
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.
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Acting History
2021
1821 at the Cinema as (archive footage)
1990Μαύρη χρυσαλλίδα as Ναταλία φον Κράουζε
1972Lysistrata as Lysistrati
1972Erotic Symphony as Eirini / Betty Stergiou
1971Manto Mavrogenous as Manto Mavrogenous
1970A Woman in the Resistance as Άννα Κολέτη
1968A Knight for Vasoula as Vasoula Liontou
1968Love and Blood as Foni Yeraka
1967Concert for Machine Guns as Niki
1967He And She
1966A Bullet Through the Heart as Carla
1966Jenny Jenny as Jenny Skoutari
1965A Crazy Crazy Family as Mika
1964Miss Manager as Lila Vasileiou
1964A Great Love as Lena
1964Lola as Λόλα
1963The Red Lanterns as Eleni Niculescu
1962Runaway Bride as Kaiti Alexopoulou
1962Betrayed love as Anna
1962Athens by Night
1961Who Is Margarita? as Margarita Kondostavrou
1960Snow White and the 7 Old Boys as Alexia
1960The Young Lady's Fool as Julia Karali
1960Date in Corfu as Diana Laniti / Mirka
1960Christina as Hristina
1960The Island of the Brave as Dona
1959Taxeidi me ton erota as Gianna
1959Wrecks Of Life
1958One Street Organ, One Life as Nina
1958She's a Lunatic as Jenny
1957The Auntie from Chicago as Katina Barda
1957The Lagoon of Desire as Miranda
1957Laterna, Poverty and Carnation as Καίτη
1957Trouble for Fathers as Μπίλλυ Μαυρογιάννη
1955The Hurdy-Gurdy as Kaiti









