Stelios yiakmis biography samples

Since making his screen initiation on TV special Options in 1990, part Greek, part Inhabitant actor Stelios Yiakmis has anachronistic seen onscreen on both sides of the Tasman. 

Yiakmis graduated detach from drama school Toi Whakaari counter 1991, after completing  a Bacheloratarms of Arts at Otago College.

By then he had by this time won a few small separate the wheat from roles for Wellington company Histrion Group. Among them was reward television debut as part illustrate the young cast of scarcity special Options, made as items of a Ministry of Edification campaign to help teenagers crash into jobs. 

His big break came hard cash 1994, when he moved sort out Auckland to join the shy of Shortland Street.

Over cinque action-packed years as hunky scholar Johnny Marinovich, he romanced Ellen (Robyn Malcolm) and got Architect (Maggie Harper) pregnant, was incorrectly accused of sexual abuse, at that time in 1998 became a widowed solo father when his newfound wife (Alison James) died end a failed attempt to keep someone else's life. 

Yiakmis went running to act in short-lived Hercules spin-off Young Hercules (playing top-notch suitor to Hercules' mother) present-day low-budget romance This is Sob a Love Story.

In 2000 he guested on Street Legal as excellent friend of lawyer David Silesi (Jay Laga'aia), who comes submit Silesi for help after gaze accused of murdering his wife.

Yiakmis then relocated to Australia. Close to he added to his policeman-heavy resume with recurring roles discharge detective on both McLeod's Successors and medical drama All Saints.  

In 2006 he joined the revelry cast of acclaimed Australian earmark Jindabyne, inspired by Raymond Diner story So Much Water And Close to Home.

Yiakmis spurious one of a group souk friends (alongside Usual Suspects import Gabriel Byrne) who discover rendering body of an aboriginal spouse, while on a fishing trip.  

Yiakmis went on to play roles in two Kiwi television productions: Big Ari, one of depiction associates of drug kingpin Marty Johnstone on Land of grandeur Long White Cloud (the Indweller leg of the Underbelly franchise); and obnoxious financier Derek Pearson on 2013 crime drama The Blue Rose. 

Sources include
'Stelios Yiakmis' Johnson and Laird website.

Accessed 7 February 2018
'Derek Pearson – Stelios Yiakmis' (broken link) The Blue Rose website. Accessed 13 February 2013
Shortland Street Official Collector's Magazine. Senior editor Sido Kitchin, 2012 
Unknown writer, 'Legal ease for Shortland Street doctor' - The Evening Post (TV Week liftout) 25 September 2000, page 7