Yannis Stankoglou

Yannis Stankoglou
Greek actor Giannis Stankoglou, in June 2021.
Born	January 10 1974 (1974-01-10) (age 50) Athens, Greece
Occupation(s)	Film and theatre actor

Yannis (or Yiannis) Stankoglou (Greek: Γιάννης Στάνκογλου; born 10 January 1974) is a Greek actor.

Biography

Yannis Stankoglou was born in Athens, and worked as a builder and construction worker in his teens, before discovering theatre. He attended the Athens Drama School and went on to study and work in New York, later returning to Greece to become a major figure in the theatre industry. Stankoglou works in Greece, Europe and the United States. He has toured internationally with productions of Greek tragedy and modern works, representing Greek theatre in China, Latin America, and Russia.

He is second cousin with the mother of Singer Stefania Liberakakis.

Theatre

• 2011: The Third Wedding (adaptation of the novel by Costas Taktsis)
• 2012: Rainman (theatre version of the film)
• 2012: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
• 2013: Theseus and Ariadne (adaptation by Stratis Paschalis)
• 2013: I am somebody else (based on the life of Arthur Rimbaud)
• 2015: Jason and the Golden Fleece (adaptation by Stratis Paschalis)
• 2016: Victor/Victoria
• 2018: Junkermann (adaptation of the novel by Karagatsis)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Bar		Film debut
2003	Black Amour	Panagiotis	Short film
2004	Hardcore	Zoes
	Alithini Zoi	Giorgos
2005	To oneiro tou skylou
	Omiros	Grigoris
	Ki an fygo... tha xanartho	Markos
2006	2004, One Year Later	man	Short film
	Kinisi omali	Nikos	Short film
	Pandora	Manos
2007	To spiti me tis elies		Short film
2008	Flat		Short film
	When fish fly		Short film
	Ta poupoula tou Donald		Short film
	Without	promotion supervisor
2009	Vasilis Karagiorgos		Short film
	Euphoria		Short film
2010	Oedipus	son / detective	Short film
	Stiff - a little love story		Short film
2011	Christmas Tango	Lt. Stefanos Karamanidis
	Mavri Thyella		Short film
2012	Desma aimatos
	Apostaseis		Short film
2013	Wild Duck	Manos
	The Case of Mary Ford	Giorgos	Short film
	To deipno	man	Short film
	Illusion
2014	Me horis gynaikes
	Xenia	Lefteris
	Lomasankarit	Andriana's father
	Forget me not	Alex
2015	Semeli	Aris	Short film
	The Republic	Efthymiadis
	Invisible	Aris
	Blind Sun	Le policier
	Ouzeri Tsitsanis	Jaco Beza
	I kori tou Rembrandt
2016	Amerika square	Billy
2017	Aria		Short film
	I zoi meta	Michalis
	Mandelion	Ryrros	Short film
2018	Chinatown: The Three Shelters
	O thanatopoinitis		Short film
	The Waiter	The Blond
2019	Fantasia	Nikos Kokkinos
2021	Man of God	Spiros
2022	The Last Journey	captain	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
2003	Kleise ta matia	Argyris	1 episode
2004	10i entoli	Socrates	Episode: "Aggelika prosopa"
		waiter	Episode: "Se vathia nera"
		Vaggelis	Episode: "Kleistes portes"
2005	10i entoli	Nikos	Episode: "Enoho mystiko"
		Argyris	Episode: "Mesotoihia"
		Petros	Episode: "Oikogeneiaki giorti"
2006	10i entoli	Marios	Episode: "Ofthalmon anti ofthalmou"
		Ages	Episode: "Kataramenoi"
		Fotis	Episode: "Emmoni"
2007	Pano apo to nomo	Mihalis Lazarou	Lead role (9 episodes)
	Oi istories tou astynomou Beka	Yannis Aggelides	Episode: "O dolofonos forouse smokin"
	10i entoli	thif #1	Episode: "Enas isihos anthropos"
		Kostas Palmas	Episode: "The end"
	Istories apo tin apenanti ohthi		Episode: "Idioktitis"
2007-2008	One month or something	Thodoros	Lead role, 25 episodes
2008	True Loves	Haris	Episode: "Invisible people"
	True Loves	Thanasis	Episode: "Small things"
2008-2009	Who's catching us!	Konstantinos	Lead role, 16 episodes
2010	Star War	Dimitris Samiotakis	Episode: "Ego and me"
	The Third Law	Nikos	Episode: "The smell of the beast"
2010-2011	The Island	Andreas Vandoulakis	Lead role, 19 episodes
2012	Clinical Case	Nikitas Freris	4 episodes
2015	10th commandment	man in the elevator	Episode: "Beast"
	10th commandment	Haris	Episode: "Three"
	10th commandment	dealer	Episode: "Face"
2019-2020	Wild Bees	Thomas Kypraios	Lead role, Season 1 - 125 episodes, Recurring role, Season 2 - 22 episodes
2021	Almost Adults	Apostolis Karkantzos	Lead role, 12 episodes
2022	Oath	Angelos Raptis	Lead role, Season 1 - 36 episodes
	Saint Paisios: From Farasa to Heaven	shepherd Thodoros	1 episode
	One August Night	Andreas Vandoulakis	Lead role, 14 episodes
2022-2023	Edge of Night	Christos Anagnostou	Lead role, 110 episodes
2023	The Numbers	Himself	Episode: "The circle"
2023-2024	The shipwreck	Ippokratis Panopoulos	Lead role, 116 episodes
2024-2025	Archelaou 5th street	Matthew vasileiou	Lead role