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Thanos Samaras is a Actor Grec born on 8 june 1973
Thanos Samaras (born 6 August 1973) is a Greek-born film and theater actor based in New York City.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Before attending drama school, he studied Art & Design at London Guildhall University and was working towards a bachelor's degree in Architecture, only to drop out upon getting accepted at RADA. He later attended the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, while doing an internship at Richard Foreman's famed avant-guard Ontological Theater, in Saint Mark's Square.
He has starred in Greek films including Atlas (2004), Delivery (2005, Official Selection Venice Film Festival), Valse Sentimentale (2007, National Film Awards nomination Best Actor), Homeland (2010, Hellenic Film Academy Awards nomination Best Actor), Tied Red Thread (2011) and most recently in the Australian film Dead Europe.
Some of his stage work includes Anton in Marius von Mayenburg's Eldorado, Treplyov in Chekhov's The Seagull, Carl in Sarah Kane's Cleansed (Horn award nomination for Best New Actor), Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts, Darren in Gary Owen's The Drowned World a.o.
Under the alias "Yatabazah" he designs, restores and photographs toys. His work has been featured in Japanese and American magazines and books. In 2008, he had his first exhibition of doll photographs in Tokyo.
Has been repeatedly voted by the Greek press to be among the 10 most stylish Greek men.
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He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Before attending drama school, he studied Art & Design at London Guildhall University and was working towards a bachelor's degree in Architecture, only to drop out upon getting accepted at RADA. He later attended the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, while doing an internship at Richard Foreman's famed avant-guard Ontological Theater, in Saint Mark's Square.
He has starred in Greek films including Atlas (2004), Delivery (2005, Official Selection Venice Film Festival), Valse Sentimentale (2007, National Film Awards nomination Best Actor), Homeland (2010, Hellenic Film Academy Awards nomination Best Actor), Tied Red Thread (2011) and most recently in the Australian film Dead Europe.
Some of his stage work includes Anton in Marius von Mayenburg's Eldorado, Treplyov in Chekhov's The Seagull, Carl in Sarah Kane's Cleansed (Horn award nomination for Best New Actor), Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts, Darren in Gary Owen's The Drowned World a.o.
Under the alias "Yatabazah" he designs, restores and photographs toys. His work has been featured in Japanese and American magazines and books. In 2008, he had his first exhibition of doll photographs in Tokyo.
Has been repeatedly voted by the Greek press to be among the 10 most stylish Greek men.
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Dead Europe (2012)
, 1h24Genres Drama
Actors Ewen Leslie, Marton Csokas, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jean-François Balmer, Yigal Naor, Françoise Lebrun
Roles Andreas
Rating54%
Homeland (2010)
, 1h46Directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Thanos Samaras
Roles Stergios
Rating53%
Gena, constamment au chômage, est jugée incapable de s'occuper de ses enfants par le reste de sa famille qui la considère à moitié folle. La famille lui enlève son plus jeune fils. Il sera élevé par le frère de Gena, qui lui a réussi. Il est enseignant à l'université. Il s'occupera de son neveu en même temps que de sa fille unique. La désintégration de la famille qui explose en multiples conflits est parallèle à celle de la Grèce qui s'enfonce dans la crise économique.
Homeland (2010)
, 1h51Directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas
Genres Drama
Actors Thanos Samaras
Roles Stergios
Rating53%
Bank Bang (2008)
Genres Comedy
Actors Kóstas Voutsás, Vassilis Charalampopoulos, Gerasimos Skiadaresis, Thanos Samaras
Roles Doukas
Rating60%
The story of the film revolves around two brothers Mixalis and Nodas who run a funeral office constantly making plans about how to make a lot of money. However, Nodas is in trouble with the Greek mafia and owes them a large sum of money. He suggests to Mixalis to start robbing banks in order to pay off his debt. Things start getting complicated when the chief of police, in order to deal with the rising number of bank robberies,places undercover police officers in every bank in the country. The situation goes out of control when Mixalis falls in love with a bank employee who has a rather graphical family life.