Irene Papas
Irene Papas (Greek Ειρήνη Παπά - Irini Papá; born September 3, 1926 in Chiliomodi at Corinth, Greece; actually Irini Lelekou ) is a Greek actress. From 1943 to 1947 she was married to the director Alkis Papas.
Life
In its more than 50 -year career, Irene Papas has played in over 80 movies. By her early career in Greece she was there already famous when they - discovered by Elia Kazan - began, including in international, critically acclaimed films such as The Guns of Navarone, Elektra, Alexis Sorbas and 1969 in the two nominated for an Oscar films play along Queen of the Thousand Days and Z.
In addition, it is known in Greece as a singer, her best-known CDs are " Odes " and " Rapsodies " she recorded together with the musician Vangelis in 1979 and 1987. The collaboration with Vangelis began back in the early seventies on the concept album 666
Irene Papas occurs as before in films (most recently in order movies falado ), stood in recent years but mainly on theater stages. She lives partly in Greece ( where they have a kind of cultural center of classical theater school that has " Scholion " ( Σχολείον ), already partly built and will expand even further ), often in Italy and professionally every now and then in Spain, where they at the Universities of Tor Vergata (Rome) and of Sagunto ( ESP) with students and young drama students lists Greek tragedies in the original language and country and thus the youth teaches classical acting.