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Sperantza Vrana (Greek: Σπεράντζα Βρανά; 6 February 1928 – 29 September 2009) was a Greek actress and writer. Vrana began her theatrical career in 1943 with touring companies. In 1948 she made her Athens debut at the Metropolitan theatre in the revue Anthropoi, Anthropoi by Alekos Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos, where she performed the song "Το τραμ το τελευταίο" ("The Last Tram"). During the 1950s and 1960s, she became one of the leading performers of Greek revue. She was born as Elpida Homatianou (Ελπίδα Χωματιανού) in Messolongi on 6 February, either in 1926 or 1932. She wrote several books, with the most famous of them being her autobiography Tolmo (Τολμώ, I Dare). Sperantza Vrana died of a heart attack on 29 September 2009, aged 81.