Alexis Georgoulis Movies and Career Information

Alexis Georgoulis (born October 6, 1974) is a Greek actor and director who became particularly popular in Greece after his participation in the 2001 Greek Television Series "You Are My Mate" (Eisai To Tairi Mou). His first international feature film appearance was in My Life in Ruins, a romantic comedy, playing the love interest of Nia Vardalos, the lead female actor. Georgoulis was born in the town of Larissa. He is the third of four siblings, only one of whom is a girl, his younger sister Anna. His father owned a shop selling lottery tickets and his mother was a nursery school teacher. Today they are both retired. In 1993 he joined the National Technical University of Athens where he studied to become a civil engineer and in 1996 he started acting lessons at the Greek Drama Schools "Stage-Craft" and "Theater of Changes". In 1997 he joined and graduated with excellent grades the Drama School "Jasmine" which was founded by the famous Greek actor Vasilis Diamantopoulos. In 1996 started acting lessons in the Drama schools 'Stage-craft' and 'Theater of Changes'. Meanwhile, took extra lessons in phonetics. In 1997 - had been accepted - graduated with excellent - in the Drama School