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Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta, his first feature film, played at Toronto and Berlin film festivals to critical acclaim. His second feature Dogtooth, won the "Un Certain Regard prize" at the 2009 Cannes film festival, followed by numerous awards at festivals worldwide. It was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award (Oscar) in 2011. Alps won the "Osella for best screenplay" at the 2011 Venice film festival and Best Film at the Sydney film festival in 2012. His first English language film The Lobster was presented in Competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Moreover, "The Lobster" was nominated for the (Oscar about the) Best Original Screenplay by the Academy and won Best Screenplay and Best Costume Design at the European Film Awards of 2015. His fifth project "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" was also presented in Competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for the best Screenplay. Lanthimos's last film "The Favorite" is a historical Drama about the British Queen Anne.

Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a schoolgirl, she was very shy. To help her overcome this, her parents had Kim study ballet from an early age. By the time she reached sweet sixteen, the once-shy Kim entered the Athens Junior Miss contest. From there, she went on to win the Junior Miss Georgia title, and traveled to New York to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. Kim, who had blossomed to a 5' 7" beauty, was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model commanding $1,000 a day. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads, most notably as the Breck girl. Kim took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, performed in various Greenwich Village clubs, and she sang under the stage name Chelsea. Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1976, ready to conquer Hollywood. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as Charlie's Angels (1976). In 1980, she married Ron Snyder (they divorced in 1989). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). There was no long-orchestrated campaign on her part to snag this plum role, Kim was a last-minute replacement for Sean Young. This took her to a career high.

With perhaps too much disposable income, Kim headed up an investment group that purchased the entire town of Braselton, in her native Georgia, for $20 million (she would later have to sell it). In 1993, Kim married Alec Baldwin, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. Kim took some time off to stay at home with her child. Kim, who loves animals and is a strict vegetarian, devoted energy to animal rights issues, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), even posing for some ads. In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in the film noir classic L.A. Confidential (1997). Kim's salary for I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was $5,000,000, putting her firmly in the category of big-name movie star. And no doubt there are still many great things ahead, in the career of cover girl turned Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger.

Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and dropped out to pursue a career as an actor. Daniels made his feature film debut in Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981).

Daniels went on to prove himself to be one of Hollywood's most reliable and versatile actors with roles in successes such as Terms of Endearment (1983), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Something Wild (1986), Arachnophobia (1990), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002) and Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005), to name a few.

Alongside screen work, Daniels has many stage credits to his name and is the founder of The Purple Rose Theater Company in Chelsea, Michigan. He is also a musician and songwriter and has recorded two albums. Daniels is married to his childhood sweetheart, Kathleen Treado and they have three children.

Laura Wiggins is an American actress, singer and musician.She started acting in 2006 and appeared in series like Dance of the Dead and Eleventh Hour. She Attended Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, United States.Hobbies includes Philately, Creative writing, Creative writing.

Father : Mark Wiggins

Mother : Kathy Wiggins

Brother : Motie Wiggins

Tituss Burgess was born on 21 February 1979 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Central Park (2020), Dolemite Is My Name (2019) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015).

Ariane Labed (born 8 May 1984) is a Greek-born French actress and film director. She is best known for her feature film debut in Attenberg, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and appearing in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene in 2018.

Born to French parents, Ariane Labed lived her first six years in Athens, then six years in Germany. She arrived in France at 12 years old. Ariane Labed studied theater at the University of Provence (Deust Basic training in theater, Bachelor of Performing Arts and Master Dramaturgy and scenic writing). She participated in the creation of the Vasistas theater troupe with Argyro Chioti and went on stage with the National Theater of Greece.

Labed was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her performance in Attenberg, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, which was her debut film. She starred in the film Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. In 2018, she appeared as Rachel in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene.

James Ponsoldt was born on 5 September 1978 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Spectacular Now (2013), The Circle (2017) and The End of the Tour (2015). He has been married to Megan Holloway since 25 September 2010.

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper "Demokratiki Allaghi" until it was banned by the military after a coup d'état. Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970). Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Days of '36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1975), and The Hunters (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political.

Marquita Goings was born in Athens, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Woke (2020) and Behind the Movement (2018).

Born in Athens, Georgia as the middle of Rhonwyn and Larry Kendrick's three sons. He grew up in Smyrna, Georgia and graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor's degree in Communications. He worked as a Christian DJ for two radio stations before attending New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and being ordained into the ministry. He served as a minister to college students in Marietta, Georgia for four years.

After Kendrick married his wife Christina, they moved to Albany, Georgia where he served as Associate Pastor of Media at Sherwood Baptist Church. While there, he founded Sherwood Pictures and began acting in, writing, producing, and directing feature films. In 2015 he wrote and directed "War Room," which reached #1 at the box office. He also co-wrote seven novels and "The Love Dare," which made it to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Later he co-wrote the New York Times bestsellers "The Resolution for Men" and "The Battle Plan for Prayer". Alex and Christina now have six children.

Marianne Gordon was born on 23 July 1946 in Athens, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for Rosemary's Baby (1968), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) and The Being (1981). She was previously married to Kenny Rogers and Michael Trikilis.

Tommy Lee was born on 3 October 1962 in Athens, Greece. He is an actor and composer, known for Barb Wire (1996), The Dirt (2019) and Vanilla Sky (2001). He has been married to Brittany Furlan since 14 February 2019. He was previously married to Pamela Anderson, Heather Locklear and Elaine Margaret Starchuk.

Olga Karlatos was born on 20 April 1945 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for Purple Rain (1984), Zombie (1979) and Skin Deep (1979). She was previously married to Arthur Rankin Jr. and Nikos Papatakis.

Phedon Papamichael, an award winning Cinematographer, was born in Athens, Greece and moved with his family to Germany, where in 1982 he completed his education in Fine Arts, in Munich. Working as a photojournalist brought Phedon to NYC in 1983, where he started crossing over into cinematography.

His first short film, the 35mm black & white SPUD, earned him the Award for Best Cinematography at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland. Following a call from John Cassavetes, his cousin and later collaborator, Phedon moved to Los Angeles. While continuing to work on short and experimental films, he began his feature career as a Director of Photography for Roger Corman, for whom he photographed seven films within two years.

Phedon now counts over 40 feature films to his credit as Director of Photography, including the early block-busters While You Were Sleeping starring Sandra Bullock and Cool Runnings, as well as Phenomenon, starring John Travolta, all directed by Jon Turteltaub.

His credits include many critically acclaimed films, such as Unstrung Heroes (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 1995), directed by Diane Keaton, and Unhook the Stars, starring Gena Rowlands and directed by Nick Cassavetes.

The Million Dollar Hotel, directed by Wim Wenders, was chosen as the Opening Film of the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, the Silver Bear, as well as the Golden Camera. The European co-production, 27 Missing Kisses, directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker Nana Djordjadze, premiered at Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2000. It garnered the Grand Prix Award at the 2000 New York/Avignon Film Festival, the Audience Award at the 2000 Montpellier Film Festival, as well as the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography. In 2000 both films received a Camerimage nomination, for Best Cinematography.

In 2001 Phedon shot Moonlight Mile (Berlinale, 2003), directed by Brad Silberling, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter. It was followed by Identity, directed by James Mangold, and the Oscar-nominated Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne.

His credits continued with The Weatherman, directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine and Walk the Line, again directed by Mangold and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

Phedon shot the Academy Award nominated western 3:10 to Yuma, directed by James Mangold, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and the blockbuster Pursuit of Happyness. In 2008 he photographed Oliver Stone's W. and then re-teamed again with James Mangold on Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, which shot all over the world.

He shot two of the most award-winning films of 2011: Alexander Payne's The Descendants and The Ides of March, directed by George Clooney. This is 40, directed by Judd Apatow was released in 2012 and won Comedy of the Year from the Hollywood Film Festival.

For his gorgeous B&W lensing on the highly acclaimed Nebraska, which received 6 Academy Award nominations and was directed by Alexander Payne, Phedon received an Oscar nomination, a BAFTA nomination and an ASC nomination amongst other honors. His latest film is The Monuments Men, a period film directed by George Clooney, and starring Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin which was shot in Germany and England.

In addition to his feature work, Phedon has shot and/or directed over 100 commercials for such clients as Nespresso, BMW, Audi, and Nextel.

On the music video side, his work includes The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Eelectrical Storm, directed by Anton Corbijn.

Papamichael's work also includes several forays into television. He received an ASC Award Nomination for Best Cinematography for Oliver Stone's innovative mini-series Wild Palms, as well as his second ASC Award Nomination for Best Cinematography for the Francis Ford Coppola-produced pilot White Dwarf.

Phedon resides in Los Angeles and Athens, Greece and speaks fluent English, German, French and Greek. He holds German, Greek and U.S. citizenship.

Brittany Howard was born on 2 October 1988 in Athens, Alabama, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Joy (2015) and Everything, Everything (2017).

Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece on October 18, 1920. An early woman activist, she was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977. Later Miss Mercouri was to become the first woman to hold a Senior cabinet post "Minister of Culture" in the Greek government. In 1971 she wrote her autobiography titled "I Was Born Greek." Melina wed actor Jules Dassin in 1966 and remained married to him until her death in 1994. Melina Mercouri died of lung cancer in New York City, on March 6, 1994.

Jasper stars as "Rodney" opposite TV icon Charles Tilton, in the Horror/Thriller film, Final Recovery, worldwide distribution by Buffalo 8, premiering Spring 2025. He also Produced the film after a 15 year journey to production. He plays "Rusty" in the Horror film, Don't Turn Out The Lights, which premiered summer of 2024. He will soon be seen as "Jake" in the new film, LA Jesus, in 2025 and as "Lyle" the horror film, Savage Sisters, opposite Chelsea Tavares and her sister, Kylee Russell, distributed by Star Bound Studios. He is reuniting in 2025 with his Final recovery, DP/Editor, Nolan Elias, co-starring and producing, Elias's Directorial debut, One Night Outside of Hollywood with an incredible cast and crew.

Cole co-starred in the Lions Gate hit Thriller, Fall, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, written and directed by Scott Mann (Heist). The film received world wide praise and box office success with 2 sequels in the works. This film was one of the biggest releases of the summer. Jasper plays "Cory Black" on the hit Bet series, The Family Business, opposite Ernie Hudson. He was awarded Best Screen Villain by the International Nollywood Film Festival for that role. He Co-stars as "Theo" and executive produces the new dark comedy Amazon Prime/Pop Star Tv Series, Kombucha Cure, opposite Emmy winner Tamara Braun and Emmy nominated Denise Boutte. He was awarded Best Supporting Actor and the series has won 45 awards so far, including a Telly Award for Best Series. He also plays "Jaggar" in Season 2 of the hit Amazon comedy series, Smothered. opposite Jason Stuart. He stars as "Mike" and is a Producer on the new TV series, The Church of Mike, Executive produced by David Jeffery from Prison Break and Bones.

As a veteran character actor with over a 100 TV/film credits, Jasper continues his villainous streak having co-starred in the box office smash hit film, The Purge: Anarchy as a "Homeless Man" produced by Michael Bay and Jason Blum, in Captured, as "Shelly" starring Brittany Curran and Kristin Prout and Anyone Home? as "Walker" opposite Emmy winner Kathy Baker and Monique Gabriella Curnan. He played "Peter" in Awaken The Shadow man, starring Jean Smart. He appears as "Jacques De Leon" in the new Cbs Drama, Training Day, opposite Bill Paxton. He will also be seen Guest Starring in the 2017 season of American Horror Story and booked roles on Baskets and West World. Watch for him in 2019 as "Goobler" in the new series Palamino & Swissy" and he's also appearing as "Crack Head Fred" in the new Abc Series The Rookie. He also played a "Homeless Man" opposite Tatiana Ali in the Tv movie. Second Sight. He was seen in the third season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine as "The Oolong Slayer" opposite Andy Sandberg and Andre Baugher. Jasper also co-starred in the 2013 hit horror film, Hansel & Gretel as "John", iconic actress, Dee Wallace's son.

Jasper has appeared in dozens of theatrical productions and national TV commercials and has Guest Starred on some of television's top shows, including, C.S.I., Married With Children, Saved By The Bell, Touched by An Angel, Party Of Five, La Femme Nakita, Tales From The Crypt, Baywatch, Pacific Blue and Clueless. More recently, Jasper has obtained critical acclaim for his work on Michael Eisner's Emmy Nominated series, Prom Queen, his unforgettable stint on Everybody Hates Chris and his recurring role on the Abc series, The Forgotten, starring, Christian Slater. He has also guest starred on HBO's hit series Funny Or Die Presents and appeared regularly in various comedy sketches for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Film and Tv audiences will also remember Jasper as "Reno", the bad cowboy, in the award winning Showdown at Seven commercials for the popular movie website, Fandango, and he appeared in the popular national Direct Tv commercials opposite Rob Lowe. You can see him worldwide as a Pirate in the 1-800-contact commercials as well. Nickelodeon fans know Jasper as "Oswald" in the final season of their hit series Victorious and he appeared in several episodes of the hit syndicated series, Outlaw Empires.

Once established as Hollywood's "bad guy", it was a matter of time before Jasper graced the big screen. He has appeared in multiple films such as18 Again, Alien Nation, Get Your Stuff, Friday the 13th Part VIII, and Urban Assault-Tko. Jasper flaunted his sinister side and became an International sensation as Val Kilmer's sidekick, Zeke Pleshette" in the blockbuster MacGruber alongside Ryan Phillipe, Kristin Wiig and Will Forte. The film is gaining cult status on Dvd and TV. Jasper is also the host of the nationally syndicated Radio/TV show....One On One With Jasper Cole.

Alexandros Logothetis was born in Athens, Greece, in December 1970.

Graduated with Honours from the National Theater of Greece Drama School in 1991 and obtained a BA in Acting from the Arts Educational Schools London in 1999.

On the big screen, he has worked in more than 30 films, twice awarded at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the movies "Business in Balkans" (Best Actor) and "Totally Married" (Best Supporting Actor Award).

His work on television gave him popularity early on in his career and shows like "Women", "Anatomy of a Crime", "Stand by me", "The Sacrifice", and "Ten" allowed him to show his acting abilities on the small screen. In 2010 he starred in Victoria Hislop's international best seller "The Island", portraying Dr Kyritsis, a role that till today is linked with Alexandros in the mind of the audiences. In 2019 he co-starred in Adults in the Room as Manos, directed by Costa Gavras. In 2022 he co-starred in ''Magpie Murders'' as Andreas Patakis next to Lesley Manville, an Eleventh Hour, PBS Masterpiece, Britbox and Salt Films production directed by Peter Cattaneo.

In the theatre, Alexandros has worked with some of the most influential directors in Greece, like Stathis Livathinos, George Michailidis, Nikos Mastorakis, Stamatis Fasoulis, Io Voulgaraki, Cezaris Grauzinis.

Alexandros has been working in the performance industry for 33 years.

Gorgeous, buxom and voluptuous blonde knockout Suzi Simpson was born Susan Athena Simpson on November 16, 1968 in Athens, Greece. Her father was a Navy officer and her mother was a flight attendant. The eldest of four children, Simpson has two brothers and one sister. She has lived in such coastal areas as Maine, Florida, and California. A Roman Catholic, Suzi attended the all-girl St. Mary's Academy high school. In 1983 Simpson was voted the Homecoming Queen of Virginia Military Institute. In 1984 she won the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA Pageant. Suzi began modeling to raise money to go to dental school. She appeared in a TV commercial for Pepsi with Michael Jackson and was featured in the music video for "Love in an Elevator" by Aerosmith. Simpson was the Playmate of the Month in the January, 1992 issue of "Playboy." Suzi has appeared in several "Playboy" videos. Her most prominent film role was as federal agent Becky Midnite in the enjoyably lowbrow straight-to-video action picture "Enemy Gold." Suzi Simpson not only made a guest appearance on an episode of "Married with Children," but has also popped up in small parts in such movies as "St. Elmo's Fire," "Men at Work," "Red Surf," and "Rock Star."

Tonia Sotiropoulou was born on 28 April 1987 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and producer, known for Skyfall (2012), Hercules (2014) and Waiting Room (2018). She has been married to Kostis Maraveyas since 11 October 2021.

Michael Antonakos was born in Athens Greece. He moved to Canada at the age of three. Performing since since child hood, Michael spent his youth performing with the Rocky Mountain Shakespeare Company.

Upon leaving the University of Victoria for theatre, he moved to Vancouver B.C, where he began his on camera career in film and television. After landing his first video game 'Lord of the Rings: The Third Age'. Michael fell in love with motion capture and voice over, and because of his physical and vocal abilities to transform into other people/creatures he became well a known performance capture and animation actor. 20 years later Michael has become a leading figure in the industry playing Batman in Warmer Brothers 'Gotham Knights' and Alexios in one of Ubisofts most successful franchise Games 'Assassin's Creed Odyssey'. When not working on set Michael is training upcoming actors, and spending his free time being a husband and father.

Adam Gibbs was born on 15 June 1986 in Athens, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Parasyte: The Maxim (2014), Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and Venus Wars (1989). He has been married to Rebekah Stevens since 15 July 2013.

Quavo was born Quavious Keyate Marshall on April 2, 1991 in Athens, Georgia & raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Outside of Migos, Quavo has been featured on four singles that have peaked within the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including DJ Khaled's I'm the One and No Brainer the former of which reached number 1 along with Congratulations, which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. On October 12, 2018, he released his debut solo album, Quavo Huncho which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200.

Nico Minardos was born on 15 February 1930 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor and producer, known for Assault on Agathon (1976), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He was married to Julie Ann Schacht and Deborah Jean Smith Minardos. He died on 27 August 2011 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Daniela Amavia was born in Athens, Greece. Daniela is a director and writer, known for A Beautiful Now (2015), Get Lost and Children of Dune (2003). Daniela was previously married to Bernd F. Lunkewitz.