Nia Vardalos Profile

Full Name:Nia Vardalos - Contact Nia Vardalos
Birth Name:Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
Famous As: Actress, screenwriter, producer
Date of Birth: September 24, 1962
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Height: 5' 6
Nationality: Canadian

Nia Vardalos News and Gossip

Nia Vardalos Gossip

Contact Nia Vardalos
CLICK HERE!!

Nia Vardalos
Video

Next

Clip Nia Vardalos took her one-woman play about the pitfalls of interracial marriage and turned it into her noteworthy debut screenplay for My Big Fat ... Video
Filename: Screenwriter NIA VARDALOS: Tricks of the Trade
Clip Today on This Week In Youtube #49, Nia Vardalos becomes our sexy middle frame, Shira meets the legendary Beaker, and Bret Michaels gets laid out ... Video
Filename: Nia Vardalos Is Our Sexy Celebrity, Shira Meets Beaker, and ...
Clip First, Jon Meacham of
Filename: Charlie Rose: December 17, 2002
Clip http://www.binsidetv.net http://twitter.com/binsidetv My Big Fat Greek Wedding star, Nia Vardalos stars in the romantic comedy My Life In ... Video
Filename: MY LIFE IN RUINS MOVIE REVIEW NIA VARDALOS INTERVIEW
Clip Nia Vardalos from My Life In Ruins vists Good Morning America on June 1, 2009 Video
Filename: Nia Vardalos Interview On Good Morning America 06/01/2009
Clip Nia Vardalos - The Spiritual Side of Hollywood Video
Filename: Nia Vardalos - The Spiritual Side of Hollywood
Clip Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson & Nia Vardalos at the LAGREEKFEST Video
Filename: Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson & Nia Vardalos at the LAGREEKFEST
Clip Nia Vardalos took her one-woman play about the pitfalls of interracial marriage and turned it into her noteworthy debut screenplay for My Big Fat ... Video
Filename: Screenwriter NIA VARDALOS: Tricks of the Trade

Nia Vardalos
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Nia Vardalos

Vardalos at the Connie and Carla premiere on the Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, April 2004
Born Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
September 24, 1962 (1962-09-24) (age 46)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Years active 1996–present
Spouse(s) Ian Gomez (1993–present)

Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter and producer.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Vardalos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Greek Canadian parents Doreen, a bookkeeper and homemaker, and Constantine "Gus" Vardalos, a land developer.1234 She attended Shaftesbury High School and Ryerson University.5 Vardalos married actor Ian Gomez on September 5, 1993 (her husband converted to the Greek Orthodox religion prior to marrying her). They have recently adopted a daughter, and she has written a post with advice about the adoption process at The Huffington Post.6 She became a dual citizen of the U.S. in 1999.

Career

Vardalos had done many different works but gained almost overnight success with her movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The success of the movie led to an unsuccessful television series on CBS, called My Big Fat Greek Life. Except for John Corbett, this series featured the original movie cast. In 2004 she followed it up with Connie and Carla, which co-starred Toni Collette. Vardalos and her husband have appeared together in both of those films, as well as Meet Prince Charming (1999). Vardalos also guest starred on The Drew Carey Show in 1997, where Gomez was a frequent guest star. Her next work was the movie My Life in Ruins, which arrived in theaters in 2009.

Vardalos is among many celebrities helping to produce The 1 Second Film art project.

Vardalos was featured in The Dialogue interview series. In this 90 minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca, Vardalos talks about how her experiences in the Second City comedy troupe helped her as an actress and a screenwriter, and how the unofficial "tell-the-Greek" word-of-mouth program had a hand in catapulting her movie to such great heights.

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1996 No Experience Necessary Sheila
1997 Men Seeking Women Iris
1999 Meet Prince Charming Jennifer
2002 My Big Fat Greek Wedding Toula Portokalos
2004 Connie and Carla Connie
  • also writer
2008 A Wilderness of Monkeys
2009 My Life In Ruins Georgia
  • writer
I Hate Valentine's Day7 Genevieve
  • writer and director
The 1 Second Film herself

Television

Year Show Role Notes
1996 High Incident uncredited
  • 1 episode - "Father Knows Best"
Common Law uncredited
  • 1 episode - "In the Matter of, Acceptance"
1997 Men Seeking Women Iris
The Drew Carey Show Grace Almada
  • 1 episode - "Strange Bedfellows"
1997 - 1998 Team Knight Rider Domino (voice)
  • appeared in 22 episodes
1998 - 1999 Boy Meets World uncredited
  • 2 episodes - "You're Married, You're Dead" (1998) and "Can I Help to Cheer You" (1999)
1999 It's Like, You Know... Mindy
  • 1 episode - "Memories of Me"
Two Guys and a Girl Evelyn
  • 1 episode - "Career Day"
2000 Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry's Lawyer
  • 1 episode - "Interior Decorator"
2002 Saturday Night Live Host
2003 My Big Fat Greek Life Nia Portokalos
  • writer and executive producer
  • 7 episodes
2008 My Boys Jo
  • 3 episodes - "Spit Take," "Take My Work Wife...Please," and "Dudes Being Dudes"

References

  1. ^ Greek goddess: but it wasn't always that way. Once told she was too frumpy to be a star, Nia Vardalos proves them wrong. | Redbook (April , 2003)
  2. ^ Sending up the Greek in spirit - theage.com.au
  3. ^ Nia Vardalos Biography (1962-)
  4. ^ USATODAY.com - 'Greek Wedding' marches on, much to Hollywood's surprise
  5. ^ Nia Vardalos Biography - Yahoo! Movies
  6. ^ Nia Vardalos. "The List". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nia-vardalos/the-list_b_161241.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-28. 
  7. ^ Nia Vardalos To Reunite With John Corbett In Another Romantic Comedy | AHN | August 9, 2008

External links