Gia Carides

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Gia Carides (born June 7, 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a Greek-Australian actress.

An actress since the age of 12, she has won awards for her films Strictly Ballroom and Brilliant Lies from the Australian Film Institute. She is best known for her roles as Robin Spitz Swallows in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Cousin Nikki in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the television show, My Big Fat Greek Life. Gia also starred as the character Helena Angelopolous in the Southern Star Television show Police Rescue from 1992-1993.

Carides works in both America and Australia and is fluent in Greek.

Carides has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program.

[edit] Family

Gia's parents are an English mother and a Greek father. She is married to actor Anthony LaPaglia, whom she met whilst jointly starring in the 1994 (Ben Lewin) Australian movie "Lucky Break", and they are the parents of daughter Bridget (born in 2003). She is sister to Zoe Carides, also an actress, and sister-in-law to doctor turned actor Jonathan LaPaglia (from New York Undercover).