

Jenny Karezi
Acting
January 1, 1932
Athens - Greece
July 27, 1992
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.
The Filmography


A Woman in the Resistance

A Knight for Vasoula

Concert for Machine Guns

He And She

A Bullet Through the Heart

Jenny Jenny

A Crazy Crazy Family

Miss Manager

A Great Love

Lola

The Red Lanterns

Runaway Bride

Betrayed love

Athens by Night

Who Is Margarita?

The Young Lady's Fool

Christina

The Island of the Brave
