Irene Papas

L'actrice grecque Irène Papas, qui s'est éteinte mercredi à l'âge de 93 ans, est devenue célèbre après ses apparitions remarquées dans des films de renommée ...

"Avant je ne pouvais pas aimer ou élever (un enfant). Appelons cela une longue relation", avait-elle raconté au journal italien Corriere della Sera. Lee Thompson, dans lequel elle joue auprès de Gregory Peck, David Niven et Anthony Quinn, a été un des rôles les plus marquants de sa carrière. "Au contraire, cela a détruit ma vie privée. "J'ai quitté la Grèce pour découvrir où le meilleur jeu d'acteurs se trouvait. En 2004, elle révéla avoir eu une longue histoire d'amour secrète avec Marlon Brando dans les années 50.

Papas catapulted to international fame in such films as Zorba the Greek, Z and The Guns of Navarone. She also earned acclaim for her work in classical Greek ...

She was the vocalist on the [1972 song "∞ (Infinity)"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ra2xYKdP8w) by the band Aphrodite's Child (co-founded by Vangelis) — a project that some denounced as too overtly sexual. In Z, director Costa-Gavras' Oscar-winning 1969 thriller about the Greek junta, Papas — who played the widow of a murdered left-wing politician (Yves Montand) — was Papas frequently paired with the Cypriot-born director Michael Cacoyannis, who also directed her in Zorba the Greek. It was 1964's Zorba the Greek, however, that truly brought her international stardom; she played a young widow stoned and then killed by her fellow villagers for taking a lover. Irene Papas, a Greek actress who became famous worldwide thanks to her roles in such films as Zorba the Greek, Z and The Guns of Navarone, died Wednesday at age 96. MGM gave her a contract the following year, though the only resulting film was a 1956 Western called Tribute to a Bad Man, which starred James Cagney.

Irene Papas, the Greek actress and recording artist renowned for her dramatic performances and austere beauty that earned her prominent roles in Hollywood ...

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She appeared in films including “The Guns of Navarone” and “Z,” and gained acclaim for interpreting ancient Greek plays for modern audiences.

Ms. (Ms. Some of Ms. She also found inspiration in singing, ranging from an album of songs by Theodorakis released by RCA in 1969 to background chants in 1972 for the Greek rock group [Aphrodite’s Child.](https://www.loudersound.com/features/apocalypse-and-orgasm-the-crazy-story-of-aphrodites-child-666-vangeliss-cult-masterpiece) Soon after she graduated in 1948, Ms. “She is the image of Greece of all time … In 2001 she appeared as the mother of a betrayed son in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” alongside Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz. In 1977’s “Iphigenia,” director Cacoyannis placed Ms. [“Anne of the Thousand Days”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064030/) (1969); and again with Quinn in “The Lion of the Desert” (1980), set during Italy’s colonial wars in Libya in the 1920s and ’30s. [ Anthony Quinn](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/06/04/anthony-quinn-dies/79a120b0-2807-43af-9d6a-bb30010f32a3/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22), Gregory Peck and David Niven) hesitate to kill a woman discovered to be a turncoat. A trip to the United States in 1954 brought her to the attention of director In 1969’s “Z,” an Oscar-winning film by Greek-born director Costa-Gavras, Ms.

She was best known for commanding movie roles in the 1960s but received the greatest plaudits for playing heroines of the ancient stage.

Her final screen appearances included “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” (2001), in which she played Drosoula, the formidable mother of Mandras (Christian Bale), and “Um Filme Falado” (“A Talking Picture”), Manoel de Oliveira’s 2003 meditation on civilization, in which she portrayed a privileged actress sailing the Mediterranean. “Nazism is back in Greece,” she said, describing the country’s new leaders as “no more than a band of blackmailers.” [she told Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-irene-papas) of The Chicago Sun-Times in 1969, lamenting an unnecessary delay in the scientific revolution. The following year, she was given a seven-year contract by MGM, although she made only one film under it: “Tribute to a Bad Man” (1956), a western starring James Cagney. In 1967, she risked her citizenship by calling for a She was also Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, in “Iphigenia” (1977), the drama of a daughter offered as human sacrifice. On a 1954 trip to the United States, she read a scene from Clifford Odets’s “The Country Girl” for him. But in the same decade Ms. By the time she was 18, she had already played both Electra and Lady Macbeth. In “The Guns of Navarone” (1961), filmed partly on the island of Rhodes, she played a World War II resistance fighter who dared to do what a team of Allied saboteurs (among them Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn) would not: shoot an unarmed woman because she was a traitor. In “Zorba the Greek” (1964), with Mr. He did not know the cause of death, but it was announced in 2018 that Ms.

L'actrice grecque Irène Papas, célèbre pour ses fougueuses apparitions dans des films de renommée internationale comme Les Canons de Navarone et Zorba le ...

« Si vous faites bien votre travail, une carrière vient toute seule ». Les canons de Navarone en 1961, dans lequel elle joue aux côtés de Gregory Peck et d’Anthony Quinn, dans le rôle d’une guérillera grecque au regard sombre, a été un rôle marquant dans sa carrière. Irène Papas « personnifiait la beauté grecque à l’écran et sur scène », a estimé dans un communiqué la ministre de la Culture Lina Mendoni.

Irene Papas, the Greek actress who starred in such films as 'The Guns of Navarone,' 'Z,' 'Zorba the Greek' and dozens of other films, has died at 93.

The film won three Oscars and was up for Best Picture. Born on September 3, 1929, Papas began acting in her teens and was an in-demand star by the mid-1950s. “Magnificent, majestic, dynamic, Irene Papas was the personification of Greek beauty on the cinema screen and on the theater stage, an international leading lady who radiated Greekness,” Minister Lina G.

Greek actress and singer Irene Papas, who gained international recognition starring in classic 1960s films such as "Zorba the Greek" and "The Guns of ...

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