Tzeni Karezi (Greek: Τζένη Καρέζη, January 12, 1932 - July 27, 1992) was a Greek film and theatre actress. She was considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of the cinema of Greece. Tzeni (or Jenny) Karezi was born Evgenia Karpouzi, in Athens, to highly educated parents; her father was a mathematician and her mother a high school teacher. She studied under the direction of nuns in a private French school in Thessaloniki and as a result she spoke French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother.