Contouri, a Greek immigrant to Australia has had starring roles in Australian films and played guest and recurring roles in various television series, including being a regular cast member of music program Kommotion. She is best known as nurse Tracey Wilson in the soap opera Number 96 in 1974–1975. In the story Tracey was ultimately revealed to have been a sado-masochist and a serial killer, the infamous "Pantyhose Strangler".
She later appeared in The Sullivans as Melina Tsangarakis, who married