Eleni Zafeiriou

Known for ActingBorn 1916-01-01Died 2004-09-02Larissa, Greece

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)Read more

Movies & web series

I loved a bum

Annio the cursed tseligopoula

A girl different from the others

The hour of justice

We despised My Sweetness

The Immigrant

Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου

Cyprus in Flames

Soldiers Without Uniform

I lived a monk without love

The sun-born

I Love Only You

Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα

The one that didn't bend

Η Λυγερή

I want to live in the sun.

The big secret

Η απολύτρωση

O Hristos xanastavronetai

Τύψεις συνειδήσεως

The Mistress of the Plain

Slum, my love

The Antijealous

The Avenue of Hate

Damned love

Test

Love that time does not fade

Wrecks Of Life

Open Sea

Mrs. Midwife

The Coffee Reader

The Eagle of the Enslaved

The Devastated

Humbled And Dejected

Miss Manager

The Acacia Road

Love and Blood

A Woman's Past

Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού

Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά

Sky

A Matter of Dignity

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man

The cry of truth

Hours of love, hours of war

Sunday's dream

For Honor and for Love