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Alex Dimitriades
Born: 28th Dec 1973 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dept: Acting
Alex Dimitriades is an Australian television, film and stage actor of Greek descent. He is best known for his roles as Nick Polides in the 1993 romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid and as Nick Poulos in the 1994 television teen drama spin-off Heartbreak High. He earned critical acclaim for his role as Ari in Head On (1998). He won the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Actor for the role and was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actor. In 2012, he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor for his role in The Slap. He also works in Australia as a DJ.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 43
Film: 23 (53%)
Television: 20 (47%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War & Politics, Action, Adventure, Action & Adventure, Documentary
Filmography
Jan 2022 (first aired)
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up wit ... view
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Kostas Panigiris (4 ep.)
Mar 2021 (first aired)
The series centres on midwife Grace and her passionate colleagues at an unconventional birth centre attached to a major city hospital. A fierce advoca ... view
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Kirk Gilbert (8 ep.)
Feb 2020 (first aired)
Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it cou ... view
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Dr. Nikos Naoumidis (6 ep.)
Oct 2019 (first aired)
A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral. ... view
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Nick Pearce (6 ep.)
2019
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her. ... view
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Theo
Dec 2018 (first aired)
Ex-con Cal McTeer's return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens. ... view
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Paul Murdoch (7 ep.)
Sep 2018 (first aired)
The disappearance of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young couple ... view
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Detective Peter Alexiades (4 ep.)
2018
When a Ukrainian actress arrives in Melbourne for a festival performance, her off stage antics reveal the true nature of her visit. ... view
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Ari
2017
For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends ... view
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Robert
Oct 2017 (first aired)
John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at a one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting the road, he collides with a k ... view
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Doc Tydon (2 ep.)
Apr 2017 (first aired)
The shifting perspective of six characters following a complicated chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into c ... view
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Joe Marin (6 ep.)
Jun 2016 (first aired)
Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret ... view
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Charles Dancer (6 ep.)
Feb 2016 (first aired)
Two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a cha ... view
Character:
Anton Maric (2 ep.)
Oct 2015 (first aired)
When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings hi ... view
Character:
Matt Bashir (4 ep.)
2015
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down. ... view
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Damien
2014
How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household name, a legend of Kings Cross, a daytime TV star, a ... view
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Angelo
2014
Leo is dead and Saverio hasn't spoken to him for ten years. When Saverio meets Anna, his dead brother's goddaughter, she leads him to what he most wan ... view
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Saverio
2014
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop. ... view
Character:
Terry
Oct 2011 (first aired)
At an Australian backyard BBQ, amongst alcohol, friendship and a children's cricket game, a man slaps a child who is not his son. The party comes to a ... view
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Harry (8 ep.)
2010
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, ... view
Character:
Michael
2010
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis. His one true love—a '69 Valiant Pacer—and all his assets have just been seized ... view
Character:
Mihali
Aug 2009 (first aired)
Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program ... view
Character:
Guy Hewitt (1 ep.)
2008
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is ... view
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Tony
Feb 2008 (first aired)
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events. ... view
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Mr. T (6 ep.)
Original title: Το Γαμήλιο Πάρτυ
2008
In this fast-paced Greek wedding comedy, young lovers Ilias and Marina arrive on the island of Crete for their wedding, along with their large, boiste ... view
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Ilias
2006
This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, s ... view
Character:
Jack
2006
The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husba ... view
Character:
Robert Nazaretian
2005
Deuce Bigalow goes to Amsterdam after a little accident including two irritating kids and a bunch of aggressive dolphins. There he meets up with his o ... view
Character:
Enzo Giarraputo
2004
Thirty year old Gina Katz, fired from a lowly telemarketing job, changes her whole life overnight. Gina's transformation means embarking upon a wild a ... view
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Hamish Fitz-Herbert
2003
Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive. ... view
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Conrad
2002
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towi ... view
Character:
Santos
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the profess ... view
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Det. Sr. Const. Eddie Mercia (22 ep.)
2001
Christopher Skase. He ruled Australia and stole a fortune, fleeing to the coast of Spain. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. Until Peter D ... view
Character:
Danny D'Amato Jr.
2001
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter L ... view
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Stefano
2000
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Ke ... view
Character:
Steve
Mar 1999 (first aired)
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield. ... view
Character:
Lieutenant Velorek (1 ep.)
1998
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having e ... view
Character:
Ari
Nov 1997 (first aired)
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999.
The show consisted of a one hour format that fo ... view
Character:
Charlie Coustos (20 ep.)
1995
Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, how ... view
Character:
Warren Lanfranchi
Sep 1995 (first aired)
Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former Detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and ... view
Character:
Warren Lanfranchi (2 ep.)
Feb 1994 (first aired)
The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney. ... view
Character:
Nick Poulos (38 ep.)
Feb 1994 (first aired)
Coverage of the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1993
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course ... view
Character:
Nick Polides