Demetriades at the premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman, The Musical at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in 2012

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

Personal life

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 (NIDA) with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.[2]

Television

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.

Theatre

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

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).[5]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
202? The Artful Dodger[6]
2023 The Claremont Murders[7] Nikki Santo 2 episodes
2022 The Younger Man Podcast series
2021 The Unusual Suspects (miniseries)[8] Martha Drewe 2 episodes
2021 Amazing Grace (Australian TV series) Chole 1 episode
2020 Reckoning Valerie 5 episodes
2020 The End Phillipa Lee 6 episodes
2019 The Commons Karima 5 episodes
2019 Babyteeth Jenny
2019 Dark Whispers Volume 1 Clara
2018-19 Squinters[9] Romi 12 episodes
2019 Mr Black Julia 1 episode
2018 Murder[10] Raquel Bennett TV Movie
2018 Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series) Pari Thompson 1 episode
2017 Remembering Agatha Agatha Short
2017 Pulse[11] Lou Tannis 8 episodes
2014-17 Janet King (TV series) Lina Badir 24 episodes
2017 Seven Types of Ambiguity (TV series) Angela 6 episodes
2016 Fragments of Friday
2015 The Principal Hafa Habeb 4 episodes
2015 Alex and Eve Eve
2014 Milk and Honey Liliana Short
2014 The Little House Grandmother Short
2013 Invisible Sarah Short
2013 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Beatrice Mason 1 episode
2013 Heidi Fires Everyone Traci Short
2013 Around the Block Katie
2013 Nerve Helen White
2013 Mr & Mrs Murder Lola 1 episode
2011 Crownies Lina Badir 22 episodes
2010 Little Leopold Carla Short
2009 All Saints (TV series) Felicity Summers 1 episode
2009 Blind Date Alexandra Short

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Cameras roll on the Artful Dodger for Disney+ | TV Tonight". December 2022.
  7. ↑ "The Claremont Murders: Trailer | TV Tonight". 13 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "Airdate: The Unusual Suspects | TV Tonight". 29 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "New cast join Squinters | TV Tonight".
  10. ↑ "Andrea Demetriades scores US pilot | TV Tonight". 2 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Cameras roll on ABC's Pulse | TV Tonight". 13 March 2017.

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