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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

A Dream of Kings

1969
as Caliope

A Talking Picture

2003
as Helena

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969
as Rainha Catarina de Aragão

Antigone

1961
as Antigone

Anxiety

1998
as Mother

Attila

1954
as Grune

Bambina

1974
as Raimonda Spina

Blood Wedding

1980
as La mère

Bloodline

1979
as Simonetta Palazzi

Bouboulina

1959
as Laskarina Bouboulina

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

2001
as Drosoula

Christ Stopped at Eboli

1979
as Giulia Venere

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1987
as Madre de Angela

Don't Torture a Duckling

1972
as Dona Aurelia Avallone

Ecce Homo - I Sopravvissuti

1969
as Anna

Electra

1962
as Elektra

Erendira

1983
as Grandmother Amadis

Hamenoi angeloi

1948
as Liana

High Season

1987
as Penelope

I limni ton stenagmon

1959
as Frosyni

I'll Take Her Like a Father

1974
as Raimonda Spina

Into the Night

1985
as Shaheen Parvici

Iphigenia

1977
as Klytaimnistra

Island

1989
as Marquise

Jacob

1994
as Rebekka

L'assistente sociale tutto pepe

1981
as La Signora

La valise en carton

1988
as Maria Amelia

Le banquet

1989
as Diotime

Lion of the Desert

1981
as Mabrouka

Moses the Lawgiver

1974
as Zipporah

N.P. il segreto

1971
as Housewife

Oasis of Fear

1971
as Barbara Slater

Ocean

as Aurelia Perdomo

Odissea

1968
as Penelope

Party

1996
as Irene

Piazza pulita

1973
as Donna Mimma

Psit... koritsia!

1959
as Eleni

Ring of Darkness

1979
as Raffaella

Roma bene

1971
as Elena Teopoulos

Sarâb

1982
as Mamlúkova matka

Sweet Country

1987
as Mrs. Araya

The Assisi Underground

1985
as Mother Giuseppina

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973
as Borina majka

The Brotherhood

1968
as Ida Ginetta

The Desperate Ones

1967
as Ajmi

The Guns of Navarone

1961
as Maria Pappadimos

The Man From Cairo

1953
as Yvonne Lebeau

The Message

1976
as Hind

The Missing Scientists

1955
as Gina

The Moon-Spinners

1964
as Sophia

The Odyssey (1997)

1997
as Anticleia

The Trojan Women

1971
as Helen

The Unfaithfuls

1953
as Luisa Azzali

Theodora, Slave Empress

1954
as Faidia

Trap for the Assassin

1966
as Julia de Noirville

Tribute to a Bad Man

1956
as Jocasta Constantine

Un bambino di nome Gesù

1987
as Maria anziana

Un bambino di nome Gesú

1987
as Old Maria

Vortice

1953
as Clara

We Still Kill the Old Way

1967
as Luisa Roscio

Z

1969
as Hélène

Zeugin aus der Hölle

1966
as Lea Weiss

Zorba the Greek

1964
as Widow

Πάνω, Κάτω Και Πλαγίως

1992
as Maria

Guest Star

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