Irene Papas

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Irene Papas and Aimilios Metaxopoulos

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)

Web links

Commons : Irene Papas  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
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