mega Channel, again playing a young journalist who falls in love with one of the pilots of the series. Also in 2001, she starred in the films My Best Friend, directed by Lakis Lazopoulos and Yorgos Lanthimos, and Brasilero. In the 2003-2004 season, she had one of the leading roles in the drama series With a View of the Sea. In the 2004-2005 period, she starred in two television series on Mega Channel. On the one hand, she took part in the social series "Metrao doktoki", where she co-starred with Stavros Zalmas, Stelios Mainas and Eleni Zioga, while on the other hand, she was part of the leading cast of the daily series of Elena Akrita and Giorgos Kyritsis Vera to the Right. The second series was what made her particularly well-known to the general public, playing the role of singer Elsa Saranti. She remained in the series until its completion in the summer of 2007, co-starring with Katia Dandoulaki, Kostas Kazakos, Marianna Toumasatou, Yro Loupi and others. Alongside Vera, she made guest appearances in the series The Stories of Policeman Beka and The Red Room. In the 2007-2008 season, she collaborated again with the Akrita-Kyritsi duo in the comedy If You Were Here I Would Have Divorced You. The following season, she starred alongside Tania Trypi, Maria Antoulinaki and Jenny Theona in the black comedy Who's Catching Us! on Mega Channel. She returned to television in December 2011 with the daily series Stolen Dreams on Mega, directed by Dimitris Arvanitis. In the series, she played Alexandra Valatou, a woman from a wealthy family who learns that her father and husband swapped her child on the day of birth, replacing it with her husband's other child who was born on the same day. She left the series in 2015 at the beginning of the fourth season. In 2014, she appeared in an episode of the comedy series Triches on ANT1. In 2017, she made a guest appearance in the comedy series "Tamam" while in the same year she starred in the daily series Arena on Star Channel. In 2018, she made a special appearance in the daily series Parthena Zoi on ANT1 while in the 2018-2019 season she starred in the drama series Orgi. In the 2020-2021 season, she starred in the daily series To mystiko tis petaloudas on RIK1. In the first half of the following season, she played Sofia Kyriakaki-Hatzi in the Mega crime series To abyro mas eksperts. In 2023, she starred in the ERT1 mini-drama series The Bracelet of Fire, playing Benoita Cohen. In the 2023-24 season, she starred in the drama series The Concubine of Julia on the Alpha channel.