Tzeni Karezi

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Tzeni Karezi (Greek: Τζένη Καρέζη, January 12, 1932 - July 27, 1992) was a Greek film and theatre actress. She was considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of the cinema of Greece. Tzeni (or Jenny) Karezi was born Evgenia Karpouzi, in Athens, to highly educated parents; her father was a mathematician and her mother a high school teacher. She studied under the direction of nuns in a private French school in Thessaloniki and as a result she spoke French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother. She did not see her father until he died in a car accident, in 1971. In 1951 she was accepted at the Greek National Theater (Eθνικό Θέατρο), where she studied in the Drama School. The play writer 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. She first appeared in the theatre, in this of the actress Marika Kotopouli, along with Melina Mercouri and Vassilis Daiamantopoulos in the French comedy, The beautiful Helen. She continued starring in theatrical plays of Lorka, Shakespeare, Miller, Tolstoy and of Greek contemporary writers like Psathas, Fotiadis and Kampanellis. In 1955, Karezi made her first appearance in the cinema, in the movie Laterna, ftoheia kai filotimo in 1955, by Alekos Sakellarios, which was a massive su

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Tzeni Karezi - Ta Kinimatografika

Tzeni Karezi - Tragoudia Ap' Ton Kinimatografo Ke To Theatro

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Ta Kinimatografika

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Tou Kosmou I Kiriakes - 45 Hronia Lefteris Papadopoulos

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Τζένη Καρέζη - Τα Κινηματογραφικά

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Songs From the Greek Movies: 1950-1962, Vol. 2

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Lola

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Lefteris Papadopoulos - 40 Megala Tragoudia

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O Ehthros Laos

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Λευτέρης Παπαδόπουλος - 40 Μεγάλα Τραγούδια

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Ta Tragoudia Tou Alekou Sakellariou

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Mikis Theodorakis - Anniversary

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