Anna Fonsou was born in 1939 in Kaisariani in Greece and grew up in
Tinos. She studied at the drama school of
Dimitris Rondiris. She studied dance with
Rallou Manou and singing with Popi Petrioli. Fonsou made her first theater appearance in 1956 with the troupe of and her first film appearance in 1957 in the movie
Το παιδί του δρόμου (
The Child of the Street). In 1965, she founded
Proskinio together with Alexis Solomos and Aimilios Hourmouzis. In cinema, she played in dozens of films, almost exclusively leading roles, in both dramas and comedies alongside famous comedians such as
Thanasis Veggos with whom she co-starred in several films. In the early 1970s, she also did a series of erotic films, mainly directed by
Omiros Efstratiadis, which are now considered
cult. On television she participated in various series (
The Two Orphans,
The Ragpickers, etc.) and in theatrical performances on the show
The Theater of Monday. She starred at the
Lyric Stage in the
operetta The Apaches of Athens, and since 2001, she has been part of the
National Theatre of Northern Greece. In the
1996 parliamentary elections and the
2000 elections, she was a candidate with the
KKE, and in the
2009 and
2012 elections she was a candidate with the
PASOK in Athens A. In 1997 she founded charitable foundation "The Actor's House" () to provide housing for impoverished actors, of which she is a president. She produces theatrical performances, the proceeds of which are also donated to "The Actor's House". From 1998 to 2000, she served as president of the Greek Actors Union. In 2016 she was awarded the
Nikolaos Karolos prize by the
Academy of Athens for her social work related to "The Actor's House". She was married to theater entrepreneur and civil engineer Kostas Paltoglou, architect Nikos Sofianos, and in 1985 to singer-songwriter and composer
Takis Bougas until they divorced in 1993. == Filmography ==