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Melina Mercouri
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi (1964). Mercouri was also nominated for one To…
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entertainment · Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician (1920–1994) · actor · singer · politician · writer · stage actor · film actor · musician · also Melina Mercouri, Maria Amalia Merkouri, Mercouri
Born 18 October 1920 · Died 6 March 1994 · Q228611
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
United Nations Regional Information Centre: 2023 Call for nominations UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize
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2020· 2 entries
BroadwayWorld: Melina Mercouri
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Yahoo: Melina Mercouri Celebrated at Lumiere Film Festival Tribute
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2008· 1 entry
East Bay Times: Melina Mercouri was his muse, every day
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2005· 1 entry
Tampa Bay Times: Melina Mercouri, 70, dead of cancer
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1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-03-06.
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Culture of Greece (1993–1994).
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1990· 1 entry
Was a candidate for Mayor of Athens, but she was defeated by Antonis Tritsis
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1989–1991).
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1988· 1 entry
Supported the cooperation between Eastern Europe and the European Union, which was finally implemented one year later with the celebration of the Month of Culture in Eastern countries
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Europe Theatre Prize (1987).
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Was awarded a special accolade in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize
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The jury of the Europe Theatre Prize awarded her a special prize of the presidency with the motivation: "For the devotion and the commitment of an artist who joins her own theatrical experience with the political belief
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1983· 3 entries
With Athens being the first title-holder in 1985
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Engaged in a televised debate with the then-director of the British Museum, David M
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During the first Greek presidency of the Council of the European Union, Mercouri invited the Ministers for Culture of the other nine member states of the European Union at Zappeion, to increase the people's cultural awar
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Culture and Sciences of Greece (1981–1989).
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1978· 1 entry
Career landmark: substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1978–1982).
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1977· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (1977–1994).
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1974· 1 entry
Mercouri settled in Greece and was one of the founding members of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), a centre-left political party
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1967· 2 entries
Mercouri appeared on one of the final episodes of What's My Line (the venerable panel show would leave the air that fall, after 18 years)
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Played the leading role in Illya Darling (from 11 April 1967 to 13 January 1968) on Broadway, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Never on Sunday (1960).
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Although the company Sirius, created by Hadjidakis, issued a recording Mercouri made for French television during the 1960s in 2004
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1955· 1 entry
Starred in her first feature film, Stella
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1953· 1 entry
Mercouri received the Marika Kotopouli Prize
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1949· 1 entry
Had her first major success in the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-10-18.
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