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Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Personal life
Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus to Australia in 1969 and there met his future wife, Athena—who was from Perth, her father from Andros, Greece. Athena was an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.
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 with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.
Television
Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies. 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. In 2017 she starred in both the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Pulse as Doctor Lou Tannis. In 2018 she also starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Squinters.
In 2024, Demetriades was named for ABC series Return to Paradise.
Theatre
Demetriades' theatrical work has included a role in Bell Shakespeare's Pericles—for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award—and an Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.
Film
Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block (both 2013). In the 2015 comedy-drama Alex & Eve, she starred as Eve, a Muslim Lebanese lawyer dating a Greek Australian schoolteacher (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano).
Filmography
= Film
== Television
=References
Further reading
Andrea Demetriades feeling right at home in STC's Perplex. The Daily Telegraph.
Andrea Demetriades on a Shaw thing for return to STC main stage. The Daily Telegraph.
At home with actress Andrea Demetriades. The Daily Telegraph.
External links
Demetriades, Andrea at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Around the Block (film)
- Andrea Demetriades
- Andrea
- Demetriades
- Return to Paradise (2024 TV series)
- Home, I'm Darling
- The Artful Dodger (2023 TV series)
- Richard Brancatisano
- Alex & Eve
- National Institute of Dramatic Art
- John Bluthal
