
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.
Filmography

1821 at the Cinema

Lysistrata

Erotic Symphony

Manto Mavrogenous

A Woman in the Resistance

A Knight for Vasoula

Love and Blood

Concert for Machine Guns

He And She

A Bullet Through the Heart

Jenny Jenny

A Crazy Family

Miss Manager

A Great Love

Lola

The Red Lanterns

Runaway Bride

Betrayed love

Athens by Night

Who Is Margarita?

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

The Young Lady's Fool

Date in Corfu

The Island of the Brave

Christina

Taxeidi me ton erota

Wrecks Of Life

One Street Organ, One Life

She's a Lunatic

The Auntie from Chicago

The Lagoon of Desire

Laterna, Poverty and Carnation

Trouble for Fathers
