
Acting
Born January 1, 1932 · Athens - Greece
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.

1821 at the Cinema
2021

Lysistrata
1972

Erotic Symphony
1972

Manto Mavrogenous
1971

A Woman in the Resistance
1970

A Knight for Vasoula
1968

Love and Blood
1968

Concert for Machine Guns
1967

He And She
1967

A Bullet Through the Heart
1966

Jenny Jenny
1966

A Crazy Crazy Family
1965

Miss Manager
1964

A Great Love
1964

Lola
1964

The Red Lanterns
1963

Runaway Bride
1962

Betrayed love
1962

Athens by Night
1962

Who Is Margarita?
1961

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
1960

The Young Lady's Fool
1960

Date in Corfu
1960

The Island of the Brave
1960

Christina
1960

Taxeidi me ton erota
1959

Wrecks Of Life
1959

One Street Organ, One Life
1958

She's a Lunatic
1958

The Auntie from Chicago
1957

The Lagoon of Desire
1957

Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1957

Trouble for Fathers
1957

The Hurdy-Gurdy
1955