Remembering Irene Papas on her birthday 🎂 📷 Eve Arnold, London, 1978 "Irene Papas is a woman, a lady, a great actress. We do not have many like her. Perhaps that's why she doesn't appear in many movies; ordinary actors have trouble sharing the screen with her." - Roger Ebert
Irene Papas on the set of Michael Cacoyannis's Zorba the Greek, 1964 The still photographer on the set was Sergio Strizzi. What a wonderful shot!
Irene Papas by Laurent Peters Athens, 1996 "I claim that I act because I need to eat. I cry and I eat. But why should I eat simply because I cry well? I should eat because I am hungry."
Irene Papas as Agave, in Michael Cacoyannis's production of The Bacchae at the Circle in the Square Theatre, NY, 1980 NYPL digital collection
In a New York Times article from July 20, 1967, Irene Papas talks about "the ridiculous little bunch of half-educated colonels who took over the country". Papas & Melina Mercouri & Mikis Theodorakis were brave patriots! www.nytimes.com/1967/07/20/a... 🎁
