Eleni Zafeiriou
Acting
Born 1916-01-01
Died 2004-09-02
Larissa, Greece
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Eleni Zafeiriou (Greek: Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, 1916 – 2 September 2004) was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1951 and 1996. She was born in Larissa, Greece, and died in Athens.
She was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made his stage debut in 1936 in the play Before Sunset by Gerhard Hauptmann, which was staged at the National Theatre.
She played dozens of roles, mainly in the classical repertoire. The most important of these were the roles of Queen Margaret in Richard III, the goddess Athena in Iphigenia, Atossa in The Persians, Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, Goneril in King Lear, the nurse in Medea, Antigone in Oedipus at Colonus, Tecmissa in Ajax, Sarah in The Sacrifice of Abraham, Roncalina in The King, etc.
She had excelled in cinema in exceptional roles, with wonderful acting skills, embodying the simplicity of women of the popular classes, such as Bitter Bread, Little City, The Lake of Desire, etc.
In most of the films she participated in, she played the mother of the protagonists. On television, the role of Kambouritsa remained characteristic, which she performed in the series Christ is Crucified Again in the 1970s.
In addition, she participated in the dubbing of some cartoons. Specifically, she gave her voice to the witch from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Lady Klossa from the film Robin Hood.
In 1991, Eleni Zafeiriou's book entitled What Should I Remember First, Mother, was published by Odos Panos Publications.
She died at the People's Hospital of Athens after a battle with successive strokes and was buried at the Chalandri Cemetery in a close family circle.
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Filmography
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Acting
37 credits
O Hristos xanastavronetai
Mrs. Midwife
Bitter Bread
The Trip
Nomos 4000
Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
Love and Blood
Jenny Jenny
The Auntie from Chicago
Miss Manager
Aspasia's dollars
The Lady and the Tramp
A Matter of Dignity
The Lagoon of Desire
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
The Coffee Reader
The Poor Child
Groom from London
Lieutenant Natassa
Wake up Vassili
Sometimes even the strong cry
The big secret
Astrapogiannos
Face to Face with Death
Egoism
The last goodbye
A Woman's Past
Lily of the Harbor
I'm not selling my heart
A Girl in Black
The steps of life
The Enemy of the People
Dead City
Erotic Stories
Test
The Lake of Sighs
The Decline
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Sky
Η απολύτρωση
I want to live in the sun.
Hearts in the storm
Cyprus in Flames
Unfair curse
A girl different from the others
Open Sea
The Antijealous
The hour of justice
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
The Devastated
The one that didn't bend
Sunday's dream
Men Know How to Love
Η Λυγερή
A Man with a Conscience
The Heart of a Tramp
In the shadow of the other woman
Humbled And Dejected
Venus the girl who hurt
Soldiers Without Uniform
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
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