- Nacimiento
- Fallecimiento6 de marzo de 1994 · Upper East Side, Manhattan, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos (complicaciones de un cáncer de pulmón)
- Nombre de nacimientoMaria Amalia Mercouri
- Apodo
- The last Greek Goddess
- Altura1,69 m
- Melina Mercouri nació el 18 de octubre de 1920 en Atenas, Grecia. Fue una actriz y escritora, conocida por Nunca en domingo (1960), Topkapi (1964) y Fedra (1962). Estuvo casada con Jules Dassin y Panos Harokopos. Murió el 6 de marzo de 1994 en Manhattan, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesJules Dassin(18 de mayo de 1966 - 6 de marzo de 1994) (su muerte)Panos Harokopos(1941 - 1962) (divorciado)
- Niños
- Melina's and Jules Dassin's film Topkapi (1964) was the inspiration for the TV series Mission: Impossible (1996), which was produced by the production company Desilu owned by Lucille Ball, and it was even mentioned in the film Mission: Impossible (1996) starring Tom Cruise.
- She and Jules Dassin lived together for nearly 10 years before marrying in 1966.
- Melina's greatest dream as a politician was the return of the marbles of the Parthenon, known as the Elgin marbles, back in Greece. Now they are in the British Museum.
- Melina met Jules Dassin in Cannes during the screening of her first film Stella (1955).
- During the seven years of her exile in France, 1967-1974, Melina Mercouri recorded some highly popular records for UNIVERSAL, named 'Melina Mercouri', 'L oeillet rouge', 'si Melina m etait contee', 'Je suis Grecque' including famous Greek and French songs.
- "I was born Greek and I would die Greek. Mr. Pattakos was born a dictator and he will die as a dictator." Her reply to the fact that the Military dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974) in Greece had proclaimed that she was no longer a Greek citizen.
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