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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1916
Died
September 2, 2004
Place of Birth
Larissa, Greece
Also Known As
- Ελένη Ζαφειρίου
- Ελενη Ζαφειριου
- Νίτσα Ζαφειρίου
Eleni Zafeiriou
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.0
Δέσποινα
Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
1996
7.0
Μάρθα
O Hristos xanastavronetai
1975
5.5
Leni
The Enemy of the People
1972
0.0
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1972
0.0
The sun-born
1971
4.8
Men Know How to Love
1971
0.0
The Mistress of the Plain
1971
10.0
I lived a monk without love
1971
0.0
The cry of truth
1971
0.0
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1971
Credits
Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού
as Δέσποινα
1996
7.0
O Hristos xanastavronetai
as Μάρθα
1975
7.0
The Enemy of the People
as Leni
1972
5.5
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1972
0.0
The sun-born
1971
0.0
Men Know How to Love
1971
4.8
The Mistress of the Plain
1971
0.0
I lived a monk without love
1971
10.0
The cry of truth
1971
0.0
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1971
0.0
I loved a bum
as Maria
1971
0.0
Lieutenant Natassa
as Natassa's Mother
1970
6.7
I Love Only You
1970
9.0
Astrapogiannos
as Giannos' Mother
1970
5.0
Face to Face with Death
as Mrs. Athanasiou
1970
5.3
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
1970
0.0
The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970
6.0
Hours of love, hours of war
as Maria
1970
0.0
Sunday's dream
1970
0.0
The Seal of God
as Andreas' mother
1969
5.0
A Man with a Conscience
1969
5.0
A woman's sacrifice
1969
5.0
For Honor and for Love
1969
0.0
Wake up Vassili
as Antigoni Vasilaki
1969
6.6
Slum, my love
1969
7.0
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1969
0.0
The Refugee
as Despoina Skoutari
1969
4.0
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
as Fani Karatzoglou
1969
6.8
The last goodbye
as Athina
1969
5.0
The Lady and the Tramp
as Lefteris' mother
1968
5.5
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
1968
6.5
The Avenue of Hate
as Stamos' mother
1968
7.0
Η Λυγερή
1968
0.0
A Woman's Past
as Despina Moutousi
1968
7.5
Damned love
1968
0.0
The Heart of a Tramp
1968
5.0
Love and Blood
as Aliki Argouzi
1968
7.5
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
1968
0.0
Humbled And Dejected
1968
7.0
The one that didn't bend
1968
0.0
The Antijealous
1968
0.0
Venus the girl who hurt
1968
1.0
A girl different from the others
1968
0.0
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
1968
0.0
The hour of justice
1967
0.0
Groom from London
as Mary's Mother
1967
6.6
Unfair curse
1967
4.0
From Jerusalem with love
1967
1.0
Aspasia's dollars
as Aspasia
1967
4.2
Sometimes even the strong cry
as Angeliki
1967
5.0
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
1967
2.0
Jenny Jenny
as Matina Skoutari
1966
6.9
Love that time does not fade
1966
0.0
The Devastated
1966
6.0
Θέλω να ζήσω στον ήλιο
1966
0.0
I'm not selling my heart
as Stefanos' mother
1966
0.0
Test
as Lena
1966
0.0
The Immigrant
1965
0.0
Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
1965
0.0
We despised My Sweetness
as Fonda's mother
1965
10.0
The Poor Child
as Maria
1965
1.0
Egoism
as Giorgos' Mother
1964
5.7
Miss Manager
as Loukia Samiotaki
1964
7.3
My Bitter Love
1964
1.0
In the shadow of the other woman
1964
1.0
Η Κύπρος στις φλόγες
1964
0.0
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Restless youth
1963
0.0
The big secret
as μητέρα Χριστίνας
1963
0.0
Hearts in the storm
1963
4.0
The steps of life
as Mrs. Zarlati
1962
1.0
Sky
1962
6.9
Nomos 4000
as Anna Oikonomou
1962
5.4
The Trip
as mitera tis Marinas
1962
6.0
The Decline
as Ελισάβετ Νικολάου
1961
5.6
Mrs. Midwife
as Mrs. Bekou (Lykourgos' wife)
1961
7.8
Η απολύτρωση
1961
0.0
Soldiers Without Uniform
1960
0.0
Erotic Stories
as Smaragdi
1959
4.3
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
as Tzavelaina
1959
4.0
Wrecks Of Life
1959
0.0
The Lake of Sighs
as Ayah
1959
4.8
A Matter of Dignity
as Katerina
1958
7.0
The Auntie from Chicago
as Efterpi Barda
1957
6.6
The Lagoon of Desire
1957
5.3
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
as Anna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou)
1956
7.9
A Girl in Black
as Froso
1956
6.1
The Acacia Road
1954
6.0
The Unknown
as Ρόζα
1954
3.2
Open Sea
1954
0.0
Lily of the Harbor
as Martha
1952
2.7
Dead City
as Gianna
1951
6.0
Bitter Bread
as Mrs. Lyberi
1951
5.8