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Jenny Karezi

Biography

Evgenia Karpouzi was born in Athens, Greece, to a mathematician father and high school teacher mother. She studied under the direction of the Sisters of St. Joseph at a private French school in Thessaloniki, and later by the same Order in Athens. She learned French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother. Her father died in a car accident in 1971. 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.

Known For

The Red Lanterns
The Red Lanterns
Miss Manager
Miss Manager
Jenny Jenny
Jenny Jenny
1821 at the Cinema
1821 at the Cinema
Lysistrata
Lysistrata
The Auntie from Chicago
The Auntie from Chicago
A Crazy Family
A Crazy Family
The Young Lady's Fool
The Young Lady's Fool
The Hurdy-Gurdy
The Hurdy-Gurdy
A Knight for Vasoula
A Knight for Vasoula

Filmography

2021 1821 at the Cinema
as (archive footage)
1990 Μαύρη χρυσαλλίδα
as Ναταλία φον Κράουζε
1972 Lysistrata
as Lysistrati
1972 Erotic Symphony
as Eirini / Betty Stergiou
1971 Manto Mavrogenous
as Manto Mavrogenous
1970 A Woman in the Resistance
as Άννα Κολέτη
1968 A Knight for Vasoula
as Vasoula Liontou
1968 Love and Blood
as Foni Yeraka
1967 Concert for Machine Guns
as Niki
1967 He And She
as
1966 A Bullet Through the Heart
as Carla
1966 Jenny Jenny
as Jenny Skoutari
1965 A Crazy Family
as Mika
1964 Miss Manager
as Lila Vasileiou
1964 A Great Love
as Lena
1964 Lola
as Λόλα
1963 The Red Lanterns
as Eleni Niculescu
1962 Runaway Bride
as Kaiti Alexopoulou
1962 Betrayed love
as Anna
1962 Athens by Night
as