Yannis Tsortekis
Birthday: Born in 1967-01-01 in Athens, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Yiannis Tsortekis (Neo Psychiko, 1967) is a Greek actor and director of cinema, television and theatre. He was born and raised in Neo Psychiko, Athens. He is a graduate of the National Theater as well as a graduate of the Department of Theater Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras. He is widely known for his participation in the television adaptation of the short story "To 10" by Miltiadis Karagatsis on Alpha TV in the 2007-2008 season. Then followed some participations in the cinema, in the film "The Little Fish" and recently in the film "The Ballad of the Holey Heart". In 2021, he won the "Best Actor" award for his role in this film. In the 2021 season "Postcard" series on ERT1. In 2022 he returns and participates in three productions, in "Dark Sea", in "Maestro" by Christoforos Papakaliatis at MEGA and in the series "This night stays" at Alpha. In 2009 he was awarded the "Karolos Koon" award for his performance in the play "Black Calm" by Dimitris Maronitis
TV Credits
Καρτ Ποστάλ
Character: Γιώργος
Based on the books of famous author Victoria Hislop, the series transports us to Crete and London, through 12 riveting, independent stories, starring Andreas Κonstantinou. Joseph, an introverted, Greek-born English archaeologist, is planning to propose to his girlfriend and has arranged a trip to his birthplace, Crete. When she doesn't show up at the airport, he sets out on a solitary walkabout of the island. He starts sending postcards to his ex-girlfriend's house in London, with stories he he...
Σκοτεινή Θάλασσα
Character: Σάββας Γκορίτσας
A dark hero with memory gaps tries to prove his innocence. Alone against all. Faced with invisible mechanisms of power and a web of family secrets and personal passions....
Αυτή η Νύχτα Μένει
Character: Γιώργης
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....
Ο Σκαραβαίος
Character: Markos Alexiou
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Maestro
Character: Charalampos
A musician goes to lead a festival on a scenic island, where he begins an unexpected romance and finds himself entwined in other people's problems....
Το 10
Character: Nikolas Valvis
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Άγιος Έρωτας
Character: Kleanthis Varelas
A young priest and professor of theology upsets a small town upon his arrival. Apart from charm, however, it also hides secrets. No one knows the real reason it is there. And no one can predict, least of all himself, that the young daughter of the most powerful man in the area will prove to be his greatest test....
Movie Credits
Soul Food
Character:
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her....
13½
Character:
Aphrodite is thirteen and a half. Her friends call her Tin-Tin. Aphrodite is in love with Lou. Aphrodite wants to grow up......
J.A.C.E.
Character: Thomas Tepelenis
Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where vi...
At Home
Character: Markos
For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple and their daughter. She’s allowed to feel like part of the family. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job. Yet she shows no external sign of how these two traumatic events have affected her....
The Chaos She Left Behind
Character: Dimitris
Anna, in her late twenties, feels like her life is sliding away from her hands. A ticket to a music school in Paris might be the last chance to pursue her dream unless her manipulative, self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way....
Stratos
Character: Giorgos
At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his deb...
Crossing
Character: Antonis
A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties....
Fonissa
Character:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of ...
Brando with a Glass Eye
Character: Vasilis
A method actor commits a heist that goes wrong. He befriends the critically injured victim and tries to reconcile his guilt before his one shot audition in New York....
Not Tomorrow
Character:
Michalis has barely 24 hours to redefine his life and make up for his close ones. That same night he meets a girl. He only wishes that the morning never comes....
11.20 a.m.
Character: Dimitris
Olga, a domestic worker originally from Albania, finds herself in a house she works in downtown Athens, at the right time. Or at the wrong one?...
Entropy
Character:
It's Eleni's birthday. Friends and relatives are gathering together. Their relationships are going to be tested....
Suntan
Character: Takis
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess....
Spring Awakening
Character: Kostas
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city....
The Summer with Carmen
Character: Self
While having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut....
USSAK
Character: Zafos
In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime....
Mum, I'm Back
Character:
A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother....
37 Days
Character: Stelios
When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike....
Ballad for a Pierced Heart
Character: Iraklis
In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of....
II
Character: Guide
An old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again....
Iro /he.roː/
Character:
Today is Tuesday but Iro is not at school. Instead she's at home and she's ready to set off on a Journey with her mom and a Super Hero towards Lake Stymphalia....
Dad, Lenin and Freddy
Character:
During the 80's, in Athens, a nine-year old girl gradually loses touch with her workaholic communist father. She fantasizes that Vladimir Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American movie maniac Freddy Krueger joins forces with the Russian....
Green Sea
Character: Roula
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets a job as a cook and a place to stay at his shabby seaside tavern. In the kitchen, amidst the scents of spices and old forgotten recipes, Anna struggles to rebuild her past. Her simple but delicious food awakens memories for the regulars who in turn help her to reconnect with herself. The story takes an unexpected turn when Roula suddenly stumbles u...
45 Degrees
Character: Taxi Driver
Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It's getting dark and its still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding....
Cruiser
Character:
It’s just another night at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of Athens. Vlassis starts his night shift. Stephanos, a middle-aged truck driver, ends up at the gas station on the same night. The two of them confide their thoughts and dreams in one another, trapped in the Athens night....
Harisma
Character: Mihalis
Ismini is in her early 30s. She is cultivated, delicate, sensitive and... emotionally handicapped. She has developed a simplistic system of defense to protect her emotions: no one is to come near. It is exactly the moment when this collapses that unsophisticated, simple, impolite, aggressive and greatly passionate Haris appears in her life....
Save Me
Character:
Anna faces everyday problems in her Greek life. Her previous "man" left her debts, the new guy approved not to be the right one, in addition to these she loses her job and indeed needs somebody to rescue her!...
Freezer
Character: Michalis
Tassos, a man just over 50 years old, with a career in the marketing and commercial direction of large corporations, has been unemployed for three years now. Too old for a new beginning, but also too young to resign. His relationships with his close people are being tested, and his psychological state is marginal. His goal is one: to get out of the 'freezer'....
Guilt
Character: Clark
The 50-year Cypriot tragedy through the memories of an old man, a former gun dealer at death's door. A nightmare, through his operation, unmasks the reality of his own life and reveals his guilt feeling about his country....