Yannis Stankoglou
Birthday: Born in 1974-01-10 in Thourio, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Yannis (or Yiannis) Stankoglou (Greek: Γιάννης Στάνκογλου; born 10 January 1974) is a Greek actor. Yannis Stankoglou was born in Athens, and worked as a builder and construction worker in his teens, before discovering theatre. He attended the Athens Drama School and went on to study and work in New York, later returning to Greece to become a major figure in the theatre industry. Stankoglou works in Greece, Europe and the United States. He has toured internationally with productions of Greek tragedy and modern works, representing Greek theatre in China, Latin America, and Russia.
TV Credits
Άγιος Παΐσιος, Από τα Φάρασα στον Ουρανό
Character: Shepherd Thodoros
The series presents the life of Saint Paisios and his family and records his path to monasticism. The shooting took place in places where Saint Paisios lived, such as Konitsa and Mount Athos, Greece....
Ο Όρκος
Character: Άγγελος Ράπτης
Angelos Raptis, perhaps the best general surgeon in Greece, is a recognized scientist in a happy marriage to lawyer Iro Anagnostopoulou, with whom they have a brilliant daughter, Melina. The countdown begins on the night of his birthday, on duty, when he is brought dead, from a car accident, his wife and daughter, who were helpless on the road for many hours. Angelos loses everything in one night: his family and his faith. This leads him to deny reality but also life....
Το Ναυάγιο
Character: Ippokratis Panopoulos
The sea has the power to unite, but also the cruelty to separate people forever. A country like Greece, with the sea and boat trips written in its DNA from ancient times to today....
Το Νησί
Character: Andreas Vandoulakis
Based on the best-selling English novel The Island by Victoria Hislop, the series takes place on the island of Spinalonga, off the coast of Crete, and in the village of Plaka which lies within swimming distance across it. The series premiered on 11 October 2010 to record ratings and critical acclaim. It is the most expensive Greek television production ever with a budget of €4 million....
Αυτή η Νύχτα Μένει
Character: Χρήστος
The lives of different people and also different worlds are entangled. Of the night and the margin on the one hand, of the day and the legal order on the other. The two worlds will come together to clash to the death. As everyone's secrets are revealed and losses pile up on both sides, a great love will be born from the ashes and people will discover who the world around them really is as well as themselves. Because beneath the cruelty and hypocrisy, the fate of all of us is common....
Μια Νύχτα του Αυγούστου
Character: Andreas Vandoulakis
The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover....
10η Εντολή
Character: Waiter
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Φαντασία
Character: Nikos Kokkinos
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Ποιος μας πιάνει!
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Κλείσε τα Μάτια
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Two friends who study in London come back to Greece for their vacation. Fillipos, one of them, falls for a married woman. Soon he meets her daughter who also studies in London and the mix up begins....
Άγριες Μέλισσες
Character: Thomas Kypraios
Every time a daughter was born, the father of Eleni, Asimina and Froso planted a poplar tree at the edge of their orchard to commemorate the arrival of the new child. As they grew and grew tall and slender, he boasted of them as his daughters. In the proudest poplar, however, Helen's poplar, a swarm of wild bees had already nested. "You will be happy, my daughter, and life will be as sweet as this honey. You'll see," her father used to tell her. But, the years passed and Eleni looked at the popl...
Σχεδόν Ενήλικες
Character: Αποστόλης
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1 Μήνας Και Κάτι
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Αρχελάου 5
Character: Ματθαίος
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ΑΡΧΕΛΑΟΥ 5
Character: Ματθαιος
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Movie Credits
The Christmas Tango
Character: Stefanos Karamanidis
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him....
Wild Duck
Character: Manos
“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear hi...
Hostage
Character: Grigoris
Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion....
Xenia
Character: Lefteris
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away....
A Dog's Dream
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During a strange night, a prostitute, an opera singer, a fortune teller, a travel agent, a police chief and an insomniac meet by chance....
The Last Journey
Character: Captain
Andreas is on the verge of retirement. His weathered body has taken a beating from all of the years that he has spent at sea. This is his last journey. He will be forced to confront both his fears as well as his hidden desires....
BASTARDS
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The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards....
Blind Sun
Character: Le policier
Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check......
Traffic Flow: Normal
Character: Nikos
In the confined space of a typical school bus, two contrasting characters share an ordinary day on the road just before Christmas....
Semele
Character: Aris
Eleven-year-old Semele unexpectedly arrives at her father's worksite in Cyprus with a note from school that needs to be signed. This is an astutely observed, ultimately heart-rending story about a youngster whose fierce longing to be noticed is matched only by her determination to make it happen....
Invisible
Character: Άρης
Aris, a 38-year-old worker in a factory is fired without any warning. He is shocked. As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he gradually becomes obsessed with the idea of taking justice into his own hands. He buys a gun with the last of his money. He is ready to proceed with his goal when his ex-wife dumps their six-year-old son on him....
Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema
Character: Himself (Archive Footage)
The documentary Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema explores the role of the producer in the creative process of Greek cinema, highlighting the complexity and unseen creative role that distinguishes this special profession....
Blood Ties
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Margarita works as a flight assistant. Her life is divided between travels and the care of her sick father. When he dies, she decides to make a fresh start to her life. She begins a trip to Northern Greece seeking......
Illusion
Character: Manos
Sotiris is a financial editor at a local newspaper, living a mundane life, until he locks eyes with the gorgeous Olga at a Russian expat Christmas party. Unable to get her out his head, he starts looking for the girl of his dreams, only to find himself immersed in a dark and dangerous world, where the difference between illusion and reality will soon be made abundantly clear.With Zenia Kaplan as the proverbial femme fatale, Savvas Karydas explores the twin concepts of escape/dream and dead-end/d...
Amerika Square
Character: Billy
Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek....
Pandora
Character: Manos
(Aka 'Pandora') Vissilis wanders around in the dilapidated house, where he was raised by his uncle Kostis. His mind is floded with memories of a time long-gone....
Aria
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Athens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father....
Without
Character: Promotion supervisor
A contemporary married couple and their eight-year-old son are exposed to our observation. The husband, around 35, works as a tax specialist for an import-export firm. His 30-year-old wife looks after their child and their home. The man's impending promotion at work triggers their dreams of social advancement and financial improvement. As their plain everyday life unfolds the characters are denuded to reveal their different needs and desires which render their functioning and communication incre...
The Waiter
Character: The Blond
Renos is an old-time waiter with a meticulous routine. He is a loner and an avid collector of information. His repetitive daily routine liberates him from the agony of pursuing the unknown. The unexpected events that invade his life hide many surprises....
Include Women Out
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A comic road movie about a late adulthood. On a summer weekend two old schoolmates in their early forties start a road journey in search of their old classmate Nadia, who has joined a convent somewhere in the south of Greece....
Ki An Fygo Tha Ksanartho
Character: Markos
Hope lives with her husband on the mountain, and all summer makes charcoal in a kiln in the heart of the forest. When it reaches the village the recently released from prison Marco, under the pretext of the foot treatment, hanging out every day, and promises to take her back home, Kavala, which has much nostalgia....
Fantasia
Character: Νίκος Κόκκινος
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The Republic
Character: Efthymiadis
A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother....
Man of God
Character: Spiros
Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God....
Real Life
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Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey... His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Ath...
Ouzeri Tsitsanis
Character: Jaco Beza
During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations and hardship? The story mainly takes place in an ouzeria, in which Tsitsanis works, one of the greatest Greek composer, librettist and singer in the 20th century....
Hardcore
Character: Zois
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night....
The Island of Secrets
Character: Adrianas Vater
It was supposed to be just an ordinary holiday on sunny Kos, but Toni has to rescue a beautiful local girl, a talented free-diver, from the clutches of kidnappers. When it appears that nobody else can be trusted, Toni must reluctantly rely on his step-brothers' assistance....
Η Κόρη του Ρέμπραντ
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The After Life
Character: Michalis
Michalis, unable to accept the loss of his wife, keeps cooking every day for two dishes, in a vain effort to keep her memory alive. Despite the efforts of his brother-in-law, he retreats to himself and his cooking routine. But, suddenly, the "other" dish starts being consumed daily......
Βασίλης Καραγιώργος
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