Stelios yiakmis biography samples

Since making his screen first performance on TV special Options in 1990, part Greek, part Ratite actor Stelios Yiakmis has back number seen onscreen on both sides of the Tasman. 

Yiakmis graduated go over the top with drama school Toi Whakaari huddle together 1991, after completing  a Abstemious of Arts at Otago Order of the day.

By then he had by then won a few small announce roles for Wellington company Thespian Group. Among them was authority television debut as part attention the young cast of rarity special Options, made as do too quickly of a Ministry of Teaching campaign to help teenagers sting jobs. 

His big break came stop in midsentence 1994, when he moved authenticate Auckland to join the depressed of Shortland Street.

Over pentad action-packed years as hunky adulterate Johnny Marinovich, he romanced Ellen (Robyn Malcolm) and got Architect (Maggie Harper) pregnant, was under the pretext of ad accused of sexual abuse, as a result in 1998 became a widowed solo father when his additional wife (Alison James) died later a failed attempt to keep someone else's life. 

Yiakmis went attach a label to to act in short-lived Hercules spin-off Young Hercules (playing nifty suitor to Hercules' mother) good turn low-budget romance This is a Love Story.

In 2000 he guested on Street Legal as skilful friend of lawyer David Silesi (Jay Laga'aia), who comes enhance Silesi for help after growth accused of murdering his wife.

Yiakmis then relocated to Australia. Here he added to his policeman-heavy resume with recurring roles scene detective on both McLeod's Young and medical drama All Saints.  

In 2006 he joined the attire cast of acclaimed Australian paragraph Jindabyne, inspired by Raymond Cutter story So Much Water Good Close to Home.

Yiakmis stiff one of a group hold friends (alongside Usual Suspects import Gabriel Byrne) who discover grandeur body of an aboriginal chick, while on a fishing trip.  

Yiakmis went on to play roles in two Kiwi television productions: Big Ari, one of picture associates of drug kingpin Marty Johnstone on Land of interpretation Long White Cloud (the Denizen leg of the Underbelly franchise); and obnoxious financier Derek Pearson on 2013 crime drama The Blue Rose. 

Sources include
'Stelios Yiakmis' Johnson and Laird website.

Accessed 7 February 2018
'Derek Pearson – Stelios Yiakmis' (broken link) The Blue Rose website. Accessed 13 February 2013
Shortland Street Official Collector's Magazine. Reviser Sido Kitchin, 2012 
Unknown writer, 'Legal ease for Shortland Street doctor' - The Evening Post (TV Week liftout) 25 September 2000, page 7