Born in Ismailia, Egypt, from a Greek engineer father to the national company of Suez and a French mother, it was while coming to study art in Paris in 1939 that she met Gillles Margaritis. When her husband, producer and director of the famous show "La piste aux étoiles" died prematurely in 1965, she resumed production of the show until it stopped in April 1976. Hélène Margaritis dies the following year in 1977.