Alexis Georgoulis was born in the Greek town Larissa on October 6, 1974. He attended the conservatory of Larissa from 1988 to 1993 where he took guitar lessons and in 1993, he started at the National Technical University of Athens to become a Civil Engineer. He started taking acting lessons in 1996 at the drama schools Stage-craft and Theater of Changes, and at the same time taking extra lessons in phonetics. He graduated from the drama school Jasmine in 1997. Jasmine was established by the Greek actor Vasilis Diamantopoulos. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1096845/bio

While attending school, he joined a dance group called Heresis and in 1997, performed in Carmen 33. He performed with the group again in 1998 in The Return. He also took a part in 1997 with the TV series Alice in Wonderland, and another part in Death Agony in 1998. He also completed a short film No one’s Rose the same year. In 2001, he co-starred in the sitcom You are my mate in which he was the lead actor. His directing debut came in 2003 for Progressive Stage at the National Theater with the play Good Luck. The play was written by Greek writer Bill Katsikonouris. 2004 found him at the Kivotos Theatre directing the black comedy play The Shape of Things that was written by Neil Labute.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1096845/bio

While working on a performance in a Greek theatre, he was approached by an Greek casting director and asked if he would like to audition for a part in an American movie, My Life in Ruins. My Life in Ruins is a romantic comedy set amongst the ruins in Greece.http://www.freebase.com/view/en/my_life_in_ruins/-/film/film/starring Although the movie was shot in the historic ruins near Athens, it was to be in the English so Alexis Georgoulis had to quickly learn to speak English. He won the male lead role and starred in the movie with Nia Vardalos. In May 2009, they went to New York to promote the movie at the closing of the Tribeca Film Festival. The movie also starred Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, Rachel Dratch, Alistair McGowan, Ian Ogilvy, Maria Botto, Caroline Goodall, Jareb Dauplaise, Sheila Bernette, and Maria Adanez. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865559/fullcredits

THEATRE:

2007, Play, The Four Poster, (Mike Norton), Athens Theatre, directed by Vasilis Mirianthopoulos.

2006, Play, The Four Poster, (Mike Norton), Egnatia Theatre Thessalonica, directed by Kostas Tsianos.

2005, Play, The Lady with the Camellias, (Armand Duvall), Anesis Theatre, directed by Antonis Kalogridis.

2004, Play, Look Back in Anger, (Jimmy Porter), Kivotos Theatrer, directed by Giannis Iordanidis.

[[2003[[, Play, To Spiti Fevgi-Run Away Home, (Christopher), Dimitris Horn Theatre, directed by Stamatis Fasoulis.

2002, Stand Up Comedy, Ta Leme- See You, (Tom-George-Nick-Peter), Ivy Theatre Athens, written and directed by the great Stand up Comedian Lakis Lazopoulos.

TV:

2007, Sitcom, Enas Minas Kai Kati- A Little Bit More Than A Month, (Andreas Maragos), Mega Channel, directed by Vasilis Thomopoulos.

2005, Drama, Kinoumeni Ammos-Moving Sand, (Giorgos Petropoulos), Alpha Channel, directed by Mirna Tsapa, he signed jointly the script.

2004, Sitcom, Erastis Ditikon Proastion - The West Suburbs Lover, (Spyros Foundas), Mega Channel, directed by Dimitris Arvanidis.

2003, Drama, Oniro Itan-It Was a Dream, NET Channel, (Mihalis Koroneos), directed by Lampis Zaroutiadis.

2001, Sitcom, Isai to teri mou - You Are My Mate, (Sotiris Bezentakos), Mega Channel, directed by Antonis Agelopoulos.

1998, Drama, Ageliasma- Death Agony, ET Channel, directed by Dimitris Panagiotatos.

1997, Drama, Aliki sti xora ton thavmaton - Alice in Wonderland, ET Channel, directed by Stella Belesi.

FILMS:

2007, Film, My Life in Ruins, (Poupi Êakas), directed by Donald Petrie.

2005, Film, Lioubi, Liubi, (Dimitris Georgiou), directed by, Lagia Giourgou. Award for the Best Film in the International Cinema Festival in Huston.

2003, Film, Oxigono - Oxygen (Black Mail Boy), (Stelios Nousias), directed by Michael Reppas, Thanasis Papathanasiou. Award for Best Film in 2003, from the International Federation of the Critics of Cinema.

2002, Film, Kourastika Na Skotono Tous Agapitikous Sou- I'm Tired of Killing. Your Lovers, (Vasilis Iordanidis-Jordan) directed by, Nikos Panagiotopoulos.

2001, Film, Fouska - The Bubble, (Makis Parlavazas) directed by, Nikos Perakis.

2001, Film, Avrio Tha Einai Arga- Too Late Tomorrow, (Antonis Mainas), directed by Lagia Giourgou. Took part in several cinema festivals around the world.

2000, Short Film, Tou Kanenos to Rodo- No one's Roze, (Alexis Rozis), directed by Giannis Galanoulis.

As a Director:

In 2003 he directed for the Progressive Stage of the National Theatre the play Good Luck' written by the rewarded Greek writer Bill Katsikonouris. Next year at Kivotos Theatre (2004), he directed the black comedy The Shape of Things, written by Neil Labute. He is also the director of the short film From the other side (2001) http://www.alexisgeorgoulis.com/english%20pages/biography_english_more1.html