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Elias Koteas – Canadian/US movie actor; Peter Lupus – bodybuilder and actor, best remembered for the role of Willy Armitage in the original Mission: Impossible television series in the 1960s; Ralph Macchio – father is of half-Italian and half-Greek descent [28] George Maharis [29] Rami Malek – American movie actor of partial Greek ...
Rita Wilson (birth name is Margarita Ibrahimoff) was born on October 26, 1956 in Los Angeles. [5] Her mother, Dorothea Tzigkou (Greek: Δωροθέα Τζίγκου), was Greek, raised in Sotirë near Dropull i Sipërm in Albania, close to the border with Greece. [6]
Sophia Loren received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Two Women and a Best Actress nomination for Marriage Italian Style.. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for non-English performances in films, with the first award given in 1961.
Melina Eleni Kanakaredes Constantinides (Greek: Μελίνα Ελένη Κανακαρίδη Κωνσταντινίδη; born April 23, 1967) is a Greek-American actress.. She is widely known for her roles in American primetime television dramas as Dr. Sydney Hansen in Providence (1999–2002), as Detective Stella Bonasera in CSI: NY (2004–2010), and on the American daytime television drama ...
My Big Fat Greek Wedding hit theaters in 2002 and followed the life of Toula, a 30-year-old Greek woman living in Chicago, who marries a non-Greek man, Ian, amid her family’s objections.The
Cacoyannis is Cypriot-born Greek. 1995: George Miller: Babe: Nominated Miller is an Australia of Greek descent. Shared with Doug Mitchell and Bill Miller. 2011: Alexander Payne: The Descendants: Nominated Payne is American-born Greek. Shared with Jim Burke and Jim Taylor. 2013: Anthony Katagas: 12 Years a Slave: Won Katagas is an American of ...
Aristotelis Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Σαβάλας) [6] was born in Garden City, New York, on January 21, 1922, the second of five children born to Greek parents Christina (née Kapsalis), an artist who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas, a restaurant owner.
The Movie) is a 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name. The film is based on the songs of pop group ABBA , with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson .