Apostolos Souglakos was born at Maniatika (Pireas/Athens). His father already had 3 daughters so he was really happy to have a son. Apostolos was never a good student. Since then, he wanted to be the strongest and the most honest of all. He never completed his studies at school. Afterwards he started spending his time with sports. He joined a football team for 3 months and at the age of 10 he started going to a gym for boxing. None of these sports seemed interesting to Apostolos. Soon he became a wrestler and this gave him the opportunity to become famous and travel across Europe, Africa and the USA. During the early 60s, Apostolos started taking small roles in movies. As he says, he has taken part in more than 60 movies. The golden age of his career was undeniably the decade of 1980. In 1984 he got the chance to play in a movie as the leading actor. This movie was Ta katharmata (1984), a movie that was a big hit for its time. The next year he did To remali tis Athinas (1987), a shocking exploitation film for the Greek standards at the time. Afterwards he did 3 videomovies, which were also great.

When the video-era was over in Greece, he returned to what he knows best: Wrestling. In the meanwhile he never stopped appearing in TV-shows and series. In 2000 he decided to take his chances at music with his debut CD entitled "Rapismata".

2002 marked his return to the movies with Ta remalia (2003), a film that continues the fine tradition of Souglakos' movies.

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