An extremely talented master of ceremonies, Effie the Greek Hair-Gel Goddess, will have your audience on the edge of their seats.
An icon of Australian comedy, Mary Coustas is best known to her fans as ‘Effie’, the trash-with-flash Madonna of the western suburbs. With a wonderful combination of naivety and clarity, fuzzy logic and shrewd intelligence, Effie is a suburban superstar.
Winner of two awards for Best Comedy Performer, a Logie Award as voted by the Australian public and a Variety Heart Award as voted by her industry peers, Mary Cousta is one of Australia’s best loved character actors and comics.
A graduate from Deakin University, Mary began her career with the innovative Handspan Theatre in Melbourne. An invitation to join the cast of Wogs out of Work saw her create her own characters including the inspirational Effie. Confronting Anglo Saxons (Skips) with the own prejudices, Wogs out of Work became the most successful original Australian theatre show ever produced, breaking box office records and touring nationally for over two years.
Mary and Effie’s other numerous television appearances include Effie Just Quietly (SBS), Good Guys Bad Guys, Water Rats, Wildside, the animated film The Magic Pudding, The Ties That Bind a documentary shot in Greece, a guest appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Australian host of the Eurovision Song Contest, and regular roles on Grass Roots and The Secret Life of Us. |
