Nick Giannopoulos
Birthday: Born in 1963-07-01 in Melbourne, Australia
Deathday: Alive
Nicholas Giannopoulos is an Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and film director of Greek descent.
TV Credits
Acropolis Now
Character: Jim
Acropolis Now was an Australian sitcom set in a Greek cafe in Melbourne of the same name that ran for 63 episodes from 1989 to 1992 on the Seven Network. It was created by Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares, who also starred in the series. They were already quite well known for their comedy stage show, Wogs out of Work. The title is a play on the film Apocalypse Now. Each episode was 30 minutes in length and filmed in front of a live audience. Jim's father asks him to run ...
Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers
Character: Hector
The story follows a group of children and their adventures in outback Australia. The title character of the series, Li'l Elvis, is a ten-year-old boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Lil Elvis has a gift for music, a talent for trouble and a desire for only one thing - to find out who he really is and be a normal kid again. The opening sequence and music reveal that he was thrown out of a gold Cadillac in a guitar case, hinting that he is the illegitimate child of Elvis Presley. He...
Movie Credits
Wog Boy 2: The Kings of Mykonos
Character: Steve Karamitsis
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis. His one true love—a '69 Valiant Pacer—and all his assets have just been seized by Federal Police because he trusted the shady Tony the Yugoslav, and Steve's best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortune favours the 'Wog' when Steve discovers that he's inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met—a beach worth millions....
The Wog Boy
Character: Steve Karamitsis / Mr. Karamitsis / Mrs. Karamitsis
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to Celia, to himself, and to the whole country, that there's more to him than meets the eye. With a little help from his friends, he might just do it....
The Wannabes
Character: Danny
The world's worst actor Danny, meets the world's worst crook Marcus and their lives are changed forever......
Wog Boys Forever
Character: Steve Karamitsis
Steve is still single and working as a taxi driver. Brianna Beagle-Thorpe, the Minister for Immigration, hatches a plan with her brother to exact their revenge on Steve for destroying their late mother Raelene's political career....
Mull
Character: George
A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, which turns outto be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experimentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability....
Fat Pizza vs Housos
Character: Taxi Driver
After fifteen years, pizza chef Bobo is released from prison. Rent has gone up so the only shop Bobo can afford is in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale....
Hazard
Character: Georgios (voice)
Noah loves his girlfriend Lea and their daughter Zita dearly, just about as much as his extremely pimped car with vanity plate “H4Z4RD”. When his cousin offers him a seemingly simple job as a driver, it soon turns into an unlikely and nerve-racking race through Antwerp, which can only result in the end of Noah, his family or the car…...