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Irene Papas

Irene Papas or Pappas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, romanized: Eiríni Pappá), born Irene Lelekou (Greek: Ειρήνη Λελέκου, romanized: Eiríni Lelékou; on 3 September 1926), is a Greek actress and singer who has 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) and Zorba the Greek (1964). 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).

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Filmography

Moses the Lawgiver

1974
as Zipporah

Un bambino di nome Gesú

1987
as Old Maria

High Season

1987
as Penelope

Oasis of Fear

1971
as Barbara Slater

A Dream of Kings

1969
as Caliope

Tribute to a Bad Man

1956
as Jocasta Constantine

The Desperate Ones

1967
as Ajmi

Theodora, Slave Empress

1954
as Faidia

Πάνω, Κάτω Και Πλαγίως

1992
as Maria

Into the Night

1985
as Shaheen Parvici

The Guns of Navarone

1961
as Maria Pappadimos

Iphigenia

1977
as Klytaimnistra

Sarâb

1982
as Mamlúkova matka

Z

1969
as Hélène

Odissea

1968
as Penelope

Bloodline

1979
as Simonetta Palazzi

I'll Take Her Like a Father

1974
as Raimonda Spina

Roma bene

1971
as Elena Teopoulos

Le banquet

1989
as Diotime

Hamenoi angeloi

1948
as Liana

Jacob

1994
as Rebekka

Ecce Homo - I Sopravvissuti

1969
as Anna

Lion of the Desert

1981
as Mabrouka

L'assistente sociale tutto pepe

1981
as La Signora

Bambina

1974
as Raimonda Spina

The Missing Scientists

1955
as Gina

N.P. il segreto

1971
as Housewife

Party

1996
as Irene

The Message

1976
as Hind

Ocean

as Aurelia Perdomo

A Talking Picture

2003
as Helena

Psit... koritsia!

1959
as Eleni

The Trojan Women

1971
as Helen

La valise en carton

1988
as Maria Amelia

The Man From Cairo

1953
as Yvonne Lebeau

Ring of Darkness

1979
as Raffaella

Un bambino di nome Gesù

1987
as Maria anziana

We Still Kill the Old Way

1967
as Luisa Roscio

Anxiety

1998
as Mother

Zeugin aus der Hölle

1966
as Lea Weiss

Zorba the Greek

1964
as Widow

Vortice

1953
as Clara

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969
as Rainha Catarina de Aragão

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1987
as Madre de Angela

Don't Torture a Duckling

1972
as Dona Aurelia Avallone

I limni ton stenagmon

1959
as Frosyni

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

2001
as Drosoula

Bouboulina

1959
as Laskarina Bouboulina

The Assisi Underground

1985
as Mother Giuseppina

Trap for the Assassin

1966
as Julia de Noirville

Antigone

1961
as Antigone

Blood Wedding

1980
as La mère

Island

1989
as Marquise

Electra

1962
as Elektra

Sweet Country

1987
as Mrs. Araya

Attila

1954
as Grune

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973
as Borina majka

The Moon-Spinners

1964
as Sophia

Erendira

1983
as Grandmother Amadis

The Odyssey (1997)

1997
as Anticleia

The Brotherhood

1968
as Ida Ginetta

The Unfaithfuls

1953
as Luisa Azzali

Christ Stopped at Eboli

1979
as Giulia Venere

Piazza pulita

1973
as Donna Mimma

Guest Star

Episode Odissea
Ulisse, Nausicaa e Calipso 		1968
Episode Odissea
La distruzione di Troia e l'isola dei Lotofagi 		1968
Episode Odissea
Polifemo e il dono di Eolo 		1968
Episode Odissea
L'isola di Circe e la discesa agli Inferi 		1968
Episode Odissea
Le Sirene, Scilla e Cariddi, l'isola del Sole e il ritorno a Itaca 		1968
Episode Odissea
Ulisse mendico alla corte e la vigilia della gara finale 		1968
Episode Odissea
Vittoria di Ulisse e il riconoscimento di Penelope 		1968
Episode Odissea
Telemaco e Penelope 		1968