Irene Papas
Born: 1926-09-03 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
- 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
- Un Amore Rubato
- Lettera da Parigi as Gina
1992
- Up, Down and Sideways as Μαρία
1989
- Island as Marquise
- Oceano as Aurelia Perdomo
- Plato's Banquet as Diotime
1988
- La Valise en carton as Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- High Season as Penelope
- Sweet Country as Mrs. Araya
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold as Madre de Angela
- A Child Called Jesus as Old Maria
- Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus as Old Maria
1985
- The Assisi Underground as Mother Giuseppina
- Into the Night as Shaheen Parvici
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
- Bambina as Raimonda Spina
- Moses the Lawgiver as Zippora
1973
- 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York as Donna Mimma
- The Battle of Sutjeska as Borina majka
1972
- Don't Torture a Duckling as Dona Aurelia Avallone
- The Murder of Julius Caesar as Calpurnia
- N.P. - The Secret as Casalinga
1971
- The Trojan Women as Helen
- Roma bene as Elena Teopoulos
- Oasis of Fear as Barbara Slater
1969
- Z as Hélène
- A Dream of Kings as Caliope
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Queen Catherine
- Behold Man - The Survivors as Anna
1968
- Odissea as Penelope
- The Brotherhood as Ida Ginetta
- The Odyssey as Penelope
1967
- Witness Out of Hell as Lea Weiss
- We Still Kill the Old Way as Luisa Roscio
- The Desperate Ones as Ajmi
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
- Bouboulina as Laskarina Bouboulina
- The Lake of Sighs as Frosyni
- Pssst ... girls! as Eleni
1956
- Tribute to a Bad Man as Jocasta Constantine
1954
- Climax! as Maxanne York
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Attila as Grune
- Theodora, Slave Empress as Faidia
- The Missing Scientists as Gina
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