
Eleni Zafeiriou
Born January 1, 1916 · Larissa, 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)
Notable Appearances
Movies
TV Shows
More Movies

The Trip

Sky

Nomos 4000

The Auntie from Chicago

A Matter of Dignity

The Lady and the Tramp

The Antijealous

Miss Manager

Sometimes even the strong cry

Τύψεις συνειδήσεως

Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου

Jenny Jenny

The Lagoon of Desire

The Poor Child

The one that didn't bend

Hearts in the storm

Open Sea

I want to live in the sun.

Sunday's dream

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man

Venus the girl who hurt

The Coffee Reader

The Mistress of the Plain

The Heart of a Tramp

A girl different from the others

The Decline

The last goodbye

In the shadow of the other woman

Unfair curse

Humbled And Dejected

Test

Men Know How to Love

The steps of life

The hour of justice

The big secret

Aspasia's dollars

Astrapogiannos

Wake up Vassili

The Eagle of the Enslaved

I'm not selling my heart

Cyprus in Flames

Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας

Groom from London

Lieutenant Natassa

A Girl in Black

Η Λυγερή

Face to Face with Death

Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου

The Enemy of the People

Erotic Stories

The Devastated

The Unknown

My Bitter Love

A Man with a Conscience

The Lake of Sighs

The Avenue of Hate

The Immigrant

A woman's sacrifice

Soldiers Without Uniform

The Seal of God

Wrecks Of Life

A Woman's Past

Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα

Dead City

I Love Only You

For Honor and for Love

Lily of the Harbor

I lived a monk without love

Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom

The Refugee

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα

We despised My Sweetness

Annio the cursed tseligopoula

Egoism

Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας

Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά

The sun-born

Love that time does not fade

I loved a bum

Hours of love, hours of war

From Jerusalem with love

Damned love

The cry of truth

Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα

The Acacia Road






