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Irene Papas
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Greek actress and singer (1929–2022)
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Irene Papas (born Ειρήνη Λελέκου) was a Greek actor, singer, film director, and dancer. Her career spanned from 1948 to 2003, with fields of work including acting and music. She spoke Modern Greek and performed as a vocalist. Papas received the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress. Notable roles in her work included Penelope and Catherine of Aragon.
Born in Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece, she held Greek citizenship. Her birth date is listed as September 3, 1929, though other records indicate 1926. She had an unmarried partnership with Marlon Brando and was a relative of Lida-Maria Manthopoulou. Papas died of natural causes due to Alzheimer's disease on September 14, 2022, in Kifisia.
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Film & TV
Acting · Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece
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…
Known for
- 1821 at the Cinema — (archive footage)2021
- Morceaux de Cannes2021
- Il falso bugiardo — Self (archive footage)2008
- A Talking Picture — Helena2003
- Short Cuts — Pensioner2002
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin — Drosoula2001
- ...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό — Elena Michailovna2001
- Yerma — Vieja pagana1999
- Inquietude — Mother1998
- The Odyssey — Anticleia1997
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Greece
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2022
Discography
- Songs of Theodorakis1969
- Odes1979
- Rapsodies1986
- Χαλάλι2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,412
- Total plays
- 38,364
Tags
Irene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years. Irene Papas was born Irene Lelekou (Ειρήνη Λελέκου) in Chiliomodi outside Corinth, Greece. She began her early career in Greece, achieving widespread fame there, before starring in internationally renowned films such as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek, and critically acclaimed films such as Z and Electra. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Irene+Papas">
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Superior Thermal Conductivity of Single-Layer Graphene
· 2008 · cited 12,869x
- NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update
· 2012 · cited 8,427x
- MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease
· 2015 · cited 7,029x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,873x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,585x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Q670537
- Place of death
- Kifisia
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- Modern Greek
- Field of work
- music
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Irene Papas "The Trojan Women".jpg
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- Commons category
- Irene Papas
- date of birth
- 1926-00-00
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- birth name
- Ειρήνη Λελέκου
- end of work period
- 2003-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-09-14
- manner of death
- natural causes
- unmarried partner
- Marlon Brando
- name in native language
- Ειρήνη Παπά
- relative
- Lida-Maria Manthopoulou
- notable role
- Catherine of Aragon
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- date of burial or cremation
- 2022-09-17
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Irene Papas or Pappas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, romanized: Eiríni Pappá, IPA: [iˈrini paˈpa]; born Eirini Lelekou [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.
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