Nia Vardalos

Movie Actress

Nia Vardalos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on September 24th, 1962 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 61, Nia Vardalos biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
September 24, 1962
Nationality
Canada
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Age
61 years old
Zodiac Sign
Libra
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Actor, Director, Film Actor, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Toronto Metropolitan University (BFA)
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Spouse(s)
Ian Gomez, ​ ​(m. 1993; div. 2018)​
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Nia Vardalos Career

An alumna of the Chicago-based Second City comedy repertory company, Vardalos wrote and performed in over ten revues of sketch comedy and won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson award for Best Actress. Vardalos had many small roles in television shows such as The Drew Carey Show and Two Guys and a Girl; in addition, she provided voices for the 1996 radio adaptation of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi which Brian Daley had written for National Public Radio.

She gained fame with her movie about a woman's struggle to find love in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The film was a critical and commercial success. The film earned Vardalos an Academy Award Nomination for Best Writing, a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and a Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination.

The sleeper hit quickly became one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time, and the number one romantic comedy of all time. Vardalos hosted Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2002.

The next film she starred in, which she also wrote, and in which she also sang and danced, was Connie and Carla, released in 2004; this became a cult-hit musical, and is about two women pretending to be drag queens. (The plot has been compared to that of Some Like It Hot, the 1959 American romantic comedy film which Billy Wilder directed, produced, and co-wrote, which had starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, in that as with the two male leads of Some Like It Hot, the female leads of Connie And Carla did what they did to hide from criminals whose crimes they had witnessed and who could still kill both of them had they been found.)

Vardalos made her directorial debut in 2009 with the independent feature I Hate Valentine's Day. The film, about a florist finding romance, was made for less than $400,000 and on only a limited release grossed $1,985,260 at the international box-office. This was followed by My Life in Ruins, about a misguided tour-guide traveling around Greece and featuring Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss. The film was the first American production given permission to film at the Acropolis; Vardalos personally sought the approval from the Greek government and credits her years of Greek School for helping her be fluent in the language.

In 2011, Vardalos collaborated with Tom Hanks to write the romantic comedy film Larry Crowne for the screen. The film was a commercial success, grossing $59.8 million; Vardalos also voiced the character Map Genie in the film.

In 2016, Vardalos adapted Cheryl Strayed's beloved book, Tiny Beautiful Things, and starred in the sold out run of the play at The Public Theater in New York, directed by Thomas Kail. The play received outstanding reviews and is the New York Times Critic's Pick. Vardalos reprised her role in 2017 in another sold-out run at The Public, and again at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Published by Samuel French, the play was quickly licensed by many theaters and is on the list of Top Ten Most Produced Plays.

Vardalos joined many celebrities helping to produce The 1 Second Film art project; she herself was featured in The Dialogue, an interview series. In this 90 minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca, Vardalos talked about how her experiences in The Second City comedy troupe helped her as an actress and a screenwriter, and how the unofficial "tell-the-Greek" word-of-mouth program had a hand in catapulting her movie to such great heights. She sang The Beatles song "Golden Slumbers" on the 2006 charity album Unexpected Dreams – Songs from the Stars.

Vardalos starred in and wrote My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which was released in March 2016. It earned over $60 million domestically from an $18 million budget and much more internationally and in home box office sales.

From 2015 to 2017, Vardalos and Gomez co-presented the first two seasons of The Great American Baking Show, formerly known as The Great Holiday Baking Show, for ABC-TV.

In 2018, Vardalos guest-starred in an episode of The CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

In 2019, Vardalos played Faye Anderson in the ABC television holiday film Same Time, Next Christmas. In 2020, in what was, for her, a rare turn to both serious, non-comedy acting and impostures of real people, she impersonated convicted poisoner Stacey Castor in the made-for-television movie Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story, which Lifetime Television transmitted.

In September 2022, Vardalos, along with comedian Rob Riggle, created, wrote, and starred in the 10 episode comedy podcast Motivated! for Audible Original and Broadway Video.

She is scheduled to reprise her role as Toula Portakalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 in which she will serve as director and screenwriter.

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Nia Vardalos, 61, of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame goes PUBLIC with 'secret' boyfriend of one year Spiros Katsagans as they hold hands on the red carpet

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2023
Nia Vardalos, the star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has announced her current boyfriend. On Thursday, the two were seen holding hands on the red carpet of The Beverly Hills Hotel's Women In Entertainment Gala. Spiros Katsagans, a resident of Athens, Greece, has been confirmed by DailyMail.com. When she finished filming My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, she and her husband met a year ago at an outdoor restaurant. This is five years after she divorced from her husband of more than 20 years, actor Ian Gomez, with whom she has a teen daughter.

In official poster for My Big Fat Greek Wedding sequel, Nia Vardalos and John Corbett

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 14, 2023
The official movie poster for the highly awaited third installment of the My Big Fat Greek Wedding series has been released. The Portokalos family returns to Greece for a reunion that is described as a "heartwarming and amusing ride full of love, twists and turns" during this go round.' Toula Portokal (Nia Vardalos) and her husband Ian Miller (John Corbett) posing side-by-side as they look to reconnect with her family roots, which was her father Gus Portokalos's last wish before his death.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 trailer: Nia Vardalos brings her loved ones back to their homeland

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
On Thursday morning, Focus Pictures' official YouTube channel shared a trailer for the forthcoming romantic comedy feature My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3's forthcoming romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Several members of the Portokalos family were on their way to Greece for a family reunion, as seen in the first glimpse of the third film in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding collection. Michael Constantine, who played Gus Portakalos in the first two films until he died in 2021, was unfortunately not included in the film's cast.
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