page_title: Greek Australians
section_title: Film, theatre, and television
hierarchical_section_title: Greek Australians / Notable individuals / Film, theatre, and television
caption_attribution_description: English: George Miller at the Warner Bros. premiere of Mad Max: Fury Road in Los Angeles
context_page_description: Greek Australians comprise Australians who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who sought asylum as refugees after the Greek Civil War or emigrated from Greece and reside in Australia. The 2016 census recorded 397,431 people of Hellenic/ Greek ancestry, and 93,740 born in Greece, making Australia home to one of the largest Greek communities in the world.
  Greeks are the seventh largest ethnic group in Australia. In the 2011 census, 378,270 people reported to have Greek ancestry, either exclusively or in combination with another ethnic group, up from 365,147 in the 2006 census which recorded 125,849 people born in Greece. Also, the 2016 census recorded 16,929 people born in Cyprus and 28,991 people with Cypriot ancestry. The 2011 census recorded 18,070 people born in Cyprus and 22,680 people with Cypriot ancestry. The 2006 census recorded 18,369 people born in Cyprus and 29,005 people of Cypriot ancestry. Greeks, Cypriots and Vlachs in Australia collectively total 422,234 people.
  Greek immigration to Australia has been one of the largest migratory flows in the history of Australia, especially after World War II and Greek Civil War.
context_section_description: Peter Andrikidis – director, Underbelly
  Alex Andreas - actor
  Alex Blias – actor
  Alex Papps - actor, Play School (Australian TV series)
  Elena Carapetis – actress
  Gia Carides – actress
  Zoe Carides – actress
  Wayne Coles-Janess – director and producer
  Chantal Contouri – actress
  Mary Coustas – comedian
  Alex Dimitriades – actor
  Rebekah Elmaloglou – actress, Home and Away and Neighbours
  Sebastian Elmaloglou – actor, Home and Away, brother of Rebekah
  Damien Fotiou – actor
  Nick Giannopoulos – actor and director
  Diana Glenn – actress
  George Houvardas – actor, Packed to the Rafters
  Hugh Jackman – Actor
  George Kapiniaris – actor and comedian
  Peter Kelamis – comedian
  Costas Kilias - actor
  Ana Kokkinos – director
  Nico Lathouris – actor
  Costas Mandylor – actor
  Louis Mandylor – actor
  Lex Marinos – actor, director, writer and broadcaster
  Harry Michaels – actor (TV series: Number 96) producer (Exercise Video: Aerobics Oz Style), Sports TV Director
  Bill Miller – director and producer
  George Miller – Academy Award-winning director and producer, Babe, Happy Feet, Mad Max: Fury Road
  Ada Nicodemou – actress, Home and Away
  Phaedra Nicolaidis – actress
  Tony Nikolakopoulos – actor and director
  Socratis Otto actor, best known for his roles in television series Young Lions as Justin Carmody and Wentworth as Maxine Conway
  Alex Papps – actor and Play School host
  Thaao Penghlis – actor (has played Tony DiMera and André DiMera on American soap opera Days of Our Lives)
  Alex Proyas – director, I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow, Knowing
  Gina Riley – actress, Kath & Kim, comedienne, entertainer and singer
  Nathan Saidden – comedian
  George Spartels – actor
  Nadia Tass – director
  John Tatoulis – director and producer
  Maria Theodorakis – actress
  Alkinos Tsilimidos – director
  Antonis Tsonis - writer and director
  Olympia Valance – model and actress, Neighbours
  Zoe Ventoura – actress
  Helen Zerefos – actress and cabaret singer
caption: George Miller, director of Babe (1995), Happy Feet (2006), and  Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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