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