
Eleni Zafeiriou
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.
93 acting credits
Acting · 93

O Hristos xanastavronetai
1975

Jenny Jenny
1966

The Auntie from Chicago
1957

Miss Manager
1964

The Lady and the Tramp
1968

The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1956

A Girl in Black
1956

The Decline
1961

Lieutenant Natassa
1970

Mrs. Midwife
1961

Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
1996

Wake up Vassili
1969

The Seal of God
1969

Unfair curse
1967

A Matter of Dignity
1958

Soldiers Without Uniform
1960

Groom from London
1967

Face to Face with Death
1970

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1969

Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
1959

Love and Blood
1968

Bitter Bread
1951

Dead City
1951

I want to live in the sun.
1966

Humbled And Dejected
1968

A Man with a Conscience
1969

Men Know How to Love
1971

Wrecks Of Life
1959

The Antijealous
1968

Lily of the Harbor
1952

The Unknown
1954

Erotic Stories
1959

Astrapogiannos
1970

The Avenue of Hate
1968

The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970

The Trip
1962

A woman's sacrifice
1969

A Woman's Past
1968

The Lake of Sighs
1959

Hours of love, hours of war
1970

Slum, my love
1969

Cyprus in flames
1964

The Lagoon of Desire
1957

Nomos 4000
1962

The Immigrant
1965

I loved a bum
1971

I lived a monk without love
1971

For Honor and for Love
1969

The Heart of a Tramp
1968

Sky
1962

Venus the girl who hurt
1968

The Enemy of the People
1972

Hearts in the storm
1963

The steps of life
1962

Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
1968

The Refugee
1969

The Acacia Road
1954

The Devastated
1966

Damned love
1968

Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1971

I'm not selling my heart
1966

The Poor Child
1965

Sometimes even the strong cry
1967
Restless youth
1963

The last goodbye
1969

I Love Only You
1970

We despised My Sweetness
1965

Open Sea
1954

Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
1968

Η απολύτρωση
1961

The cry of truth
1971

Love that time does not fade
1966

My Bitter Love
1964

Egoism
1964

The sun-born
1971

The one that didn't bend
1968

The Mistress of the Plain
1971

In the shadow of the other woman
1964

Aspasia's dollars
1967

From Jerusalem with love
1967

Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
1968

Η Λυγερή
1968

Sunday's dream
1970

The hour of justice
1967

Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
1965

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1969

Test
1966

Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1972

A girl different from the others
1968

Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας
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The big secret
1963

Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
1967

Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
1970