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Jenny Karezi
Acting

Jenny Karezi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-01-01,Athens - Greece
Gender
Female
Biography
Tzeni Karezi (Greek: Τζένη Καρέζη; 12 January 1932 – 26 July 1992) also known as Jenny Karezi, was a Greek film and stage actress. Evgenia Karpouzi was born in Athens, Greece, to a mathematician father and high school teacher mother. In 1951 she was accepted at the Greek National Theater, where she studied in the Drama School. The playwright Angelos Terzakis and the director Dimitris Rontiris were among her teachers. Upon graduation, in 1954, she was immediately thrust into starring roles in the theatre, playing alongside actors such as Alexis Minotis and Katina Paxinou. Her stage debut was in the Marika Kotopouli theatre in the French comedy, La belle Heléne, with Melina Mercouri and Vasilis Diamantopoulos. In 1955, Karezi made her cinema debut in the Alekos Sakellarios' comedy, Laterna, ftoheia kai filotimo in 1955, a massive success just like its sequel, Laterna, ftoheia kai garyfallo in 1957. For the soundtrack of the 1959 film To nisi ton genneon she recorded a song by future Academy Award-winner Manos Hadjidakis, "Min ton rotas ton ourano" ("Do not ask the sky"). Her career flourished in the 1960s, when she headed her own theater troupe in 1961 and starred in some of the most classic movies of the Greek cinema, like Lola (1964), Mia trelli ... trelli oikogeneia (1965), Tzeni-Tzeni (1966), and Kontserto gia polyvola (1967). Her greatest film success was Ta kokkina fanaria (The Red Lanterns; 1963), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her last film appearance was in Aristophanes' Lysistrata (1972). Over the following decade, she continued to produce and star in such stage classics as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medea and Electra. She appeared for the last time in theatre in 1990 in Loula Anagnostaki's play, Diamonds and the blues; suffering from terminal breast cancer, she was in great pain and had to leave the show.

Filmography

The Red Lanterns

7.018

The Red Lanterns
1963-12-02

7.432

Miss Manager
1964-12-18

7

Jenny Jenny
1966-02-21

1821 at the Cinema

0

1821 at the Cinema
2021-10-14

6.111

Lysistrata
1972-09-25

The Auntie from Chicago

6.655

The Auntie from Chicago
1957-12-16

A Crazy Crazy Family

7.733

A Crazy Crazy Family
1965-10-25

The Young Lady's Fool

6.1

The Young Lady's Fool
1960-03-14

The Hurdy-Gurdy

7.316

The Hurdy-Gurdy
1955-12-12

A Knight for Vasoula

6.563

A Knight for Vasoula
1968-11-16

6.825

Lola
1964-02-17

6.5

Runaway Bride
1962-11-19

Laterna, Poverty and Carnation

7.412

Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1957-04-01

The Lagoon of Desire

6.6

The Lagoon of Desire
1957-08-01

Athens by Night

6

Athens by Night
1962-01-01

Manto Mavrogenous

6.778

Manto Mavrogenous
1971-01-01

Erotic Symphony

6.2

Erotic Symphony
1972-01-01

One Street Organ, One Life

6.143

One Street Organ, One Life
1958-11-28

She's a Lunatic

2

She's a Lunatic
1958-04-27

4.5

A Great Love
1964-04-20

Taxeidi me ton erota

7

Taxeidi me ton erota
1959-01-01

The Island of the Brave

7

The Island of the Brave
1960-01-01

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

7.3

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
1960-12-26

7.333

Love and Blood
1968-01-01

A Bullet Through the Heart

6

A Bullet Through the Heart
1966-02-23

Trouble for Fathers

6.333

Trouble for Fathers
1957-01-07

4.818

Date in Corfu
1960-02-08

Who Is Margarita?

5.818

Who Is Margarita?
1961-01-01

Concert for Machine Guns

6.5

Concert for Machine Guns
1967-07-22

A Woman in the Resistance

6

A Woman in the Resistance
1970-01-01

7

Christina
1960-01-01

6.333

Betrayed love
1962-06-06

6.333

He And She
1967-01-30

8

Wrecks Of Life
1959-01-01

Μαύρη χρυσαλλίδα

8

Μαύρη χρυσαλλίδα
1990-11-30