
Irene Papas
Acting
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.

1821 at the Cinema
(archive footage)

Morceaux de Cannes

Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)

A Talking Picture
Helena

...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό
Elena Michailovna

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Drosoula

Yerma
Vieja pagana

Inquietude
Mother

The Odyssey
Anticleia

Party
Irene

Jacob
Rebekka
Un Amore Rubato

Lettera da Parigi
Gina

Up, Down and Sideways
Μαρία

Island
Marquise

Plato's Banquet
Diotime

High Season
Penelope

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Madre de Angela

Sweet Country
Mrs. Araya

A Child Called Jesus
Old Maria

The Assisi Underground
Mother Giuseppina

Into the Night
Shaheen Parvici

Afghanistan For What?

Erendira
Grandmother Amadis

The Deserter
Mariangela

The Balad of Mamelouk
Mamluk's Mother

Lion of the Desert
Mabrouka

L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
La Signora

Ring of Darkness
Raffaella

Bloodline
Simonetta Palazzi

Christ Stopped at Eboli
Giulia Venere

Iphigenia
Klytaimnistra

Blood Wedding
La mère

Moses the Lawgiver
Zippora

The Message
Hind

Bambina
Raimonda Spina

The Battle of Sutjeska
Borina majka

1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Donna Mimma

Don't Torture a Duckling
Dona Aurelia Avallone

N.P. - The Secret
Casalinga

The Murder of Julius Caesar
Calpurnia

Roma bene
Elena Teopoulos

Oasis of Fear
Barbara Slater

The Trojan Women
Helen

Anne of the Thousand Days
Queen Catherine

A Dream of Kings
Caliope

Z
Hélène

Behold Man - The Survivors
Anna

The Brotherhood
Ida Ginetta

Odissea
Penelope

The Desperate Ones
Ajmi

Witness Out of Hell
Lea Weiss

We Still Kill the Old Way
Luisa Roscio

Trap for the Assassin
Julia de Noirville

The Steps
Joana

Zorba the Greek
Widow

The Moon-Spinners
Sophia

Electra
Elektra

Antigone
Antigone

The Guns of Navarone
Maria Pappadimos

The Lake of Sighs
Frosyni

Pssst ... girls!
Eleni

Bouboulina
Laskarina Bouboulina

Tribute to a Bad Man
Jocasta Constantine

The Missing Scientists
Gina

Attila
Grune

Theodora, Slave Empress
Faidia

Vortice
Clara

The Man From Cairo
Yvonne Lebeau

The Unfaithfuls
Luisa Azzali

Dead City
Lena

Fallen Angels
Liana







