Eleni Zafeiriou
Biography
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.
Porsonal Info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1916-01-01
Place of birth
Larissa, Greece
Social Handle
1.0
From Jerusalem with love
1967-01-01
1.0
The steps of life
1962-10-21
7.3
Miss Manager
1964-12-18
6.1
A Girl in Black
1956-06-08
0.0
Test
1966-01-01
0.0
The big secret
1963-01-01
2.7
Lily of the Harbor
1952-01-14
7.0
A Matter of Dignity
1958-02-10
6.9
Sky
1962-08-31
6.7
Lieutenant Natassa
1970-12-12
0.0
A girl different from the others
1968-01-01
6.6
The Auntie from Chicago
1957-12-16
7.8
Mrs. Midwife
1961-09-24
6.6
Wake up Vassili
1969-04-13
0.0
Η απολύτρωση
1961-01-01
0.0
The cry of truth
1971-01-01
0.0
The Antijealous
1968-01-01
7.9
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1956-10-29
6.6
Groom from London
1967-04-17
6.0
The Trip
1962-01-06
5.6
The Decline
1961-12-02
0.0
The Mistress of the Plain
1971-01-01
5.4
Nomos 4000
1962-05-05
2.0
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
1967-01-01
9.0
I Love Only You
1970-10-10
4.8
Men Know How to Love
1971-03-18
5.8
Bitter Bread
1951-04-15
5.0
A woman's sacrifice
1969-08-10
4.3
Erotic Stories
1959-03-09
7.0
The Avenue of Hate
1968-10-13
0.0
Restless youth
1963-05-25
5.0
The Seal of God
1969-09-19
0.0
The hour of justice
1967-09-14
6.5
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
1968-11-17
6.0
The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970-01-01
6.9
Jenny Jenny
1966-02-21
5.3
Face to Face with Death
1970-03-23
6.8
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1969-01-01
0.0
For Honor and for Love
1969-05-13
3.2
The Unknown
1954-06-06
5.0
A Man with a Conscience
1969-08-25
7.0
Slum, my love
1969-02-25
7.0
Humbled And Dejected
1968-01-01
10.0
I lived a monk without love
1971-01-01
5.7
Egoism
1964-12-30
5.5
The Lady and the Tramp
1968-12-30
6.0
Dead City
1951-12-03
7.5
Love and Blood
1968-01-01
4.0
The Refugee
1969-01-01
10.0
We despised My Sweetness
1965-01-01
0.0
Open Sea
1954-01-01
5.0
Astrapogiannos
1970-09-21
0.0
Hours of love, hours of war
1970-01-01
4.2
Aspasia's dollars
1967-01-01
1.0
My Bitter Love
1964-07-25
1.0
In the shadow of the other woman
1964-06-28
7.5
A Woman's Past
1968-02-01
5.0
The Heart of a Tramp
1968-01-01
6.0
The Acacia Road
1954-11-08
4.0
Unfair curse
1967-02-02
5.3
The Lagoon of Desire
1957-08-01
5.5
The Enemy of the People
1972-04-08
4.0
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
1959-01-01
0.0
Love that time does not fade
1966-01-01
0.0
The one that didn't bend
1968-01-01
0.0
I'm not selling my heart
1966-01-01
5.0
Sometimes even the strong cry
1967-01-01
4.8
The Lake of Sighs
1959-01-01
0.0
Sunday's dream
1970-01-01
4.0
Hearts in the storm
1963-01-01
0.0
I loved a bum
1971-01-01
5.0
The last goodbye
1969-01-01
1.0
The Poor Child
1965-01-01
0.0
The Immigrant
1965-09-01
1.0
Venus the girl who hurt
1968-01-01
6.0
The Devastated
1966-01-01
0.0
Wrecks Of Life
1959-01-01
0.0
The sun-born
1971-12-12
0.0
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1971-01-01
0.0
Soldiers Without Uniform
1960-09-01
0.0
Damned love
1968-01-08
0.0
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
1968-01-01
0.0
Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
1965-01-01
0.0
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
1970-01-01
0.0
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1969-01-01
0.0
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1972-01-01
0.0
Cyprus in flames
1964-01-01
0.0
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
1968-01-01
0.0
Η Λυγερή
1968-08-07
0.0
I want to live in the sun.
1966-01-01
0.0
Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας
Thank You
