Irene Papas
Actor
Born September 3, 1929 in Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece
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.
Filmography
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
Lettera da Parigi
Gina
Up, Down and Sideways
Μαρία
Island
Marquise
Oceano
Aurelia Perdomo
Plato's Banquet
Diotime
La Valise en carton
Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Old Maria
Sacrée soirée
Self
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
Champs-Elysées
Self
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
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Moses the Lawgiver
Zipporah
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
The Odyssey
Penelope
Z
Hélène
Behold Man - The Survivors
Anna
The Brotherhood
Ida Ginetta
The Odyssey
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
Bouboulina
Laskarina Bouboulina
Pssst ... girls!
Eleni
The Lake of Sighs
Frosyni
Tribute to a Bad Man
Jocasta Constantine
MGM Parade
self
The Missing Scientists
Gina
Attila
Grune
Climax!
Maxanne York
Theodora, Slave Empress
Faidia
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Vortice
Clara
The Man From Cairo
Yvonne Lebeau
The Unfaithfuls
Luisa Azzali
Dead City
Lena
Fallen Angels
Liana