Known for:	Z, Zorba the Greek, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Birth name:	Irene Lelekou
Birthday:	3 September 1926, Chilimodion, Corynth, Greece

Aunt of Manousos Manousakis Aunt of Aias Manthopoulos Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [2000] 2002: She was named "Europe's woman", a title given to women who offer a lot to European civilization. In her speech, she sang a Greek folklore song Irene Papas works in Portugal, where she has a theatre were she plays Greek tragedies in their native language. She has no intention of returning to Greece to play in theatre, because she has suffered from continuous negative criticisms. She starred as the Greek heroine of 1821 (when Greek fought the Turks) in the film Bouboulina. She was a personal friend of the Greek prime-minister Andreas Papandreou. Irene Papas, like the other star of International Fame Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday, Topkapi, has recorded some LPs (now available as CDs) which have gained the status of classical music in Greece, and are very popular around the Greek Ordothox Easter. The names of the records are 'Odes' and 'Rapsodies'. She has recorded 15 traditional songs, and hymns of the Greek Orthodox church. The songs and hymns have been re-arranged by the Oscar-winning composer Vangelis Papathanassiou (Chariots of Fire). She has also recorded songs of Mikis Theodorakis (Zorbas the Greek), but this particular LP has been out of stock for many decades, although it had been said that during 2004 it will be published again. She was discovered by Elia Kazan. Federico Fellini was a huge admirerer of her work. She was a dear friend of Katharine Hepburn, with whom she starred in "The Trojan Women". Hepburn once said that she is "one of the best actresses in the history of cinema".

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