Irene Papas

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece, 1926-09-03

Died: 2022-09-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Fallen Angels	Liana	60
2	1951	Dead City	Lena	60
3	1953	The Unfaithfuls	Luisa Azzali	59
4	1953	The Man From Cairo	Yvonne Lebeau	50
5	1953	Vortice	Clara	70
6	1954	Theodora, Slave Empress	Faidia	59
7	1954	Attila	Grune	53
8	1954	The Missing Scientists	Gina	33
9	1956	Tribute to a Bad Man	Jocasta Constantine	70
10	1959	Bouboulina	Laskarina Bouboulina	70
11	1959	Pssst ... girls!	Eleni	70
12	1959	The Lake of Sighs	Frosyni	56
13	1961	The Guns of Navarone	Maria Pappadimos	73
14	1961	Antigone	Antigone	76
15	1962	Electra	Elektra	71
16	1964	The Moon-Spinners	Sophia	57
17	1964	Zorba the Greek	Widow	74
18	1966	The Steps	Joana	0
19	1966	Trap for the Assassin	Julia de Noirville	54
20	1967	The Desperate Ones	Ajmi	0
21	1967	We Still Kill the Old Way	Luisa Roscio	66
22	1967	Witness Out of Hell	Lea Weiss	67
23	1968	Odissea	Penelope	77
24	1968	The Brotherhood	Ida Ginetta	59
25	1969	Behold Man - The Survivors	Anna	25
26	1969	Z	Hélène, wife of the Deputy	78
27	1969	A Dream of Kings	Caliope	50
28	1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Queen Catherine	71
29	1971	The Trojan Women	Helen	63
30	1971	Oasis of Fear	Barbara Slater	56
31	1971	Roma bene	Elena Teopoulos	60
32	1972	The Murder of Julius Caesar	Calpurnia	0
33	1972	N.P. - The Secret	Casalinga	68
34	1972	Don't Torture a Duckling	Dona Aurelia Avallone	73
35	1973	1931: Once Upon a Time in New York	Donna Mimma	0
36	1973	The Battle of Sutjeska	Borina majka	63
37	1974	Bambina	Raimonda Spina	50
38	1974	Moses the Lawgiver	Zippora	59
39	1976	The Message	Hind	72
40	1977	Blood Wedding	La mère	50
41	1977	Iphigenia	Klytaimnistra	70
42	1979	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Giulia Venere	71
43	1979	Bloodline	Simonetta Palazzi	49
44	1979	Ring of Darkness	Raffaella	51
45	1981	L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...	La Signora	48
46	1981	Lion of the Desert	Mabrouka	73
47	1982	The Balad of Mamelouk	Mamluk's Mother	40
48	1983	The Deserter	Mariangela	0
49	1983	Erendira	Grandmother Amadis	61
50	1984	Afghanistan For What?		0
51	1985	Into the Night	Shaheen Parvici	65
52	1985	The Assisi Underground	Mother Giuseppina	52
53	1987	A Child Called Jesus	Old Maria	66
54	1987	Sweet Country	Mrs. Araya	48
55	1987	Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Madre de Angela	74
56	1987	High Season	Penelope	53
57	1989	Plato's Banquet	Diotime	52
58	1989	Island	Marquise	52
59	1992	Up, Down and Sideways	Μαρία	42
60	1993	Lettera da Parigi	Gina	0
61	1993	Un Amore Rubato		0
62	1994	Jacob	Rebekka	65
63	1996	Party	Irene	63
64	1997	The Odyssey	Anticleia	0
65	1998	Inquietude	Mother	64
66	1999	Yerma	Vieja pagana	35
67	2001	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Drosoula	60
68	2001	...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό	Elena Michailovna	50
69	2003	A Talking Picture	Helena	67
70	2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self (archive footage)	0
71	2021	1821 at the Cinema	(archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
2	1954	Climax!	Maxanne York	33
3	1968	The Odyssey	Penelope	89
4	1974	Moses the Lawgiver	Zippora	0
5	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
6	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
7	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
8	1987	Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus	Old Maria	100
9	1988	La Valise en carton	Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda	10
10	1989	Oceano	Aurelia Perdomo	50
11	1997	The Odyssey	Anticleia	72
12	2002	Short Cuts	Pensioner	0

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