Irene Papas Cause Of Death

Irene Papas, a Greek actress, politician and singer whose career span more than six decades and starred in over 70 films has died. She died on Wed. Sept. 14, 2022, eleven days after celebrating her 96th birthday.

What is Irene Papas’ cause of death? As of now, Papas’ cause of death is unknown, however, it was reported in 2018 that she had been living with Alzheimer’s disease for five years.

Papas spent her final years in her birth place, Chiliomodi, outside Corinth, Greece.

She was educated from age 15 at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in Athens, taking classes in dance and singing.

She found the acting style advocated by the School old-fashioned, formal, and stylised, and she rebelled against it, causing her to have to repeat a year. She eventually graduated in 1948.

Papas began her acting career in Greece in variety and traditional theatre, in plays by Ibsen, Shakespeare, and classical Greek tragedy, before moving into film in 1951.