Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1916
Died
Sep 02, 2004
Place of Birth
Larissa, Greece
Credits
93 titles
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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Known For
Filmography
Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
Δέσποινα
O Hristos xanastavronetai
Μάρθα
The Enemy of the People
Leni
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
The sun-born
Men Know How to Love
The Mistress of the Plain
I lived a monk without love
The cry of truth
I loved a bum
Maria
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
Lieutenant Natassa
Natassa's Mother
I Love Only You
Astrapogiannos
Giannos' Mother
Face to Face with Death
Mrs. Athanasiou
Sunday's dream
The Eagle of the Enslaved
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
Hours of love, hours of war
Maria
The Seal of God
Andreas' mother
A Man with a Conscience
A woman's sacrifice
For Honor and for Love
Wake up Vassili
Antigoni Vasilaki
Slum, my love
The last goodbye
Athina
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Fani Karatzoglou
The Refugee
Despoina Skoutari
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
The Lady and the Tramp
Lefteris' mother
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
The Avenue of Hate
Stamos' mother
Η Λυγερή
A Woman's Past
Despina Moutousi
Damned love
Love and Blood
Aliki Argouzi
The Antijealous
A girl different from the others
The one that didn't bend
Humbled And Dejected
Venus the girl who hurt
The Heart of a Tramp
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
The hour of justice
Groom from London
Mary's Mother
Unfair curse
Sometimes even the strong cry
Angeliki
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
Aspasia's dollars
Aspasia