Greek actress Irene Papas exclaims "I'm really an Albanian, bitches."

Why did she choose to live the difficult life of a closeted Albanian?

[quote] Does this put her in Merle Oberon territory?

Coincidentally Wuthering Heights is on TCM now.

She revealed her Albanian roots in 2016.

She heard the Albanian jokes from [italic]Tune in Tomorrow[/italic].

Albanians are the biggest trolls of the Balkans so who could blame her.

"WTF? Does this put her in Merle Oberon territory? She created a false and detailed history for herself."

Irene Papas walked so Lana del Rey could run.

I thought she died in the 90's.

One of the great film actresses ever, with one of the greatest faces for film ever.

Unforgettable as Helen in The Trojan Women.

[quote] Unforgettable as Helen in The Trojan Women.

Well now we know it was The Trojan Women (and One Albanian Woman).

I never miss a Bekim Fehmiu musical.

^^ LMAO

Aκυρωθεί !

Why did she hide her Albanian shame?

Irene Papas is 100 percent Greek. She was born in Greece, and both of her parents were Greek.

Papas was born as Irini Lelekou (Ειρήνη Λελέκου) in the village of Chiliomodi, outside Corinth, Greece. Her mother, Eleni Prevezanou (Ελένη Πρεβεζάνου), was a schoolteacher, and her father, Stavros Lelekos (Σταύρος Λελέκος),[a] taught classical drama at the Sofikós school in Corinth.

She has received the honours of Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in Greece, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in France, and Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in Spain.[60]

In 2017, it was announced that the National Theatre of Greece's drama school was to be relocated to a new "Irene Papas - Athens School" on Agiou Konstantinou Street in Athens from 2018.

[quote]R15 Irene Papas is 100 percent Greek. She was born in Greece, and both of her parents were Greek.

But I read on the internet that she is Albanian!

Explain [italic]that!

She's Trans Albanian.

^^ r15 false. She's Albanian as are both of her parents.

Mother Teresa was Albanian. But she snd Irene Papas look nothing alike.

Now I doubt the story.

R16. Sorry, but your Internets along with 94-year old Ms. Papas' Internets are wrong. Irene, dear, you're Greek.

Kalo Pascha. Christos Anesti

She says she’s Albanian. Stop claiming her as Greek. She’s reclaimed her Albanian heritage. Good on her. Shame on you stinky Greeks.

I'm too lazy to look at a map but is claiming to be Greek when your Albanian like claiming you're Swedish when you're Norse? Or is it like claiming you're Chinese when you're Nigerian?

R22 Like when you claim to be an idiot when you’re a moron.

I always get her and Katina Paxinou mixed up.

Maybe Paxinou was Albanian, too.

I, TOO, AM FROM ALBANY!

Since Biden denounced the Albanian genocide, look for looks of people with 1 drop of Albanian blood to climb aboard the Albanian victim train.

r22 post is the saddest thing I've read on DL in since the Dubai Portapotty story. It seems like an ordinary mindless statement but it actually captures the zeitgeist of today's America; lazy, narcissistic, and and blissfully ignorant.

[quote]Mother Teresa was Albanian. But she snd Irene Papas look nothing alike.

So was John Belushi.

I'll stone a bitch who calls me Greek.

r25=Miss Teen South Carolina

Papas is a Greek name, isn't it?

Isn't Rita Wilson Albanian?

I'd sacrifice her to the Gods if I were still alive and smoking.

Great. Just Great. Anne Boleyn was black and now Katherine of Aragon was Albanian.

All I have to say is: Go ahead, girl! Make it up! Have fun! WHO CARES??????

On Irene Papas' ipod.

Hilaria(s)

Irene Papas got her start in an Albanian girl band.

The Greek patriarchy is terrible - they forced her to drop 'Mamas' from her last name.

Wait, Biden denounced the Albanian genocide?

[quote] Unforgettable as Helen in The Trojan Women.

R9 That movie is never seen

Her Electra is an amazing performance too.

She appears in 'Iphigenia' in 1971 where the cute Achilles (Panos Mihalopoulos) displays his cute buttocks.

[quote] I always get her and Katina Paxinou mixed up.

Irene has a flat nose but Katina's very long.

Katina is older but they both have dark lines under their eyes.

[quote]Since Biden denounced the Albanian genocide, look for looks of people with 1 drop of Albanian blood to climb aboard the Albanian victim train.

Wrong genocide, dear.

I get it, Irene!

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

"Tell me about it, bitch!:

^^ wtf, idiota?

I blew Marlon Brando.

[italic]WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING ? ! ? !

R51 When? where?

Has Irene Papas ever visited our shores?

She made a few Hollywood movies early in her career and met Brando in 1954.

""I have never since loved a man as I loved Marlon. He was the great passion of my life, absolutely the man I cared about the most and also the one I esteemed most."

She acted in plays off-Broadway and on Broadway (including Medea) between 1967-1980.

She has had Alzheimer's for several years.

[quote]r54 She has had Alzheimer's for several years.

Maybe that's why she's mistakenly babbling about her origins.

R44 She's amazing in that movie, as is the young lead actress (Tatiana Papamoschou). Irene's final couple of scenes hit like a tonne of bricks after everything the character has gone through. Very powerful.

She's from a great generation of Greek actresses. She and Melina Mercouri are the obvious ones, but I think Ellie Lambeti was the most talented of all, with her deep haunting eyes. Jenny Karezi, Aliki Vougioklaki (arguably the biggest matinee star of them all in Greece of all the popular musicals and romances), Zoe Laskari, Rena Vlahopoulou (the Lucille Ball-esque comic actress). All great leading ladies in their own right.

Regarding the topic, i'm Greek Australian (in my 20s) but even I can recall my grandmother speaking on the phone to her relatives back home in Greece in Albanian and "Arvanitika" languages. Some people in my family over there jokingly call each other Albanians as some kind of playful ribbing so to speak ("don't listen to him, he's Albanian" or "you look so Albanian in this photo"), so I wonder if there has been a sense of shame about Albanian heritage (especially when Greek pride is such a big thing, it's quite nationalistic after all the wars etc). But i've mostly lived in Australia so I am not sure.

Is this like Alec Baldwin's wife?

A whole lot of bitches have said Marlon was the ONE man in their lives, the one they loved above all others. Rita, Irene, Anna, whoever. Well, they're deluding themselves. It was me, bitches, ME!

I know she was in Guns of Navarone with Gregory Peck but have no idea if she’s Albanian.

She says she is so I imagine she is.

Irene Papas is 100 percent Greek (not at all Albanian). She was born as Irini Lelekou (Ειρήνη Λελέκου) outside of Corinth, Greece. Her mother, Eleni Prevezanou (Ελένη Πρεβεζάνου), was a schoolteacher, and her father, Stavros Lelekos (Σταύρος Λελέκος), taught classical drama at the Sofikós school in Corinth.

Both of her parents are Greek. Her birth surname is the feminine version of her father's last name: "Lelekos."

In 1947, Irene married the film director Alkis Papas; they divorced in 1951.

^^ You keep posting her incorrect Wiki profile. Why don't you accept what she is telling you? "I'm Albanian."

^^Because she's not Albanian.

Stop trying to silence Papas’ voice, r63.

Quit the mansplaining. She knows what she is.

^^ idiota

To be honest she looks quite Albanian in R34 's photo.