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Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a political family that was prominent over multiple generations.
Actress: Never on Sunday. Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece on October 18, 1920. An early woman activist, she was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977.
Mar 7, 1994 · Melina Mercouri, the vivacious actress with a husky laugh who went on to become Greece's Minister of Culture, died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
Mar 6, 2022 · Maria Amalia Mercouri, known professionally as Melina Mercouri, was a Greek actress, singer, and politician. Born on 31 October 1920 in Athens, she passed away on the 6 th of March, 1994 at the age of 74.
Melina Mercouri (born Oct. 18, 1925, Athens, Greece—died March 6, 1994, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a Greek actress and political activist who was the minister of culture in her country’s first socialist government (1981). Mercouri came from a politically prominent family.
Melina Mercouri is one of the great women figures of Greece in the 20th century. A many-sided and vibrant personality, she played a leading role in the struggle against the Colonel’s Junta in 1967 – 1974 and was a great theatre and film actress of international fame.
Mar 7, 1994 · Melina Mercouri, the throaty actress who rocketed to international fame as the good-hearted prostitute Illya in “Never on Sunday” and went on to become Greece’s passionate minister of culture,...
Actress: Never on Sunday. Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece on October 18, 1920. An early woman activist, she was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977. Later Miss Mercouri was to become the first woman to hold a Senior cabinet post "Minister of Culture" in the Greek government.
Mercouri, Melina (1923–1994) Greek actress and politician who achieved international stardom in the movies Stella and Never on Sunday, spent seven years in exile while Greece was ruled by a right-wing military junta, then returned home to serve in Parliament and as minister of culture and science.
Melina Mercouri brought fire and passion to everything she did; from gracing the stage and screen in the early part of her life, to fighting the fascist junta that took control of Greece in 1967, to campaigning for the protection and promotion of culture in Europe as a politician.
