Sperantza Vrana

{{short description|Greek actress and writer}}

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| name = Sperantza Vrana
Σπεράντζα Βρανά

| birth_name = Elpida Homatianou

| birth_date = 6 February 1928

| birth_place = Messolongi, Greece

| death_date = 29 September 2009 (aged 81)

| death_place = Athens, Greece

| occupation = Actress/Writer

| years_active = 1950–1999

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Sperantza Vrana ({{langx|el|Σπεράντζα Βρανά}}; 6 February 1928 – 29 September 2009) was a Greek actress and writer.

She was born as Elpida{{efn|name="Note about the name – elaboration"|"Elpida" (transliterated from the Greek "Ελπίδα") means "Hope" in English,{{cite web |url=https://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1 |title=The word 'Ελπίδα' in Greek-English lexicon |website=WordReference.com |publisher=WordReference |access-date=25 July 2022 |archive-date=4 January 2019 |df=dmy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104075429/https://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1 |url-status=live |language=en }} and in Italian "Speranza".{{cite web |url=https://www.wordreference.com/enit/hope |title=The word 'Hope' in English-Italian lexicon |website=WordReference.com |publisher=WordReference |access-date=25 July 2022 |archive-date=15 December 2021 |df=dmy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215124954/https://www.wordreference.com/enit/hope |url-status=live |language=it }}}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=1058302&lngDtrID=253 |title=Πέθανε από ανακοπή καρδιάς η Σπεράντζα Βρανά |trans-title=Speranza Vrana died of a heart attack |access-date=2009-09-29 |archive-date=2009-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002221655/http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=1058302&lngDtrID=253 |url-status=dead |language=el }}