Melina Mercouri

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

2.3498

Gender

Female

Birthday

18-Oct-1920

Age

(106 years old)

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Also Known As
  • Maria Amalia Mercouri
  • Μαρία Αμαλία Μερκούρη
  • Μελίνα Μερκούρη
  • Maria Amalia Merkuri
  • Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri
  • Melina Merkouri
  • Μελινα Μερκουρη

Melina Mercouri

Biography

Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi. Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes, and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize. Mercouri was a member of the Hellenic Parliament, elected as a representative of PASOK. In October 1981, she became the first female Minister of Culture and Sports. She has the longest tenure of any of Greece's Ministers of Culture, having served from 1981 to 1989, and then from 1993 until her death in 1994, during PASOK governments. Mercouri's political activism included her long campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. One of her greatest achievements was the establishment of the European Capitals of Culture, with Athens chosen as the first capital in 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melina Mercouri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Credits

Μελίνα στοπ καρέ – Αναζητώντας τη σύγχρονη ελληνικότητα Μελίνα στοπ καρέ – Αναζητώντας τη σύγχρονη ελληνικότητα (2020) Character: Self (archive footage)
Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.
The Marbles The Marbles (2025) Character: Self - Photo Only (archive footage)
The Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of freedom, and outlines the case for the Parthenon Marbles to be returned to Athens. Documenting the ups and downs that have occurred since.
Canzoni Nel Mondo Canzoni Nel Mondo (1963) Character: Self
The film is a rundown of the songs sung by the stars of the time, chained to various shows such as strip and comic caricatures.
Ο αγώνας της Μελίνας για τα γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα Ο αγώνας της Μελίνας για τα γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα (2017) Character: Self (archive footage)
The Acropolis Museum, recognizing the enormous contribution of Melina Merkouris in raising awareness of the international community for the reunification of the famous sculptures of the Parthenon which are divided in Athens and London, proceeded to create a 23-minute long video, in which the winding of the Parthenon from Elgin and Melina Merkouri's international campaign.
Once Is Not Enough Once Is Not Enough (1975) Character: Karla
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Phaedra Phaedra (1962) Character: Phaedra Kyrilis
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.
Ποτέ την Κυριακή Ποτέ την Κυριακή (1960) Character: Ilya
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
The Gypsy and the Gentleman The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) Character: Belle
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
A Man Could Get Killed A Man Could Get Killed (1966) Character: Aurora / Celeste da Costa
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
Nasty Habits Nasty Habits (1977) Character: Sister Gertrude
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
The Victors The Victors (1963) Character: Magda
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
Στέλλα Στέλλα (1955) Character: Stella
The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour (1961) Character: Marie de Médicis
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Topkapi Topkapi (1964) Character: Elizabeth Lipp
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Τραγούδια της φωτιάς Τραγούδια της φωτιάς (1975) Character: Self
A documentary about the resistance of the people against the millitary Greek junta.
Gaily, Gaily Gaily, Gaily (1969) Character: Lil
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
La legge La legge (1959) Character: Donna Lucrezia
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Κραυγή Γυναικών Κραυγή Γυναικών (1978) Character: Maya / Medea
Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
Los pianos mecánicos Los pianos mecánicos (1965) Character: Jenny
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.
Promise at Dawn Promise at Dawn (1970) Character: Nina Kacewa
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Il giudizio universale Il giudizio universale (1961) Character: Foreign lady
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.
10:30 P.M. Summer 10:30 P.M. Summer (1966) Character: Maria
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
The Rehearsal The Rehearsal (1974) Character: Self
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
Celui qui doit mourir Celui qui doit mourir (1957) Character: Katerina
1920s Greece is occupied by the Turks. A country in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. A small community conduct their annual Passion Play. The leading citizens, under auspices of the Patriarch, choose the actors: a stuttering shepherd as Jesus, the town butcher as Judas, the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene, and so on. As the story unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality.



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