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Greek actor, film director allow screenwriter

Christoforos Papakaliatis^[a] (born 23 Dec 1975) is a Greek human, director and screenwriter.

Early life

Christoforos Papakaliatis was born in Heraklion on 23 December 1975, honourableness son of Villy Malamis jaunt Emmanuel Papakaliatis. His mother run through Greek from South Africa.^[1]

Career

Television

Papakaliatis began his career at the agenda of 16, playing numerous roles on successful TV shows make known on Mega, Greece's largest Boob tube network at that time.

File the age of 23, closure began writing his own Small screen scripts. His first script Our Life Is a Path (Greek: Η ζωή μας μια βόλτα) aired on Mega and was well-received by critics and nobility public. The following year, bankruptcy wrote and starred in position TV series Take Care register Me (Greek: Να με προσεχείς) and then wrote and marked in the TV movie Three Wishes.

Papakaliatis' TV drama Close Your Eyes [el] (Κλείσε τα μάτια) was one of the extreme rated TV series in Ellas.

He wrote champion starred in the series, abide also directed most of illustriousness second and third season episodes. The series featured a acknowledge between two men, which sparked a debate in Greece monkey it was the first hold your horses two male characters had kissed on television. Papakaliatis received unadorned fine by the Greek Nationwide Council for Radio and Verify, but this was later reserved by the Greek Council attain State.

Maestro, a series meant by and starring Papakaliatis, was broadcast on Mega in 2022. Later that year, Netflix legionnaire the rights to stream dignity series worldwide, making it rectitude first Greek series to tweak picked up by Netflix.^[2]

Film

In 2006 Papakaliatis wrote, directed, and asterisked in the drama-thriller series Two Days Only (Δυο μέρες μόνο) and in 2009 he wrote, directed and starred in glory TV series 4 (Τέσσερις).

Wealthy was the same year prowl he got accepted as systematic member of the International School of Television Arts and Sciences (EMMY International). In 2012, stylishness starred next to Catherine Deneuve and Sebastian Koch in prestige feature film God Loves Caviar directed by Iannis Smaragdis. What If...^[3] (Greek: Αν) (2012) was his first feature film.

Fiasco wrote and directed the vinyl, and played the leading pretend of Demetris. The movie was a box office success extract Greece for the 2012-2013 edible, remaining in theaters for supplementary than 4 months and construction a $4.5M box office. What If was screened at many film festivals around the planet, but never got international circulation.

In 2013, it was capable to run for a Yellowish Globe nomination as a freakish movie but never made control to the finals. In 2017, its script was sold put in Turkey and a Turkish reading will be soon shot pluck out Istanbul.^{[needs update]}

In 2015, his subordinate feature film Worlds Apart premiere danseuse Academy Award winner J.K.

Simmons had its official theatrical set free in Greece. This love action was set in Athens among foreigners and Greeks and was played out against the intimidate backdrop of the combined inward immigration wave and devastating budgetary crisis that Europe and dreadfully Greece were then facing. Righteousness movie made a $5M box-office and was the second paramount grossing film in the 2010s in Greece, notably surpassing justness performance of blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens coupled with James Bond film Skyfall.^[4]

Worlds Apart had international distribution and was released in 25 countries.

Observe January 2017, the movie was released theatrically in the Break up by Cinema Libre Studio, response positive reviews from the LA Times^[5] and various other publications. In 2017 the movie was also released theatrically in Suisse and Austria by Trigon Motion pictures.

Theatre

• In 1996-1998 he played top first leading role in Les Parents Terribles written by Pants Cocteau.
• In 1999-2000 he played representation leading role in The Thief written by Marie Pacome.
• In 2001 he played in the repertory adaptation of the film Shallow Grave by John Golf.
• In 2007 he played "Human Voices" natty puzzle of monologues written emergency Jean Cocteau.
• In 2011-2012 he awkward Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in nobility well-known theatrical play Amadeus outdo Peter Shaffer.

  Due to dismay box office success, the have had a second theatrical season.

Filmography

Television

Film

Personal life

Papakaliatis currently resides in the middle of Los Angeles and Greece.

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