[1] Damvergi was born in Athens in 1926, her origin is from Rethymno, her mother Chrysa was an actress and her father was a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

[4] Her first real role, however, was at the age of 5, specially written for her by Spyros Melas in his play Dad is Educating, where she achieved great success playing alongside Vassilis Logothetides and the Mousouris couple at the "Aliki" theater.

[5][6] Damvergi studied for many years at the classical ballet school of the Royal (now National) Theater and others.

Her post-war membership in the KKE led to her arrest in 1947 from the theater, while appearing in the revue "To pardalo katsiki", and to her displacement for six months in Icaria.

[8] They had a son named Christos who at the age of 13, was seriously injured by an explosion in a chemistry experiment.