Andrea Demetriades

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Andrea Demetriades
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Demetriades at the premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman, The Musical at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in 2012
Born1987 (age 37–38)
Perth, Western Australia
Education Western 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.

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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 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 .

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

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). [6]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 Babyteeth JennyFeature film
2019Dark Whispers Volume 1ClaraFilm
2018Murder [7] Raquel BennettTV movie
2017Remembering AgathaAgathaShort film
2014Milk and HoneyLilianaShort film
2014The Little HouseGrandmotherShort film
2013InvisibleSarahShort film
2013Heidi Fires EveryoneTraciShort film
2013 Around the Block KatieFeature film
2013 Nerve Helen WhiteFeature film
2010Little LeopoldCarlaShort film
2009Blind DateAlexandraShort film

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2025 NCIS: Sydney JenTV series 1 episode
2024-present Return to Paradise Daisy DixonTV series: 5 episodes
2023 The Artful Dodger Marianne CracksworthTV series, 1 episode [8]
Mother and Son DeeTV series, 4 episodes
The Claremont Murders Nikki SantosTV miniseries, 2 episodes [9]
2022The Younger ManPodcast series
2021 Clickbait AudreyTV miniseries, 1 episode
The Unusual Suspects Martha DreweTV miniseries, 2 episodes [10]
Amazing Grace ChloeTV miniseries, 1 episode
2020 Reckoning ValerieTV series, 5 episodes
The End Dr Phillipa LeeTV series, 6 episodes
2019 The Commons KarinaTV series, 5 episodes
2018-19 Squinters RomiTV series, 12 episodes [11]
2019 Mr Black JuliaTV series, 1 episode
2018 Doctor Doctor Pari ThompsonTV series, 1 episode
2017 Pulse Lou TannisTV series, 8 episodes [12]
2014-17 Janet King Lina BadirTV series, 24 episodes
2017 Seven Types of Ambiguity AngelaTV series, 6 episodes
2016Fragments of Friday
2015 The Principal Hafa HabebTV miniseries, 4 episodes
Alex and Eve EveTV series
2013 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Beatrice MasonTV series, 1 episode
Mr & Mrs Murder LolaTV series, 1 episode
2011 Crownies Lina BadirTV series, 22 episodes
2009 All Saints Felicity SummersTV series, 1 episode

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. ↑ 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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