On June 21, 1944, the actress and model Kiriaki Tsopei, better known worldwide as Corinna Tsopei, was born in Greece.
Corinna was born into a middle-class family and, when she got older, she acquired great beauty, which led her to appear in numerous modeling competitions.
In 1964, she entered the Miss Hellas or “Miss Greece” pageant, which she won. That same year she would appear in the Miss Universe pageant, which she would also win.
This fact made her the first woman to win this type of contest in her country, which gave her great fame, not only in Greece, but also in the rest of the planet.
After her “coronation” as Miss Universe, during the 1960s and 1970s, Corinna received some offers to play roles in various films, such as “Valley of the Dolls”, a film by filmmaker Mark Robson and co-starring with Dorothy Kingsley and the dramatically disappeared, Sharon Tate or in A Man Called Horse, with Richard Harris, as well as the series for the small screen “Daniel Boonne” or “Lost in Space”, among others. .
Shortly after, the actress and model married Freddie Campos, an agent in charge of looking for new talent for the Hollywood factory, until 2007, in which Freddy died.
Corinna from the 1980s on, joined an association that takes care of children with leukemia, which she currently presides over.