Nia Vardalos
Also Known As: Antonia Eugenia Vardalos, Antonia Vardalos , Αντωνία Ευγενία Βαρδάλου, Νία Βαρντάλος, نیا واردالوس
Biography: Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She's also known for starring in the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and the TV series My Big Fat Greek Life. She starred in the films Connie and Carla, My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, and Helicopter Mom. She starred on TV as Domino in Team Knight Rider and as Annie Spiro in Graves. She hosted The Great American Baking Show along with her then husband, actor Ian Gómez.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birthday: September 24, 1962
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Gender: Female
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I Hate Valentine's Day
Overview: A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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My Life in Ruins
Overview: A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Overview: A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Meet Prince Charming
Overview: Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so he joins one and seems to have found a great match, maybe even a soul-mate. He doesn't know it's actually his apartment block neighbor, 29-year old magazine editor Samantha Feld -who only rolled into the thing because her friend and co-worker Jen thinks she needs a man and threw a party at Samantha's place- with whom he clashed from the start in daily life as they consider each-other noisy and inconsiderate. Yet, when they meet after e-mail bliss together and nothing but failed dates with others...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Connie and Carla
Overview: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-16
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For a Good Time, Call...
Overview: College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's apartment in New York City, the girls bicker with each other until one fateful night, when Katie's noisy bedroom activities make Lauren barge in and discover a dirty little secret. This revelation brings them closer together, and Lauren (the brains) and Katie (the talent) concoct a wildly successful business venture. As profits swell, the girls reevaluate their hopes and dreams and realize that just because someone pees in your hair in college doesn't mean she won't be your best friend 10 years later.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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Larry Crowne
Overview: When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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Dealin' with Idiots
Overview: Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-12
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Helicopter Mom
Overview: Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Overview: Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-07
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Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go
Overview: Cold, white mist. Clanking pipes. And an eerie voice that's coming from the drain. Is the school bathroom... haunted? Ivy and Bean are on the case!
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Overview: A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to life.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Horror Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Overview: The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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Men Seeking Women
Overview: Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account, with the winner being the one who can not only get a girlfriend, but also live with her for three months. Nick decides to hoodwink his two friends by faking a relationship with an old girlfriend from college, while Al proceeds to embark on a series of the worst dates imaginable, and Les finds himself getting deeply involved with an alluring but mysterious woman who may or may not be married to a mobster. Hilarious antics lead to an unexpected outcome guaranteed to surprise.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-08
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Greece: Secrets of the Past
Overview: GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, is the stirring story of how a Greek archeologist of the 21st century is uncovering the secret history of his ancient ancestors who forged a society that continues to astound the world today with its ideas, inventions and achievements. Set against the breathtaking, azure vistas of the Greek Isles, the film merges a contemporary archeological “detective story” with some of the most advanced and painstaking digital re-creations ever undertaken for an IMAX® theatre film, with scenes that restore such centuries-old spectacles as the original Parthenon and the volcanic eruption that buried Santorini in 1646 BC.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-16
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Charming
Overview: Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-26
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Car Dogs
Overview: Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that promises to do "Whatever It Takes" to put you in a new car. But on a scorching hot Saturday in the middle of the Phoenix summer, Mark has a chance to get his own dealership - and out from under the thumb of his father. Mark has to sell thirty-five cars by the end of the day. The question: Will Mark do whatever it takes - including betraying his sales team and himself - to get what he wants?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
Overview: A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
Overview: Witness the legendary origin of renowned Justice League member Wonder Woman as she fights for good with her sword and magic lasso. Equally strong in body, heart and will, she makes it her mission to help a troubled young girl enlisted by a deadly organization known as Villainy, Inc., whose criminal members have their sights set on invading Themyscira, Wonder Woman’s paradise home. The battle will be epic, because if there's one thing an Amazon knows, it’s war!
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Same Time, Next Christmas
Overview: Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaiian resort years later, and the old chemistry between them flares up anew—but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story
Overview: Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered dead of an apparent suicide, the police suspect some foul play, as David's death mimics that of Stacey's first husband, Michael Wallace, who died in 2000.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-01
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Overview: In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be Strayed—who thousands of people have turned to for words of wisdom, honesty and hope. At first unsure of herself, Sugar finds a way to weave her own life experiences together with the deep yearning and real problems of her readers, creating a beloved column about the monstrous beauty, endless dark and glimmering light at the heart of being human.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-02
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A Taste of Christmas
Overview: When Natalie learns her cousin Francesca must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant, Natalie’s heart goes out to all of the guests who were planning on attending. Since no one should be alone on Christmas, Natalie decides to make the opening happen any way she can. However, the attractive but pessimistic Chef Stefano believes it’s impossible – there are only three days until Christmas! But Natalie insists that problems are just opportunities in disguise and soon she convinces Stefano that they can do it. At first, these opposites do not attract, but feelings begin to change when they find themselves working side-by-side. With Stefano’s help Natalie learns that cooking, like Christmas, isn’t about perfection…it’s about sharing it with the ones you love.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos
Overview: NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was based on her one-woman play. The film became the highest-grossing independent feature and turned her in to an overnight success, spawning a follow-up sitcom and a cemented spot among Hollywood s elite writers. Listen as she talks candidly about her favorite laugh, tapping into her inner guy, and why her take on the hardest part of screenwriting just might make you blush.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-15
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33 Liberty Lane
Overview: A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Overview: Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-13
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Ivy + Bean
Overview: Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an adventure reveals that opposites can become the best of friends.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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