Irene Papas
Irene Papas ( Greek Ειρήνη Παππά Iríni Pappá , born September 3, 1926 in Chiliomodi near Corinth as Ειρήνη Λελέκου Iríni Lelékou ) is a Greek actress .
Life
In her career spanning over fifty years, Irene Papas has acted in over 80 films. Her early career in Greece made her famous there, when she - discovered by director Elia Kazan - also appeared in international, critically acclaimed films such as The Guns of Navarone , Elektra , Alexis Sorbas and in the two Oscar- nominated films in 1969 Queen for a Thousand Days and Z - Contributed Anatomy of a Political Murder .
In Greece she is also known as a singer, her best known albums are "Odes" and "Rapsodies", which she recorded together with the musician Vangelis in 1979 and 1986. The collaboration with Vangelis began in the early 1970s with the concept album 666 .
Irene Papas still appears in films (most recently in Umfilms falado - Reise nach Bombay ), but has mostly appeared in the theater in recent years. She lives partly in Greece (where she has partly already built a kind of cultural center of the classical theater school, the “Scholion” (Σχολείον) and wants to expand it further), often in Italy and professionally now and then in Spain, where she at the universities of Tor Vergata (Rome) and Sagunto (Spain), performing Greek tragedies with students and young drama students in the original and national language, thus teaching young people classical drama.
From 1947 to 1951 she was married to the director Alkis Papas .
Filmography (selection)
- 1948: Hamenoi angeloi
- 1953: Infidelity (Le infedeli)
- 1954: Attila, the scourge of God (Attila, flagello di dio)
- 1955: My will is law (Tribute to a bad man)
- 1955: Conspiracy in Algiers (Dramma nella Kasbah)
- 1961: Antigone (Andigoni)
- 1961: The Guns of Navarone (The Guns of Navarone)
- 1962: Elektra
- 1964: The Million Treasure (The Moon-Spinners)
- 1964: Alexis Sorbas (Zorba The Greek)
- 1965: Witness from Hell
- 1966: Two coffins to order (Al ciascuno il suo)
- 1967: Order of Murder (The Brotherhood)
- 1968: The Odyssey (L'Odissea)
- 1968: Z
- 1969: Queen for a Thousand Days (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- 1969: Matsoukas, the Greek (A Dream of Kings)
- 1971: The Trojan Women
- 1972: The fifth offensive - Kesselschlacht on the Sutjeska (Sutjeska)
- 1972: Never torment a child as a joke (Non si sevizia un paperino)
- 1975: Moses (Moses, the Lawgiver)
- 1976: Mohammed - The Messenger of God (Mohammad, Messenger of God)
- 1977: Iphigenia (Iphigenia)
- 1978: Christ only came to Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
- 1979: blood trail (Bloodline)
- 1979: Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the desert (Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the desert)
- 1982: The unbelievable and sad story of the innocent Eréndira and her heartless grandmother (Erendira)
- 1984: The Assisi Underground
- 1985: Into the Night (Into the Night)
- 1986: Chronicle of an Announced Death (Cronaca di una morte annunciata)
- 1989: Island of Women (Iceland)
- 1994: The Bible - Jacob ( Jacob , TV movie)
- 1997: The Odyssey (The Odyssey)
- 2001: Corelli's Mandolin (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)
- 2003: Um filme falado - Trip to Bombay (Um filme falado)
Web links
- Irene Papas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Irene Papas in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Papas, Irene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Papá, Iríni; Παππά, Ειρήνη (Greek); Lelekou, Irini; Λελέκου, Ειρήνη (Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiliomodi , Greece |