Eleni Zafeiriou
Date of birth: 1916-01-01
Place of birth: Larissa, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, Ελενη Ζαφειριου, Νίτσα Ζαφειρίου
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.
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From Jerusalem with love
1967-01-01
Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point,
The steps of life
1962-10-21
At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams o
Miss Manager
1964-12-18
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical of
A Girl in Black
1956-06-08
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian
Test
1966-01-01
The big secret
1963-01-01
Lily of the Harbor
1952-01-14
Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife an
A Matter of Dignity
1958-02-10
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm
Sky
1962-08-31
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad
Lieutenant Natassa
1970-12-12
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the
A girl different from the others
1968-01-01
The Auntie from Chicago
1957-12-16
Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises h
Wake up Vassili
1969-04-13
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often -
Mrs. Midwife
1961-09-24
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
Η απολύτρωση
1961-01-01
The cry of truth
1971-01-01
A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does n
The Antijealous
1968-01-01
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1956-10-29
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee s
Groom from London
1967-04-17
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who
The Trip
1962-01-06
This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships and wh
The Decline
1961-12-02
A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a
The Mistress of the Plain
1971-01-01
A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. H
Nomos 4000
1962-05-05
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a cl
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
1967-01-01
I Love Only You
1970-10-10
A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the bar
Men Know How to Love
1971-03-18
A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on t
Bitter Bread
1951-04-15
A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in
A woman's sacrifice
1969-08-10
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovel
Erotic Stories
1959-03-09
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
The Avenue of Hate
1968-10-13
An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wif
Restless youth
1963-05-25
The Seal of God
1969-09-19
After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father'
The hour of justice
1967-09-14
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
1968-11-17
The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970-01-01
Jenny Jenny
1966-02-21
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to
Face to Face with Death
1970-03-23
Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1969-01-01
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his fath
For Honor and for Love
1969-05-13
Reserve Second Lieutenant Christos Kladis is absent without leave from his unit when he learns that
The Unknown
1954-06-06
Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is base
A Man with a Conscience
1969-08-25
A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she ret
Slum, my love
1969-02-25
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when
Humbled And Dejected
1968-01-01
Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing h
I lived a monk without love
1971-01-01
A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first
Egoism
1964-12-30
A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates erot
The Lady and the Tramp
1968-12-30
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even wan
Dead City
1951-12-03
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a fami
Love and Blood
1968-01-01
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment a
The Refugee
1969-01-01
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was
We despised My Sweetness
1965-01-01
To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love w
Open Sea
1954-01-01
On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegit
Astrapogiannos
1970-09-21
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the en
Hours of love, hours of war
1970-01-01
Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One n
Aspasia's dollars
1967-01-01
My Bitter Love
1964-07-25
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother
In the shadow of the other woman
1964-06-28
A Woman's Past
1968-02-01
A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmail
The Heart of a Tramp
1968-01-01
Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas
The Acacia Road
1954-11-08
An honest and sensitive girl who lives with her grandmother, Lena Petri, believes that the man she l
Unfair curse
1967-02-02
Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the we
The Lagoon of Desire
1957-08-01
Miranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolo
The Enemy of the People
1972-04-08
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
1959-01-01
The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his
Love that time does not fade
1966-01-01
The one that didn't bend
1968-01-01
I'm not selling my heart
1966-01-01
Unexpectedly, a railroad worker falls in love with his co-worker's sister, unbeknownst to him that h
Sometimes even the strong cry
1967-01-01
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose h
The Lake of Sighs
1959-01-01
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governe
Sunday's dream
1970-01-01
Hearts in the storm
1963-01-01
A mother fights tooth and nail to get her child back from an orphanage. She left him there when the
I loved a bum
1971-01-01
The last goodbye
1969-01-01
The Poor Child
1965-01-01
The Immigrant
1965-09-01
A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to
Venus the girl who hurt
1968-01-01
Shortly after the Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up, Loukas and Christoforos, two Cypriot students st
The Devastated
1966-01-01
The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both lov
Wrecks Of Life
1959-01-01
Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up
The sun-born
1971-12-12
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1971-01-01
Soldiers Without Uniform
1960-09-01
A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother l
Damned love
1968-01-08
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
1968-01-01
Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
1965-01-01
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
1970-01-01
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1969-01-01
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1972-01-01
Η Κύπρος στις φλόγες
1964-01-01
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
1968-01-01
Η Λυγερή
1968-08-07
Θέλω να ζήσω στον ήλιο
1966-01-01