Andrea Demetriades

Andrea Demetriades is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.

Personal life

Demetriades was born in Perth in 1983, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus in 1969 and met her mother, Athena. Athena was born in Perth but her father was from Andros, Greece. Athena is an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.[1]

Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.[2]

Television

Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies.[3] She reprised the role for the spin-off series Janet King in 2014 and 2016. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013.

Demetriades appeared in the critically acclaimed 2015 Australian drama series The Principal as Hafa Habeb.[4]

Film and theatre

Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block. Her theatre roles include Bell Shakespeare's Pericles, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award and she toured Australia in Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.[1]

Demetriades is one of the main protagonists in the 2015 film Alex & Eve which has been likened to a modern Romeo and Juliet and My Big Fat Greek Wedding but taken to the next level. The movie is about dating in a multicultural landscape, in this case a Greek (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano) and a Muslim Lebanese (Eve, played by Andrea Demetriades).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Blake, Elissa (21 January 2012). "Interview: Andrea Demetriades". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media.
  2. ↑ "Blind Date". Blind Date.
  3. ↑ "Lina Badir - Characters - Crownies - ABC TV". abc.net.au. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Principal". TV Tonight. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Buckmaster, Luke (22 October 2015). "Alex & Eve review – cultural clashes and baklava in a Greek-Lebanese love story". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited.

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