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Cybele (Greek: Κυβέλη) was the stage name of the famous Greek actress Cybele Andrianou (Greek: Κυβέλη Ανδριανού).
She was born in 1887 to an unmarried couple. She was of Smyrniot origin and spend the first two years of her life in an Athens orphanage. At the age of two-and-a-half, she was adopted by Anastasis and Maria Andrianou. The family of a famous Athenian lawyer of the time, who had recently lost their only child, helped Cybele's adoptive parents financially. In 1901, at the age of 14, she received her first award for her stage performance.
Career
Cybele was one of the main actresses of Nea Skini from 1901 to 1906. There she had the chance to perform the only roles of her life based on ancient Greek tragedy: Euripides' Alcestis and Sophocles' Antigone. She later became known for her performances in plays of Leo Tolstoy, Carlo Goldoni and Henrik Ibsen. In 1908, she worked for the first time with Gregorios Xenopoulos, who wrote her the theatric play The Red Rock (Ο Κόκκινος Βράχος), based his short novel written of the same name.