Irene Papas

Born: 1926-09-03

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 Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irene Papas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Guns of Navarone

as Maria Pappadimos
Released: 1961-04-27

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

as Drosoula
Released: 2001-04-18

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in...

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Into the Night

as Shaheen Parvici
Released: 1985-02-22

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he...

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The Message

as Hind
Released: 1976-03-09

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the...

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Anne of the Thousand Days

as Queen Catherine
Released: 1969-12-18

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male...

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Don't Torture a Duckling

as Dona Aurelia Avallone
Released: 1972-09-29

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote...

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Lion of the Desert

as Mabrouka
Released: 1981-04-17

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian...

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Zorba the Greek

as Widow
Released: 1964-12-14

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed...

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Z

as Hélène, wife of the Deputy
Released: 1969-02-26

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a...

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

as Madre de Angela
Released: 1987-05-08

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series...

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Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Giulia Venere
Released: 1979-02-23

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near...

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Bambina

as Raimonda Spina
Released: 1974-09-17

In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday...

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The Moon-Spinners

as Sophia
Released: 1964-07-08

Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less...

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Bloodline

as Simonetta Palazzi
Released: 1979-06-29

A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious...

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We Still Kill the Old Way

as Luisa Roscio
Released: 1967-02-24

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia,...

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The Brotherhood

as Ida Ginetta
Released: 1968-12-01

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead...

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Jacob

as Rebekka
Released: 1994-12-04

Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He...

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Ring of Darkness

as Raffaella
Released: 1979-10-29

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins...

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The Battle of Sutjeska

as Borina majka
Released: 1973-07-03

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The...

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Iphigenia

as Klytaimnistra
Released: 1977-09-10

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their...

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Oasis of Fear

as Barbara Slater
Released: 1971-08-18

Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps...

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The Assisi Underground

as Mother Giuseppina
Released: 1985-05-03

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...

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Tribute to a Bad Man

as Jocasta Constantine
Released: 1956-03-30

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out...

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High Season

as Penelope
Released: 1987-09-01

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A...

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A Talking Picture

as Helena
Released: 2003-08-31

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for...

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Attila

as Grune
Released: 1954-12-27

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps...

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Odissea

as Penelope
Released: 1968-03-24

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus...

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Antigone

as Antigone
Released: 1961-05-31

In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta,...

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Moses the Lawgiver

as Zippora
Released: 1974-12-22

The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received...

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Roma bene

as Elena Teopoulos
Released: 1971-10-08

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

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A Dream of Kings

as Caliope
Released: 1969-12-15

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean...

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Sweet Country

as Mrs. Araya
Released: 1987-01-23

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's...

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Erendira

as Grandmother Amadis
Released: 1983-06-01

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house...

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The Trojan Women

as Helen
Released: 1971-05-01

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son...

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Anxiety

as Mother
Released: 1998-05-19

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...

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Electra

as Elektra
Released: 1962-05-25

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped...

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Theodora, Slave Empress

as Faidia
Released: 1954-07-02

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and...

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The Missing Scientists

as Gina
Released: 1954-12-31

A group of nuclear scientists try to make sure top secret information about atomic weapons does...

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The Man From Cairo

as Yvonne Lebeau
Released: 1953-09-03

"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright...

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L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale

as La Signora
Released: 1981-03-18

Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line....

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A Child Called Jesus

as Old Maria
Released: 1987-01-08

The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King...

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Vortice

as Clara
Released: 1953-11-13

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill...

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Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-07-03

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the...

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Up, Down and Sideways

as Μαρία
Released: 1992-12-01

A prosperous widow with a gay son falls for a young gym instructor in Athens.

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Dead City

as Lena
Released: 1951-12-03

Dead City (Greek: Nekri politeia) is a 1951 Greek drama film directed by Frixos Iliadis. It was...

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Trap for the Assassin

as Julia de Noirville
Released: 1966-06-15

An industrialist is falsely accused of murdering one of his creditors and, because he cannot...

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1821 at the Cinema

as (archive footage)
Released: 2021-10-14

In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first...

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Behold Man - The Survivors

as Anna
Released: 1969-01-01

Having survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons,...

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The Unfaithfuls

as Luisa Azzali
Released: 1953-02-04

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl....

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N.P.

as Casalinga
Released: 1972-07-26

A prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the...

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Party

as Irene
Released: 1996-06-27

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores,...

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The Lake of Sighs

as Frosyni
Released: 1959-01-01

Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is...

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Witness Out of Hell

as Lea Weiss
Released: 1967-06-28

Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was...

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The Balad of Mamelouk

as Mamluk's Mother
Released: 1982-11-26

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to...

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The Steps

as Joana
Released: 1966-01-01

An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past...

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The Desperate Ones

as Ajmi
Released: 1967-01-01

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the...

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Fallen Angels

as Liana
Released: 1948-12-22

To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service....

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Plato's Banquet

as Diotime
Released: 1989-07-27

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to...

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Pssst ... girls!

as Eleni
Released: 1959-01-01

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Bouboulina

as Laskarina Bouboulina
Released: 1959-01-01

The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the...

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Yerma

as Vieja pagana
Released: 1999-02-26

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage...

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Island

as Marquise
Released: 1989-09-09

Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging...

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Blood Wedding

as La mère
Released: 1977-01-01

In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry...

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أفغانستان لماذا؟

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

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1931: Once Upon a Time in New York

as Donna Mimma
Released: 1973-03-03

In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to...

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The Deserter

as Mariangela
Released: 1983-02-02

In this tragic story that has an unrealized potential to tug at the emotions, a woman in...

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Climax!

as Maxanne York
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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The Odyssey

as Anticleia
First aired: 1997-05-18

In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King...

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The Odyssey

as Penelope
First aired: 1968-03-24

Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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Reflets de Cannes

as Self
First aired: 1954-03-25

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Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus

as Old Maria
First aired: 1987-12-03

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La Valise en carton

as Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
First aired: 1988-04-08

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Oceano

as Aurelia Perdomo
First aired: 1989-08-20

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Moses the Lawgiver

as Sefora
First aired: 1974-07-04

A biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and...

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