Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 18, 1920
Died
March 6, 1994
Place of Birth
Athens, Greece
Also Known As
- Maria Amalia Mercouri
- Μαρία Αμαλία Μερκούρη
- Μελίνα Μερκούρη
- Maria Amalia Merkuri
Melina Mercouri
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi. Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes, and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize. Mercouri was a member of the Hellenic Parliament, elected as a representative of PASOK. In October 1981, she became the first female Minister of Culture and Sports. She has the longest tenure of any of Greece's Ministers of Culture, having served from 1981 to 1989, and then from 1993 until her death in 1994, during PASOK governments. Mercouri's political activism included her long campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. One of her greatest achievements was the establishment of the European Capitals of Culture, with Athens chosen as the first capital in 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melina Mercouri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
0.0
Self - Photo Only (archive footage)
The Marbles
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness
2020
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Melina's fight for the Parthenon sculptures
2017
🎬
0.0
Self
Kronen Könner Kavaliere
1984
5.5
Maya / Medea
A Dream of Passion
1978
4.6
Sister Gertrude
Nasty Habits
1977
5.0
Karla
Once Is Not Enough
1975
6.0
Self
Songs of Fire
1975
6.0
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
4.8
Self
The Rehearsal
1974
Credits
The Marbles
as Self - Photo Only (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness
as Self (archive footage)
2020
0.0
Melina's fight for the Parthenon sculptures
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
🎬
Kronen Könner Kavaliere
as Self
1984
0.0
A Dream of Passion
as Maya / Medea
1978
5.5
Nasty Habits
as Sister Gertrude
1977
4.6
Once Is Not Enough
as Karla
1975
5.0
Songs of Fire
as Self
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Rehearsal
as Self
1974
4.8
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Promise at Dawn
as Nina Kacewa
1970
5.3
🎬
Wünsch dir was
as Self
1969
0.0
Gaily, Gaily
as Lil
1969
3.7
À bout portant
as Self
1968
8.0
10:30 P.M. Summer
as Maria
1966
5.2
A Man Could Get Killed
as Aurora / Celeste da Costa
1966
3.8
The Uninhibited
as Jenny
1965
5.8
Dim Dam Dom
as Self
1965
6.0
Topkapi
as Elizabeth Lipp
1964
6.5
🎬
Die Drehscheibe
as Self
1964
6.0
The Victors
as Magda
1963
6.2
38-24-36
as Self
1963
0.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Phaedra
as Phaedra Kyrilis
1962
5.7
The Last Judgment
as Foreign lady
1961
6.4
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Marie de Médicis
1961
5.2
Never on Sunday
as Ilya
1960
6.8
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
The Law
as Donna Lucrezia
1959
5.8
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
as Belle
1958
5.5
He Who Must Die
as Katerina
1957
5.8
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Stella
as Stella
1955
6.8
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9