Irene Papas
Acting • Born 1929-09-03 – Died 2022-09-14
Biography
Irene Papas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, born Eirini Lelekou (Greek: Ειρήνη Λελέκου) 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022)was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording Songs of Theodorakis. Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irene Papas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
84 credits
Bloodline
Movie • 1979
Simonetta Palazzi
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Movie • 2001
Drosoula
Zorba the Greek
Movie • 1964
Widow
Moses the Lawgiver
Movie • 1976
Zippora
Ring of Darkness
Movie • 1979
Raffaella
Jacob
Movie • 1994
Rebekka
Z
Movie • 1969
Hélène
The Guns of Navarone
Movie • 1961
Maria Pappadimos
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie • 1969
Queen Catherine
The Message
Movie • 1976
Hind
Lion of the Desert
Movie • 1981
Mabrouka
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie • 1979
Giulia Venere
The Moon-Spinners
Movie • 1964
Sophia
Odissea
Movie • 1968
Penelope
Oasis of Fear
Movie • 1971
Barbara Slater
Iphigenia
Movie • 1977
Klytaimnistra
The Trojan Women
Movie • 1971
Helen
Electra
Movie • 1962
Elektra
Don't Torture a Duckling
Movie • 1972
Dona Aurelia Avallone
Bambina
Movie • 1974
Raimonda Spina
We Still Kill the Old Way
Movie • 1967
Luisa Roscio
The Brotherhood
Movie • 1968
Ida Ginetta
Tribute to a Bad Man
Movie • 1956
Jocasta Constantine
Attila
Movie • 1954
Grune
High Season
Movie • 1987
Penelope
Roma bene
Movie • 1971
Elena Teopoulos
The Balad of Mamelouk
Movie • 1982
Mamluk's Mother
The Battle of Sutjeska
Movie • 1973
Borina majka
Plato's Banquet
Movie • 1989
Diotime
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Movie • 1987
Madre de Angela
Island
Movie • 1989
Marquise
The Man From Cairo
Movie • 1953
Yvonne Lebeau
The Assisi Underground
Movie • 1985
Mother Giuseppina
Behold Man - The Survivors
Movie • 1969
Anna
Antigone
Movie • 1961
Antigone
Erendira
Movie • 1983
Grandmother Amadis
Witness Out of Hell
Movie • 1967
Lea Weiss
A Child Called Jesus
Movie • 1987
Old Maria
Dead City
Movie • 1951
Lena
1821 at the Cinema
Movie • 2021
(archive footage)
N.P. - The Secret
Movie • 1972
Casalinga
Into the Night
Movie • 1985
Shaheen Parvici
Vortice
Movie • 1953
Clara
Theodora, Slave Empress
Movie • 1954
Faidia
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Movie • 1973
Donna Mimma
Blood Wedding
Movie • 1977
La mère
Up, Down and Sideways
Movie • 1992
Μαρία
A Talking Picture
Movie • 2003
Helena
The Unfaithfuls
Movie • 1953
Luisa Azzali
A Dream of Kings
Movie • 1969
Caliope
Trap for the Assassin
Movie • 1966
Julia de Noirville
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
Movie • 1981
La Signora
The Missing Scientists
Movie • 1954
Gina
Party
Movie • 1996
Irene
Inquietude
Movie • 1998
Mother
The Desperate Ones
Movie • 1967
Ajmi
Bouboulina
Movie • 1959
Laskarina Bouboulina
Sweet Country
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Araya
Fallen Angels
Movie • 1948
Liana
Yerma
Movie • 1999
Vieja pagana
The Steps
Movie • 1966
Joana
Pssst ... girls!
Movie • 1959
Eleni
The Lake of Sighs
Movie • 1959
Frosyni
Il falso bugiardo
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό
Movie • 2001
Elena Michailovna
The Deserter
Movie • 1983
Mariangela
Afghanistan For What?
Movie • 1984
Un Amore Rubato
Movie • 1993
Lettera da Parigi
Movie • 1993
Gina
The Murder of Julius Caesar
Movie • 1972
Calpurnia
The Odyssey
Movie • 1997
Anticleia
Short Cuts
TV • 2002
Pensioner
Climax!
TV • 1954
Maxanne York
The Odyssey
TV • 1968
Penelope
Oceano
TV • 1989
Aurelia Perdomo
The Odyssey
TV • 1997
Anticleia
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
TV • 1987
Old Maria
La Valise en carton
TV • 1988
Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Moses the Lawgiver
TV • 1974
Zipporah
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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