Maro Leonardou

Maro Leonardou is a journalist and author. She was born in Belgrade in 1965. Her career began in July 1984 in the foreign news section of the newspaper "Mesimvrini," where she remained until 1990. With the advent of private television, she worked for twenty years, until 2011, as an editor and chief editor of international news, news presenter, and show host, spending a decade at ANTENNA (1990-2000) and another at MEGA (2000-2011). Her radio experiments took place at ERA 1 (1988-1990), FLASH (2009-2011), and REAL FM (2011-present). Since 2008, she has been collaborating with the Sunday newspaper "Real News." If she hadn't pursued a career in journalism, she would have been a French teacher, as she graduated with a degree in French Philology from the University of Athens in 1987. She has professionally participated as a ballerina in performances (Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia) of the Athens Ballet (De Pian-Metsis) at the Herodion, Lycabettus Theater, Rex, and the Greek National Opera from 1977 to 1983. Her amateur involvement with the piano was at the Athens Conservatoire, where in the 1980s she was a student of Menelaos Pallantios, studying harmony and solfège. She has three children and one grandchild. She speaks, writes, and understands English, French, and Spanish, and is trying to learn Russian. She is a member of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA), and she loves ballet, books, traveling, and dreams.