Eleni Zafeiriou
Acting • Born 1916-01-01 – Died 2004-09-02
Biography
Eleni Zafeiriou (Greek: Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, 1916 – 2 September 2004) was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1951 and 1996. She was born in Larissa, Greece, and died in Athens. She was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made his stage debut in 1936 in the play Before Sunset by Gerhard Hauptmann, which was staged at the National Theatre. She played dozens of roles, mainly in the classical repertoire. The most important of these were the roles of Queen Margaret in Richard III, the goddess Athena in Iphigenia, Atossa in The Persians, Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, Goneril in King Lear, the nurse in Medea, Antigone in Oedipus at Colonus, Tecmissa in Ajax, Sarah in The Sacrifice of Abraham, Roncalina in The King, etc. She had excelled in cinema in exceptional roles, with wonderful acting skills, embodying the simplicity of women of the popular classes, such as Bitter Bread, Little City, The Lake of Desire, etc. In most of the films she participated in, she played the mother of the protagonists. On television, the role of Kambouritsa remained characteristic, which she performed in the series Christ is Crucified Again in the 1970s. In addition, she participated in the dubbing of some cartoons. Specifically, she gave her voice to the witch from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Lady Klossa from the film Robin Hood. In 1991, Eleni Zafeiriou's book entitled What Should I Remember First, Mother, was published by Odos Panos Publications. She died at the People's Hospital of Athens after a battle with successive strokes and was buried at the Chalandri Cemetery in a close family circle.
Filmography
93 credits
From Jerusalem with love
Movie • 1967
The steps of life
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Zarlati
Miss Manager
Movie • 1964
Loukia Samiotaki
A Girl in Black
Movie • 1956
Froso
Test
Movie • 1966
Lena
The big secret
Movie • 1963
μητέρα Χριστίνας
Lily of the Harbor
Movie • 1952
Martha
A Matter of Dignity
Movie • 1958
Katerina
Sky
Movie • 1962
Lieutenant Natassa
Movie • 1970
Natassa's Mother
A girl different from the others
Movie • 1968
The Auntie from Chicago
Movie • 1957
Efterpi Barda
Mrs. Midwife
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Bekou (Lykourgos' wife)
Wake up Vassili
Movie • 1969
Antigoni Vasilaki
Η απολύτρωση
Movie • 1961
The cry of truth
Movie • 1971
The Antijealous
Movie • 1968
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
Movie • 1956
Anna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou)
Groom from London
Movie • 1967
Mary's Mother
The Trip
Movie • 1962
mitera tis Marinas
The Decline
Movie • 1961
Ελισάβετ Νικολάου
The Mistress of the Plain
Movie • 1971
Nomos 4000
Movie • 1962
Anna Oikonomou
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
Movie • 1967
I Love Only You
Movie • 1970
Men Know How to Love
Movie • 1971
Bitter Bread
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Lyberi
A woman's sacrifice
Movie • 1969
Erotic Stories
Movie • 1959
Smaragdi
The Avenue of Hate
Movie • 1968
Stamos' mother
Restless youth
Movie • 1963
The Seal of God
Movie • 1969
Andreas' mother
The hour of justice
Movie • 1967
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
Movie • 1968
The Eagle of the Enslaved
Movie • 1970
Jenny Jenny
Movie • 1966
Matina Skoutari
Face to Face with Death
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Athanasiou
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Movie • 1969
Fani Karatzoglou
For Honor and for Love
Movie • 1969
The Unknown
Movie • 1954
Ρόζα
A Man with a Conscience
Movie • 1969
Slum, my love
Movie • 1969
Humbled And Dejected
Movie • 1968
I lived a monk without love
Movie • 1971
Egoism
Movie • 1964
Giorgos' Mother
The Lady and the Tramp
Movie • 1968
Lefteris' mother
Dead City
Movie • 1951
Gianna
Love and Blood
Movie • 1968
Aliki Argouzi
The Refugee
Movie • 1969
Despoina Skoutari
We despised My Sweetness
Movie • 1965
Fonda's mother
Open Sea
Movie • 1954
Astrapogiannos
Movie • 1970
Giannos' Mother
Hours of love, hours of war
Movie • 1970
Maria
Aspasia's dollars
Movie • 1967
Aspasia
My Bitter Love
Movie • 1964
In the shadow of the other woman
Movie • 1964
A Woman's Past
Movie • 1968
Despina Moutousi
The Heart of a Tramp
Movie • 1968
The Acacia Road
Movie • 1954
Unfair curse
Movie • 1967
The Lagoon of Desire
Movie • 1957
The Enemy of the People
Movie • 1972
Leni
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
Movie • 1959
Tzavelaina
Love that time does not fade
Movie • 1966
The one that didn't bend
Movie • 1968
I'm not selling my heart
Movie • 1966
Stefanos' mother
Sometimes even the strong cry
Movie • 1967
Angeliki
The Lake of Sighs
Movie • 1959
Ayah
Sunday's dream
Movie • 1970
Hearts in the storm
Movie • 1963
I loved a bum
Movie • 1971
Maria
The last goodbye
Movie • 1969
Athina
The Poor Child
Movie • 1965
Maria
The Immigrant
Movie • 1965
Venus the girl who hurt
Movie • 1968
The Devastated
Movie • 1966
Wrecks Of Life
Movie • 1959
The sun-born
Movie • 1971
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
Movie • 1971
Soldiers Without Uniform
Movie • 1960
Damned love
Movie • 1968
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
Movie • 1968
Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
Movie • 1965
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
Movie • 1970
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
Movie • 1969
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
Movie • 1972
Cyprus in flames
Movie • 1964
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
Movie • 1968
Η Λυγερή
Movie • 1968
I want to live in the sun.
Movie • 1966
Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας
Movie
Μητέρα
O Hristos xanastavronetai
TV • 1975
Μάρθα
Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
TV • 1996
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