Irene Papas
Born: 1929-09-03 in Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece
Died: 2022-09-14
Known For: Acting
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
2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
- 1821 at the Cinema as (archive footage)
2008
- Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage)
2003
- A Talking Picture as Helena
2002
- Short Cuts as Pensioner
2001
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Drosoula
- ...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό as Elena Michailovna
1999
- Yerma as Vieja pagana
1998
- Inquietude as Mother
1997
- The Odyssey as Anticleia
1996
- Party as Irene
1994
- Jacob as Rebekka
1993
- Lettera da Parigi as Gina
- Un Amore Rubato
1992
- Up, Down and Sideways as Μαρία
1989
- Oceano as Aurelia Perdomo
- Plato's Banquet as Diotime
- Island as Marquise
1988
- La Valise en carton as Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold as Madre de Angela
- Sweet Country as Mrs. Araya
- High Season as Penelope
- A Child Called Jesus as Old Maria
- Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus as Old Maria
1985
- Into the Night as Shaheen Parvici
- The Assisi Underground as Mother Giuseppina
1983
- Erendira as Grandmother Amadis
- The Deserter as Mariangela
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- The Balad of Mamelouk as Mamluk's Mother
1981
- Lion of the Desert as Mabrouka
- L'assistente sociale tutto pepe... as La Signora
1979
- Bloodline as Simonetta Palazzi
- Christ Stopped at Eboli as Giulia Venere
- Ring of Darkness as Raffaella
1977
- Iphigenia as Klytaimnistra
- Blood Wedding as La mère
1976
- The Message as Hind
- Moses the Lawgiver as Zippora
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Moses the Lawgiver as Zipporah
- Bambina as Raimonda Spina
1973
- The Battle of Sutjeska as Borina majka
- 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York as Donna Mimma
1972
- Don't Torture a Duckling as Dona Aurelia Avallone
- N.P. - The Secret as Casalinga
- The Murder of Julius Caesar as Calpurnia
1971
- Roma bene as Elena Teopoulos
- Oasis of Fear as Barbara Slater
- The Trojan Women as Helen
1969
- Z as Hélène
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Queen Catherine
- A Dream of Kings as Caliope
- Behold Man - The Survivors as Anna
1968
- The Odyssey as Penelope
- The Brotherhood as Ida Ginetta
- Odissea as Penelope
1967
- We Still Kill the Old Way as Luisa Roscio
- The Desperate Ones as Ajmi
- Witness Out of Hell as Lea Weiss
1966
- Trap for the Assassin as Julia de Noirville
- The Steps as Joana
1964
- Zorba the Greek as Widow
- The Moon-Spinners as Sophia
1962
- Electra as Elektra
1961
- The Guns of Navarone as Maria Pappadimos
- Antigone as Antigone
1959
- Pssst ... girls! as Eleni
- The Lake of Sighs as Frosyni
- Bouboulina as Laskarina Bouboulina
1956
- Tribute to a Bad Man as Jocasta Constantine
1955
- MGM Parade as self
1954
- Climax! as Maxanne York
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Attila as Grune
- The Missing Scientists as Gina
- Theodora, Slave Empress as Faidia
1953
- The Unfaithfuls as Luisa Azzali
- The Man From Cairo as Yvonne Lebeau
- Vortice as Clara
1951
- Dead City as Lena
1948
- Fallen Angels as Liana