Irene Papas

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-09-03 (96 years old)

Deathday

2022-09-14

Place of Birth

Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece

Irene Papas

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 Be...

Acting

1979

Bloodline

as Simonetta Palazzi

1964

1974

1979

Ring of Darkness

as Raffaella

1994

Jacob

as Rebekka

1969

Z

as Hélène, wife of the Deputy

1961

The Guns of Navarone

as Maria Pappadimos

1969

Anne of the Thousand Days

as Queen Catherine

1976

1981

1979

Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Giulia Venere

1964

1968

Odissea

as Penelope

1971

Oasis of Fear

as Barbara Slater

1977

Iphigenia

as Klytaimnistra

1971

1962

Electra

as Elektra

1972

Don't Torture a Duckling

as Dona Aurelia Avallone

1974

Bambina

as Raimonda Spina

1967

1968

The Brotherhood

as Ida Ginetta

1956

Tribute to a Bad Man

as Jocasta Constantine

1954

Attila

as Grune

1987

High Season

as Penelope

1971

Roma bene

as Elena Teopoulos

1982

The Balad of Mamelouk

as Mamluk's Mother

1973

The Battle of Sutjeska

as Borina majka

1989

Plato's Banquet

as Diotime

1987

1989

Island

as Marquise

1953

The Man From Cairo

as Yvonne Lebeau

1985

The Assisi Underground

as Mother Giuseppina

1961

Antigone

as Antigone

1983

Erendira

as Grandmother Amadis

1967

1987

1951

Dead City

as Lena

2021

1821 at the Cinema

as (archive footage)

1972

N.P. - The Secret

as Casalinga

1985

Into the Night

as Shaheen Parvici

1953

Vortice

as Clara

1977

Blood Wedding

as La mère

1992

2003

1953

The Unfaithfuls

as Luisa Azzali

1969

1966

Trap for the Assassin

as Julia de Noirville

1996

Party

as Irene

1998

Inquietude

as Mother

1959

Bouboulina

as Laskarina Bouboulina

1987

Sweet Country

as Mrs. Araya

1948

1999

Yerma

as Vieja pagana

1966

The Steps

as Joana

1959

1959

2008

Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)

1983

The Deserter

as Mariangela

1997

The Odyssey

as Anticleia

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