Nia Vardalos
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She's also known for starring in the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and the TV series My Big Fat Greek Life.
She starred in the films Connie and Carla, My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, and Helicopter Mom. She starred on TV as Domino in Team Knight Rider and as Annie Spiro in Graves. She hosted The Great American Baking Show along with her then husband, actor Ian Gómez.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 32.728 |
| Birthday | 1962-09-24 |
| Place of Birth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Also Known As | Antonia Eugenia Vardalos, Antonia Vardalos , |
2009
I Hate Valentine's Day
5.4/256
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateu...
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I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
My Life in Ruins
6.142/398
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them...
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My Life in Ruins
2002
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
6.498/2068
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultur...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
1999
Meet Prince Charming
4.571/7
Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while str...
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Meet Prince Charming
2004
Connie and Carla
5.887/84
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor...
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Connie and Carla
1997
Men Seeking Women
4.6/14
Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account, with the win...
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Men Seeking Women
2012
For a Good Time, Call...
5.8/287
College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's a...
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For a Good Time, Call...
2011
Larry Crowne
5.972/1270
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes p...
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Larry Crowne
2013
Dealin' with Idiots
5.5/36
Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colo...
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Dealin' with Idiots
2015
Helicopter Mom
5/29
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
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Helicopter Mom
2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
5.987/986
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
2006
Greece: Secrets of the Past
5.8/5
GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, is the stirring story of how a Greek archeolog...
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Greece: Secrets of the Past
2018
Charming
6.446/251
Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.
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Charming
2017
Car Dogs
5.7/10
Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that p...
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Car Dogs
2012
An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
6.9/46
A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
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An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
2019
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
6.904/463
Witness the legendary origin of renowned Justice League member Wonder Woman as she fights for good with her sword and magic lasso. Equally strong in b...
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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
2019
Same Time, Next Christmas
6.8/55
Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separat...
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Same Time, Next Christmas
2020
Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story
6.2/4
Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered...
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Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story
2020
Tiny Beautiful Things
0/0
In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be Strayed—who...
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Tiny Beautiful Things
2020
A Taste of Christmas
5.9/19
When Natalie (Anni Krueger) learns her cousin Francesca (Nia Vardalos) must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant, Natalie’s...
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A Taste of Christmas
2007
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos
0/0
NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which...
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The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos
33 Liberty Lane
0/0
A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.
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33 Liberty Lane
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
6.5/2
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.
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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2022
Ivy + Bean
6.7/10
Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an adve...
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Ivy + Bean
2023
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
6.074/141
Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old frien...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
2022
Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go
7/11
Cold, white mist. Clanking pipes. And an eerie voice that's coming from the drain. Is the school bathroom... haunted? Ivy and Bean are on the case!
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Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go
2022
The Curse of Bridge Hollow
6.543/440
A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to life...
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The Curse of Bridge Hollow
2017
Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni
0/0
The TV movie follows Star as she returns to her home dimension of Mewni where she discovers that magic is disappearing throughout the kingdom. Star mu...
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