Chantal contouri biography examples

Chantal Contouri (Greek: Σαντάλ Κοντούρη; born 8 April 1950), sometimes credited as Chantal Cantouri, is a Greek Australian television and film actress.

She has acted in many films and TV series as well as on stage, with one of her best known roles being in the 1970s soap opera Number 96 as nurse Tracy Wilson (aka "the pantyhose strangler").

Early life and education

Chantal Contouri was born on 8 April 1950 in the village of Agios Georgios, Vion, in Greece, the first of five children to Fotini and Konstantinos.^[1] The family emigrated to Australia aboard the Italian ship Castel Felice in 1954, and settled in Adelaide, South Australia.^[1]

Contouri attended Adelaide High School.^[1]

Career

Contouri started her career as a go-go dancer at a nightclub in Gawler Place in Adelaide city centre; however, she wanted to act.^[1]

She left Adelaide after being verbally abused by a Greek woman on the street, and moved to