FILMOGRAPHY

2005] Stick It
2005] One Last Thing
2003] Exposed
2003] Gladius (VG)
2003] "My Big Fat Greek Life"
2002] Exposed
2002] My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2001] Thank Heaven
2000] Maze
2000] Extreme Adventures of Super Dave (V)
1999] A Secret Affair (TV)
1999] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1998] Letters from a Killer
1998] Primary Colors
1997] Firehouse (TV)
1997] Lifebreath
1997] The Devil's Child (TV)
1996] The Cottonwood
1996] Brilliant Lies
1995] The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (TV)
1995] Bad Company
1994] Lucky Break
1993] "Seven Deadly Sins" (mini)
1992] Greenkeeping
1992] The Resting Place (TV)
1992] Strictly Ballroom
1991] The Girl Who Came Late
1990] "Ultraman: Towards the Future" (mini)
1990] "Police Rescue"
1989] "Inside Running"
1986] Backlash
1985] Bliss
1985] The Coca-Cola Kid
1983] Midnite Spares
1983] Phar Lap
1977] The Love Letters from Teralba Road

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Gia Carides,
c/o Innovative Artists
1505 10th Street,
Santa Monica, CA 90401,
USA
--or--
Gia Carides,
c/o RGM Associates
PO Box 128,
Surry Hills, NSW, 2010,
Australia

Born 7 June 1964 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Married to Australian actor Anthony Lapaglia.

Working as an actress since age 12 in film and in theatre.

2 AFI award nominations for: Strictly Ballroom (1992) (Best Actress in a Supporting Role) and Brilliant Lies (1996) (Best Actress in a Leading Role).

Gia has 2 sisters Zoe (also an actor) and Danielle

Her daughter named Bridget was born on January 2003

Gia starred in a play in LA called Just Between Ourselves. By: Alan Ayckbourn & also starring Ken Danziger, Judy Geeson, Miriam Margolyes, Alfred Molina

Gia on her relationship with Anthony:
"We waited 8 years to tie the knot because we couldn't get our act together. Finally Anthony just had the shits and said: Are you going to marry me or what?"

Gia met Anthony at a party while he was in Sydney shooting his first Australian film, "The Custodian", in 1993.

Gia on her career in the US:
"I did this movie called 'Bad Company' not long after I came over here with Anthony, and it had the potential to be huge. It starred Lawrence Fishburne and Ellen Barkin, but it was probably too dark and too controversial at the time, so nobody went to see it. If that movie had been as big as we were expecting, maybe my career would have been in a different place."

Close friends with Naomi Watts, Gia remembers when the pair were off auditioning for films and TV pilots just over a year ago. "I remember Naomi telling me that she had just done this TV pilot for David Lynch which failed to get picked up. Then he re-cut it, turned it into a movie and Naomi's a star. Timing is everything in this game."

Gia first played Bryan Brown's daughter in the acclaimed "Love Letters From Teralba Road" back in 1977. 30 years later, she auditioned for the role of his wife in the recent "Dirty Deeds". "That would have been fun, but the role went to Toni [Collette] who's an amazing actress."

Gia on seeking out the role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding:
"I read the script and never laughed so much in my life; there was no way I wasn't going to be a part of that." Her agent got her the audition, which was to take place during the shooting of another film, "Thank Heaven". "They had given me the time off to audition for "Greek Wedding", but then their schedule changed and they changed their minds. I was so pissed off, that I called my agent and told them to do what they could to get me out of the film. There was NO WAY I wasn't going to audition for a comedy being produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson for God's sake!"

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