Athina Oikonomakou is a Greek actress, entrepreneur, and media personality who has remained at the center of her country’s entertainment industry for nearly two decades. From a breakout daytime soap opera role that took 30 auditions to land, to a jewelry brand with its own Athens flagship store and a fashion label co-founded with a fellow celebrity, she has quietly built one of the most varied careers in Greek show business. Add to that a high-profile marriage, a much-publicized divorce, and a second wedding that captivated Greek tabloids in June 2026, and it’s clear why she remains one of the most-followed names in Hellenic pop culture.
| Quick Facts | |
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| Full Name | Athina Oikonomakou |
| Date of Birth | March 6, 1986 |
| Age | 40 years old |
| Place of Birth | Skala, Laconia, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Ethnicity | Greek |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox Christian |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Parents | Dionysis Oikonomakos, Georgia Oikonomakou |
| Siblings | Nikitas Oikonomakos (older brother, b. 1979) |
| Husband | Bruno Cerella (m. 2026); Filippos Michopoulos (m. 2017, div. 2024) |
| Children | Maximos-Spyridon Michopoulos (b. March 14, 2018), Sienna-Electra Michopoulos (b. June 8, 2021) |
| Profession | Actress, entrepreneur, digital influencer |
| @athinao1konomakou |
Biography
Athina Oikonomakou was born on March 6, 1986, in Skala, a small coastal town in the Laconia region of southern Greece. She is of Greek ethnicity and was raised in the Greek Orthodox Christian faith.
Her father, Dionysis Oikonomakos, served as a naval officer, a career that took him away from home for long stretches and left the family feeling, at times, incomplete. Athina has spoken candidly about how his absences shaped her childhood, describing holiday seasons like Christmas as quiet and subdued, typically spent with her mother and a handful of relatives. Despite those gaps, she has also credited him with doing what he could to provide for the family, and there’s a well-known story of him dancing a zeibekiko at her first wedding, a rare break from his usual reserve.
Her mother, Georgia Oikonomakou, was the steady constant in those years, a homemaker who kept things running in Skala while her husband was at sea. Athina has described her as a striking, impressive woman, and the two have remained close throughout her public life. She has an older brother, Nikitas Oikonomakos, born in 1979, who later left Skala for Athens, leaving Athina at home with her mother during her early teenage years.
She completed her secondary education in Laconia before making the move to Athens at 18 to study at the Agricultural University of Athens. The fit wasn’t right. During her second year, in 2005, she left to pursue acting, enrolling at the Central Stage drama school run by Mimi Dennisi, from which she graduated in 2007.
Career
Athina’s first television credit came almost immediately after graduation, when she joined the cast of the ANT1 period drama Deligianneion Parthenagogeion as Domna Nika, a student at a Greek girls’ school set in the late 1930s. It was a modest start, but it gave her the footing she needed.
Her cinema debut followed in 2008 with the short film An Angel’s Bet, the same year she made her stage debut in The Flower of Levante at the Anesis Theater alongside Spyros Papadopoulos. Brief television appearances continued, including a small role in the romantic drama True Loves and a commercial for the shampoo brand Wash & Go. Later in 2008, she landed her first television lead in the comedy series The Fearless (Oi Atromitoi), playing opposite Giannis Vouros. The show didn’t find its audience and was pulled after just three months, but the experience counted.
The real breakthrough came in 2009, though it didn’t come easily. That year she also appeared in a commercial for mobile phone company Germanos and made a brief cameo in the popular MEGA family comedy My Beloved Neighbors, but the role that changed everything was Xenia Pappa in the MEGA daytime soap opera The Life of the Other Woman. In her own words: “For The Life of the Other Woman I did 30 castings with the director. I think he called me for two months every day and every day he gave me another text. I did not expect to take the role. I had suffered so much.” The channel was reluctant to cast a young, unknown actress in such a demanding lead, but the director kept pushing. When the show premiered on September 27, 2009, it became a genuine hit, running for three seasons before concluding on January 6, 2012.
While still on that show, she began starring in the ANT1 drama Stolen Dreams in December 2011, playing Chryssa Maltezou across 418 episodes of the first three seasons. The role deepened her reputation as a reliable lead capable of handling emotionally complex material. She followed that with a stint on the Cypriot drama The Ring of Fire from September 2014 to May 2015.
The 2015-2016 season brought a change of pace. She starred in The Worst Week of My Life, a MEGA prime-time comedy that was the Greek adaptation of the BBC One sitcom of the same name. It showed she could do laughs as well as tears. In April 2016, she made a memorable cameo as a performer at the annual MadWalk fashion and music event, duetting with rock band My Excuse on a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.
From October 2016, she took on one of the central roles on Alpha TV’s long-running daily series On My Shoes, playing the sharp-tongued socialite Fay Stathatou. She would take two leaves from the show for the births of her children but remained a fixture until April 2021. After a short absence, she returned to screens in 2022 as a panelist on the first season of The Masked Singer Greece on ANT1, then came back to acting proper in 2023 with a role in the ANT1 dramedy The First of Us. From October 2024, she joined the cast of the MEGA family sitcom I Have Children, playing the comically extravagant and out-of-touch mother Ioanna Talage.
On the business side, she launched her handmade jewelry brand, Allover by Athina Oikonomakou, in March 2016. What began as a small collection of unique, individually crafted pieces grew quickly as public demand outpaced what she’d anticipated, prompting a significant scale-up in production. By 2019, the brand was operating a showroom in central Athens, releasing three to four collections per year, and selling worldwide through allover.gr, with physical distribution across Greece and Cyprus through retail partners. In November 2024, she announced the closure of Allover via Instagram, describing it as “her first child” and visibly emotional in the announcement. The brand ran for nine years before she shut it down, with no specific business reason made public. Its classic pieces are being folded into Project S.O.M.A., consolidating her fashion and jewelry output under a single label going forward.
Three months after the Allover Athens showroom first opened, in June 2019, she co-launched a clothing line called Project S.O.M.A. alongside fellow actress and television personality Maria Synatsaki. The label moved fast, reaching stores across Greece and international customers online through projectsoma.gr within its first year.
Her entrepreneurial reach has since extended to Italy. She is a co-founder and International Ambassador of WOME, a Milan-based wellness and lifestyle centre that combines fitness, beauty treatments, nutrition, and psychotherapy under one roof. The venture, registered as a benefit company and located in the Naviglio district, was co-founded with her husband Bruno Cerella, who serves as Head of Sustainability, alongside Italian business partners Marina Rampin and Cristina Teixeira. WOME represents a natural extension of her brand, connecting her profile as a health and lifestyle influencer with a bricks-and-mortar operation in one of Europe’s most fashion-conscious cities.
Filmography
Athina’s screen career spans both television and cinema, though film has been a secondary focus compared to her television work. Her four feature film credits are:
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | An Angel’s Bet (Stihima ton aggelon) | Eva |
| 2013 | A Night in Athens (Mia nihta stin Athina) | Myrto |
| 2015 | Amore Mio | Nefeli |
| 2016 | Magic Mirror (Magikos kathreftis) | Natasa |
Theatre
Athina maintained an active stage career through the first half of her professional life, making her theatre debut in 2008. She stepped back from the stage after 2015, citing the demands of building her family and maintaining a continuous television presence. Her theatre credits include:
| Year | Production | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–2009 | The Flower of Levante (To fioro tou Levante) | Anesis Theater | |
| 2010–2011 | The Cactus Flower (To anthos tou kaktou) | Tonia | Elesia Theater, Thessaloniki |
| 2011 | The Desperate (Oi apelpismenoi) | Athena Theater | |
| 2011–2012 | Method of Infidelity (Le Système Ribadier) | Aggeliki | Veaki Theater |
| 2012–2013 | The Baptisms (Ta vaftisia) | Borta Pomolova | Tour / Kivotos Theater |
| 2013–2014 | The KTEL (To KTEL) | Kivotos Theater / Radio City |
Personal life
Athina met Greek entrepreneur Filippos Michopoulos in 2013, and the relationship would turn out to be the most significant of her life at that point. They married in a civil ceremony in her hometown of Gytheio on November 18, 2017, with Athina already expecting their first child. Their son, Maximos-Spyridon Michopoulos, was born on March 14, 2018, and the couple followed that with a religious wedding on October 6, 2018, held at Michopoulos’s hotel complex in Ornos, Mykonos, attended by family, friends, and notable figures from the Greek entertainment world. For the ceremony, Athina wore a custom mermaid gown by Greek couture designer Celia Kritharioti, crafted from different types of silk lace and hand-embroidered with ostrich feathers, paired with a wedding veil in dotted silk tulle. Their daughter, Sienna-Electra Michopoulos, was born on June 8, 2021.
Divorce from Filippos Michopoulos
In April 2024, Athina Oikonomakou and Filippos Michopoulos announced the end of their marriage through a joint statement issued via a public relations firm. The statement read, in part: “After 10 years together and the acquisition of our two children, we are in the unfortunate position to announce the dissolution of our marriage. Our children are the ones who will unite us forever and as loving parents, we will be constantly by their side with unlimited love.” The couple also urged media to “handle the matter with sensitivity and respect,” with no specific reason for the split made public by either party, and no formal legal proceedings reported at the time of the announcement.
Athina addressed the separation briefly when approached by reporters shortly after: “Life goes on, everything will be fine,” she said. The split came after roughly a decade together, seven years of marriage, and two children. Within weeks, she was reported to be in a new relationship with Bruno Cerella, which she went public with in June 2024.
Later that year, Athina went public with a new relationship: Italian-Argentine professional basketball player Bruno Cerella, who has built a lengthy career in Italy’s Serie A and the EuroLeague while also co-founding the charity project Slums Dunk, which runs basketball and education programs in Kenya and Zambia. Born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, on July 30, 1986, he moved to Italy at 17 and went on to win three Italian league titles, three Italian Cups, a Supercoppa, and a FIBA Europe Cup during his professional career. He is also a co-founder and Head of Sustainability at WOME, the Milan wellness center he launched alongside Athina.
The couple married first in a private religious ceremony in Athens on May 16, 2026, then celebrated with a three-day wedding in Paros in late June. The festivities kicked off on Friday, June 26, with a beach party attended by around 100 to 120 guests from Greece and abroad, including members of Bruno’s Argentine family who traveled especially for the occasion. Athina captioned one of her Instagram stories “My big fat Greek wedding” and another “With my Argentine family.” The ceremony itself took place on Saturday June 27 at the Mar Azul resort, with Athina arriving escorted by her brother Nikitas and wearing a strapless white gown with cut-outs and lace running the full length of the dress, finished with a long veil. Bruno, dressed in white, knelt and kissed her hand as she walked toward him. Athina was visibly emotional throughout, and in her vows she told him he had “embraced her” and “trusted her,” adding: “Thank you so much for belonging to a very large, healthy, beloved family, which I needed so much, more than I thought.”
Net worth
Athina Oikonomakou’s net worth is not publicly documented. A realistic estimate, based on what can be verified, puts the figure in the range of $500,000 to $1.5 million.
Her income sources include over 15 years of continuous leading roles in Greek prime-time and daytime television, acting fees from film and theatre productions, brand partnerships, and commercial work dating back to campaigns for Germanos and Wash & Go in the late 2000s, and revenue from Project S.O.M.A., her clothing label with Maria Synatsaki. Her jewelry brand Allover, which operated for nine years before closing in November 2024, would also have contributed to her earnings during that period, with its classic pieces now folded into Project S.O.M.A. Greek television acting fees at the leading-role level are not publicly disclosed but are generally modest by international standards, which is why the higher figures ($5 million and above) that sometimes appear online are not credible. Her co-founder role at WOME in Milan represents a newer income stream, though the company only launched in late 2025.
