Eleni Papadaki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eleni Papadaki

Greek actress

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1944

Profession: actor

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Eleni Papadaki

  • Eleni Papadaki (Greek: ????? ?apad???, 1903–1944) was a celebrated Greek stage actress who was murdered during the Dekemvriana events, accused unjustly for political reasons by the communists, of having collaborated with the Nazi occupation forces and the collaborationist regime during the Axis occupation. She was born on 4 November 1903 in Athens to an affluent family, the granddaughter of university professor Stylianos Konstantinidis.
  • She studied philology at Athens University, phonetics, music and piano at the Great Conservatory of Athens, but began an acting career at the age of twenty-two in 1925, in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.
  • The theatre critic for the Demokratia newspaper greeted her performance with the comment that "today the stage has acquired a great actress".
  • At the same time, she also performed in Oscar Wilde's Salome. Her most successful performances during the last part of her career was in ancient Greek tragedies. During the Axis occupation of Greece she has been accused of being the mistress of the collaborationist prime minister Ioannis Rallis including right-wing newspapers of the Greek Resistance.Finally, Eleni Papadaki was executed in Athens on 22 December 1944, during the "Dekemvriana" events, by communists of the OPLA.
  • She had been denounced by a rival actress and after a council of the actors of the National Theatre, who had her expelled for collaboration with the Germans.

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