Alex Dimitriades

Alex Dimitriades
Dimitriades with his AACTA Award, 2012
Born	(1973-12-28) 28 December 1973 (age 43) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present

Alex Dimitriades (born 29 December 1973) is an Australian film and television actor.

Dimitriades was born in Sydney, as Alexander Dimitriades. He is the son of first generation Greek immigrants, and is the youngest of three siblings. He has a brother, George, and a sister, Melinda. He grew up in Earlwood, a suburb of Sydney. His parents divorced when he was twelve. His mother worked as a legal secretary. She raised the children as a single mother.

Dimitriades first attracted national attention for his co-starring role in the 1993 Australian film The Heartbreak Kid, for which he received positive reviews and acclaim.

In 1998, he played the protagonist Ari in the controversial Ana Kokkinos film Head On, based on the book Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas. Dimitriades' performance in the role was critically acclaimed and earned him an AFI Award nomination. The film was controversial for its graphic sex scenes and LGBT subject matter, though it earned mostly positive reviews. It screened at dozens of festivals around the world, including the Director's Fortnight at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

His other film roles include the Australian comedies Let's Get Skase (2001) and La Spagnola (2001), the Greek film To Gamilio Party (English title Bang Bang Wedding, 2008), Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos (2010), and Summer Coda starring alongside Rachael Taylor. He has also had roles in the Hollywood films Ghost Ship (2002) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005).