Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
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]
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 .
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]
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]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Babyteeth | Jenny | Feature film |
| 2019 | Dark Whispers Volume 1 | Clara | Film |
| 2018 | Murder [6] | 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 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Artful Dodger [7] | Marianne Cracksworth | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2023 | Mother and Son | Dee | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 2023 | The Claremont Murders [8] | Nikki Santos | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2022 | The Younger Man | Podcast series | |
| 2021 | Clickbait | Audrey | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2021 | The Unusual Suspects [9] | Martha Drewe | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2021 | Amazing Grace | Chloe | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2020 | Reckoning | Valerie | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 2020 | The End | Dr Phillipa Lee | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 2019 | The Commons | Karina | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 2018-19 | Squinters [10] | Romi | TV series, 12 episodes |
| 2019 | Mr Black | Julia | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2018 | Doctor Doctor | Pari Thompson | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2017 | Pulse [11] | Lou Tannis | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 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 |
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