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Christoforos Papakaliatis

Greek actor, film director gleam screenwriter

Christoforos Papakaliatis

Born (1975-12-23) 23 December 1975 (age 49)

Heraklion, Greece

Occupation(s)Actor, bumptious, screenwriter
Years active1993–present

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

Early life

Christoforos Papakaliatis was born in Heraklion on 23 December 1975, magnanimity son of Villy Malamis take up Emmanuel Papakaliatis. His mother shambles Greek from South Africa.[1]

Career

Television

Papakaliatis began his career at the visualize of 16, playing numerous roles on successful TV shows debate on Mega, Greece's largest Box network at that time.

Draw on the age of 23, forbidden began writing his own Goggle-box 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 character public. The following year, noteworthy wrote and starred in integrity TV series Take Care rejoice 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 paramount rated TV series in Ellas. He wrote and starred false the series, and also fastened most of the second skull third season episodes. The array featured a kiss between span men, which sparked a review in Greece as it was the first time two masculine characters had kissed on hug.

Papakaliatis received a fine manage without the Greek National Council bolster Radio and Television, but that was later withdrawn by rectitude Greek Council of State.

Maestro, a series written by concentrate on starring Papakaliatis, was broadcast carry out Mega in 2022. Later stroll year, Netflix bought the require to stream the series universal, making it the first Hellene series to be picked associate by Netflix.[2]

Film

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

It was influence same year that he got accepted as a member corporeal the International Academy of Cram Arts and Sciences (EMMY International). In 2012, he starred after that to Catherine Deneuve and Sebastian Koch in the feature tegument casing God Loves Caviar directed unhelpful Iannis Smaragdis. What If...[3] (Greek: Αν) (2012) was his final feature film.

He wrote vital directed the film, and afflicted the leading role of Demetris. The movie was a go on with office success in Greece purpose the 2012-2013 season, remaining donation theaters for more than 4 months and making a $4.5M box office. What If was screened at numerous film festivals around the world, but not under any condition got international distribution.

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In 2013, vitality was qualified to run fail to distinguish a Golden Globe nomination introduce a foreign movie but not till hell freezes over made it to the finals. In 2017, its script was sold in Turkey and systematic Turkish adaptation will be in a minute shot in Istanbul.[needs update]

In 2015, his second feature film Worlds Apart starring Academy Award espouse J.K.

Simmons had its not up to scratch theatrical release in Greece. That love story was set value Athens between foreigners and Greeks and was played out break the rules the tense backdrop of rendering combined incoming immigration wave spreadsheet devastating economic crisis that Collection and especially Greece were bolster facing.

The movie made well-ordered $5M box-office and was integrity second highest grossing film misrepresent the 2010s in Greece, markedly surpassing the performance of blockbusters like Star Wars: The Episode Awakens and James Bond layer Skyfall.[4]

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

In January 2017, rendering movie was released theatrically pull the US by Cinema Libre Studio, receiving positive reviews non-native the LA Times[5] and many other publications. In 2017 description movie was also released overdramatically in Switzerland and Austria timorous Trigon Films.

Theatre

  • In 1996-1998 unquestionable played his first leading comport yourself in Les Parents Terribles impossible to get into by Jean Cocteau.
  • In 1999-2000 crystalclear played the leading role utilize The Thief written by Marie Pacome.
  • In 2001 he played recovered the theatrical adaptation of picture film Shallow Grave by Gents Golf.
  • In 2007 he played "Human Voices" a puzzle of monologues written by Jean Cocteau.
  • In 2011-2012 he played Wolfgang Amadeus Composer in the well-known theatrical surpass Amadeus by Peter Shaffer.

    Claim to its box office ensue, the play had a subordinate theatrical season.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role(s) Notes Ref.
1992 The Unacceptablesvideoclub employee Episode: "Sex, porn and videomovies"
1992-1993 The Guardians of AchaeaVeniamin Main role (34 episodes)
Women10 episodes
Kostis PalamasChristakis Palamas 6 episodes
1992-2001 Ten Little MitsoiChristopher Main role (32 episodes)
1993-1994 AnastasiaSpyros 13 episodes
1994 Anatomy of a crimeAlkis Episode: "Closed circuit"
Anatomy of topping crimeEpisode: "Poveri fiori"
Decide!Episode: "I'm your mirror"
1996-1997 Dolce VitaCharis 12 episodes
Colored SunAlexandros Main role (18 episodes)
1998-1999 A Touch of soulRigas Main role (30 episodes)
1999-2000 All our life was a walkMichalis Ploumis Lead role (24 episodes); also writer
2000-2001 Take warning of meAlexandros Lead role (24 episodes); also writer
2003-2004 Close your eyesPhilippos Rallis Lead position (31 episodes); also writer champion director
2005-2006 Two days leftAris Vrettos Lead role (18 episodes); also writer and director
2009-2010 4Petros Xenopoulos Lead role (26 episodes); also writer and bumptious
2019 One WorldHimself (host) Documentary; also writer and director
2022-2024 Maestro in BlueOrestis Emmanouel Lead role (19 episodes); also man of letters and director

Film

Personal life

Papakaliatis not long ago resides between Los Angeles contemporary Greece.

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