ACTOR

Irene Papas

1929 - 2022

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Irene Papas or Irene Pappas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, romanized: Eiríni Pappá, IPA: [iˈrini paˈpa]; born Eirini Lelekou (Greek: Ειρήνη Λελέκου, romanized: Eiríni Lelékou); 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irene Papas has received more than 1,651,812 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Irene Papas is the 135th most popular actor (up from 168th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Greece (up from 97th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Actor.

Irene Papas is most famous for her role as the Greek goddess Aphrodite in the 1968 film, "Clash of the Titans."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Irene Papas ranks 135 out of 13,578. Before her are Lee Van Cleef, Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest, Salman Khan, Bruno Ganz, and Donald Sutherland. After her are Gary Cooper, Gene Hackman, Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Madden, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Irene Papas ranks 14. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, Hassan II of Morocco, and Imre Kertész. After her are Jacques Brel, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Ende, Jean Baudrillard, Frank Gehry, and Oriana Fallaci. Among people deceased in 2022, Irene Papas ranks 10. Before her are Pope Benedict XVI, Jiang Zemin, Jean-Luc Godard, Vangelis, Shinzō Abe, and Luc Montagnier. After her are Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Olivia Newton-John, and Madeleine Albright.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Irene Papas ranks 85 out of 1,024. Before her are Philip III of Macedon (-359), Pope Dionysius (200), Paul of Greece (1901), Hephaestion (-356), Mahfiruz Hatun (1590), and Hippias (-443). After her are Galla Placidia (388), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Creon (null), Archilochus (-680), Cimon (-510), and Lysimachus (-361).

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Among ACTORS In Greece

Among actors born in Greece, Irene Papas ranks 1. After her are Melina Mercouri (1920), Thespis (-600), Katina Paxinou (1900), John Aniston (1933), Aliki Vougiouklaki (1934), Skeet Ulrich (1970), Carl Anderson (1945), Adele Neuhauser (1959), Ariane Labed (1984), and Haruna Ikezawa (1975).

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Television and Movie Roles

Z
Hélène, wife of the Deputy
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor finds evidence of a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled account of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, Z captures the outrage about the US-backed military junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Feb 26th 19697.8 / 10
The Message
Hind
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.
Mar 9th 19767.3 / 10
The Odyssey
Anticleia
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster.
7.173 / 10