Nicholas Papademetriou

Bio

Nicholas Papademetriou was born in Sydney to Cypriot parents who immigrated in 1948. He has always wanted to act. He studied at one of Sydney’s best schools, Canterbury Boys High School and graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 1984, although he had his first professional theatre acting job in 1973. Since WAAPA he has worked extensively in film, television and theatre as an actor, director and producer. His theatre work includes work with all the major companies in Australia including Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company. He has also performed on stages in New York, Edinburgh, London and Cyprus. He was one of only 6 Australian actors chosen to work with legendary film director Mike Leigh on a new theatre project called Greek Tragedy which played in Sydney, London and Edinburgh. His one man show SNAG did sell out seasons in Sydney, New York and Edinburgh and was nominated in NYC and Edinburgh for Best Solo Performance. In film he is best known for his roles in Death in Brunswick, Past Midnight, Sparks (AFI winner), The Veiled and for his short film Swinger which has been selected for a number of film festivals around the world including place winner at Chicago Greek Film Festival and Open Fields Film Festival.

In television he has appeared in many programs including guest roles in many Australian programs, including most recently Significant Others, as well as the lead in the 8-part ABC series Stringer, a main cast role in the main acting ensemble of Grass Roots (season 1 & 2) and a principle role in Cyclone Tracy and Stark.

Most recently his theatre work includes the title role in Freud (Riverside Theatre), Vinnie in The Odd Couple (Ensemble Theatre), The Commander in The Angry Brigade (New Theatre), the lead role in The Caretaker (Riverside/Glen St), the Lord of the Underworld in Euydice (Old Fitz), Freud in Freud’s Last Session (Seymour Centre), George inWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfand for film he plays Severo in Dead Not Dying, a short film for which he won Best Supporting Actor at Melbourne City Independent Film Awards (Feb 2018) and earlier this year shot the queer horror feature film Closing Night (still to be released) for Writer/Director Tim Marshall.