Meet Athina Oikonomakou’s Parents: Dionysis Oikonomakos and Georgia Oikonomakou

Athina Oikonomakou is a Greek actress, model, and entrepreneur best known for her role as Fay Stathatou on the Alpha TV daytime series On My Shoes, as well as her earlier breakout role as Xenia Pappa in The Life of the Other Woman.

Beyond her acting career, she has built a fashion business through her handmade jewelry line, Allover by Athina Oikonomakou, and her clothing label, Project S.O.M.A., co-founded with Mary Synatsaki.

Athina Oikonomakou was born on March 6, 1986, in Skala, a small coastal town in Laconia, Greece, where she spent her early childhood. She is of Greek ethnicity and was raised in the Greek Orthodox Christian faith, which is the dominant religion in her home country.

She is the daughter of Dionysis Oikonomakos, a naval officer, and Georgia Oikonomakou, a homemaker, and has an older brother named Nikitas Oikonomakos, born in 1979.

She completed her secondary education in Laconia before moving to Athens at age 18 to study at the Agricultural University of Athens. During her second year there, in 2005, she left university to pursue acting, enrolling at Mimí Deníssi‘s acting school, Stage by Mimí Deníssi, from which she graduated in 2007.

Athina Oikonomakou is 40 years old. She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 meters). Romantically, she began dating Greek entrepreneur Filippos Michopoulos in 2013, and the couple married in a civil ceremony on November 18, 2017, followed by a religious wedding in Mykonos in October 2018.

Together, they have two children: a son, Maximos-Spyridon Michopoulos, born in March 2018, and a daughter, Sienna-Electra Michopoulos, born in June 2021.

Their divorce was publicly announced in 2024. Since 2024, she has been in a relationship with Italian-Argentine basketball player Bruno Cerella, with the couple announcing their engagement in June 2025.

Dionysis Oikonomakos

Dionysis Oikonomakos is the father of Athina Oikonomakou. He served as a naval officer, a career that frequently took him away from home and kept him travelling for extended periods.

As a result, his presence in the family household during Athina‘s childhood was often limited, and she has spoken about how her father’s profession left the family feeling somewhat fragmented during her early years in Skala.

Despite his absences, Athina Oikonomakou has spoken proudly of her father’s efforts to provide for the family, acknowledging the sacrifices he made despite the limitations of his own upbringing.

She has also shared that family holidays such as Christmas often felt lonely and subdued, typically spent with her mother and a few relatives, owing to her father’s naval commitments and, later, her older brother’s life in Athens.

Georgia Oikonomakou

Georgia Oikonomakou is the mother of Athina Oikonomakou. Unlike her husband, she remained at home in Skala, serving as homemaker and primary caregiver while raising her two children.

With Dionysis Oikonomakos often away at sea and Nikitas Oikonomakos eventually relocating to Athens for his studies, Georgia Oikonomakou became the steady, constant presence in Athina Oikonomakou‘s upbringing.

Athina Oikonomakou has described her mother as a striking and impressive woman, and their bond has remained close throughout her life and rise to fame in Greek entertainment.

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