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Andrea Demetriades

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Andrea Demetriades
Demetriades at the premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman, The Musical at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in 2012
Born1987 (age 36–37)
Perth, Western Australia
EducationWestern Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Curtin University, National Institute of Dramatic Art
OccupationActress

Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.

Personal life

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Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus to Australia in 1969 and there met his future wife, Athena—who was from Perth, her father from Andros, Greece. Athena was an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.[1]

Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.[2]

Television

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Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies.[3] She reprised the role for the spin-off series Janet King in 2014 and 2016. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013. Demetriades appeared in the critically acclaimed 2015 Australian drama series The Principal as Hafa Habeb.[4] In 2017 she starred in both the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Pulse as Doctor Lou Tannis. In 2018 she also starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Squinters.

In 2024, Demetriades was named for ABC series Return to Paradise.[5]

Theatre

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Demetriades' theatrical work has included a role in Bell Shakespeare's Pericles—for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award—and an Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.[1]

Film

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Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block (both 2013). In the 2015 comedy-drama Alex & Eve, she starred as Eve, a Muslim Lebanese lawyer dating a Greek Australian schoolteacher (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano).[6]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2019 Babyteeth Jenny Feature film
2019 Dark Whispers Volume 1 Clara Film
2018 Murder[7] Raquel Bennett TV movie
2017 Remembering Agatha Agatha Short film
2014 Milk and Honey Liliana Short film
2014 The Little House Grandmother Short film
2013 Invisible Sarah Short film
2013 Heidi Fires Everyone Traci Short film
2013 Around the Block Katie Feature film
2013 Nerve Helen White Feature film
2010 Little Leopold Carla Short film
2009 Blind Date Alexandra Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref
2024 Return to Paradise Daisy Dixon TV series: 5 episodes
2023 The Artful Dodger Marianne Cracksworth TV series, 1 episode [8]
Mother and Son Dee TV series, 4 episodes
The Claremont Murders Nikki Santos TV miniseries, 2 episodes [9]
2022 The Younger Man Podcast series
2021 Clickbait Audrey TV miniseries, 1 episode
The Unusual Suspects Martha Drewe TV miniseries, 2 episodes [10]
Amazing Grace Chloe TV miniseries, 1 episode
2020 Reckoning Valerie TV series, 5 episodes
The End Dr Phillipa Lee TV series, 6 episodes
2019 The Commons Karina TV series, 5 episodes
2018-19 Squinters Romi TV series, 12 episodes [11]
2019 Mr Black Julia TV series, 1 episode
2018 Doctor Doctor Pari Thompson TV series, 1 episode
2017 Pulse Lou Tannis TV series, 8 episodes [12]
2014-17 Janet King Lina Badir TV series, 24 episodes
2017 Seven Types of Ambiguity Angela TV series, 6 episodes
2016 Fragments of Friday
2015 The Principal Hafa Habeb TV miniseries, 4 episodes
2015 Alex and Eve Eve TV series
2013 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Beatrice Mason TV series, 1 episode
2013 Mr & Mrs Murder Lola TV series, 1 episode
2011 Crownies Lina Badir TV series, 22 episodes
2009 All Saints Felicity Summers TV series, 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ a b Blake, Elissa (21 January 2012). "Interview: Andrea Demetriades". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media.
  2. ^ "Blind Date". Blind Date.
  3. ^ "Lina Badir - Characters - Crownies - ABC TV". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 12 December 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  4. ^ "The Principal". TV Tonight. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  5. ^ Knox, David (9 April 2024). "Return to Paradise filming in Illawarra | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  6. ^ Buckmaster, Luke (22 October 2015). "Alex & Eve review – cultural clashes and baklava in a Greek-Lebanese love story". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited.
  7. ^ "Andrea Demetriades scores US pilot | TV Tonight". 2 March 2018.
  8. ^ Knox, David (December 2022). "Cameras roll on the Artful Dodger for Disney+ | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au.
  9. ^ "The Claremont Murders: Trailer | TV Tonight". 13 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Airdate: The Unusual Suspects | TV Tonight". 29 April 2021.
  11. ^ Knox, David (21 November 2018). "New cast join Squinters | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au.
  12. ^ Knox, David (13 March 2017). "Cameras roll on ABC's Pulse | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au.

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