Alexis Georgoulis

Alexis Georgoulis (born 6 October 1974) is a Greek actor and director who became particularly popular in Greece after his participation in the 2001 Greek Television Series "You Are My Mate" (Eisai To Tairi Mou). His first international feature film appearance was in My Life in Ruins, a romantic comedy, playing the love interest of Nia Vardalos, the lead female actor. Georgoulis was born in the town of Larissa. He is the third of four siblings, only one of whom is a girl, his younger sister Anna. His father owned a shop selling lottery tickets and his mother was a nursery school teacher. Today they are both retired. In 1993 he joined the National Technical University of Athens where he studied to become a civil engineer and in 1996 he...