Irene Papas

She has recently been seen in the film, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and is currently working in theatre in Portugal. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd. She began her early career in Greece achieving widespread fame in that country before staring internationally renowned films such as The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek and critically acclaimed films such as Z and Elektra. Later in life she took a role in The Gambler (1997). Irene Papas was born as Irene Lelekou in Corinth, Greece. She stopped making films altogether after Hostages in 1943, although she did appear in a single episode of the World War II television series Combat, and even took a dual role in an episode of The Love Boat. Irene Papas (born September 3, 1929) is a Greek-born actress who has starred in over 70 films with a career spanning over 50 years. Refusing to be stereotyped, or to knuckle under to the studio system, she married playwright Clifford Odets in 1937, but divorced him three years later after a stormy relationship.

Two years later, she had won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her portrayal of actress Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and as a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth in 1937. Rainer appeared in several German language films before going to Hollywood in 1935. She became an American citizen in the 1940s, but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years now. Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a film actress.