[1][2][3][4] She was born in Pireas and spent many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens.
She received her formal training at IDHEC in Paris and upon her return to Greece she worked as a film critic in various newspapers from 1963 until 1967.
The same year sees the completion of her first short-film creation and subsequent imprisonment by the then recently established Colonels' regime.
Upon her release Marketaki fled abroad, working as an assistant editor in the U.K. and a director of educational films for illiterate farmers in Algeria.
Apart from her three full-length films, she also directed a number of theatrical plays and a television series called Lemonodasos.