Nikos Mavrakis

Nikos Mavrakis was born in Syros Greece on March 24th 1989 to George Mavrakis and Evangelia PrekaMavraki Nikos has two older sisters Anna and Julia Since Nikos was a child it was obvious that he is multitalented His first contact with acting was at the age of 9 as an active member of the acting group of his primary school One of the most hilarious moments of his life happened when he was a student at the 5th class of the primary school While he was performing in a theater play he forgot his script and he created his own new dialogues This situation socked and confused the other students actors though he made the audience laughing out loudly watching him acting so naturally out of the script By this fact everyone understood that he has a really bright future on acting Few years later he participated in a PanHellenic music competition as the primary singer of the chorus of Syros and he awarded with the first prize He graduated as the best student of his year from the University of Larissa Greece from the Department of Medical Laboratories The duration of these studies is 4 years but due to the fact that he was an excellent student he graduated in 3 years with the highest mark We should also notice that he was the youngest student who has been graduated the Department of Medical Laboratories Moreover he took a scholarship to study in the Department of Medicine Even if this is the dream for many students Nikos had different personal ambitions So he studied in a Drama School named The Theater Of Changes hiding from his family that he dropped out the Medicine School Only few months after his first steps as a student in the drama school he took part in his first TV serial named The generation of 592 EUR Shortly after completing this participation in the serial he continued to take part in various TV series and films His last work in Greece was in the daily serial Stolen Dreams on Mega Channel as Lefterakis During this running project he received an offer from the Turkish production company ADAM film to take part in the TV serial Two sides and One Ismail on ATV Channel in Turkey This was a really big opportunity for him to achieve his ambitions but on the other hand was such a big challenge He had the opportunity to discover the Turkish culture and the different ways of working at this wellpromising film industry Without doubt it was a challenging move with many risks to act in a language that he couldnt speak or read Although he took the decision to accept this offer and he relocated to Ayvalik in Turkey as here was the basic place of the shootings By the end of that serial he took part in a short film named Lack Noticing that he was the only actor in this movie he awarded with two prizes in two famous film festivals in Turkey Then he took part in an American film named Two faces of January with Viggo Mortensen Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac With multiple projects currently filming or in the production phases Nikos continues to move forward in his career and look ahead for new opportunities IMDb Mini Biography By Nikos Mavrakis