Andrea Demetriades
Andrea Demetriades is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies. She will also reprised the role for the spin-off series Janet King. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013.
Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block. Her theatre roles include Bell Shakespeare's Pericles, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award and she toured Australia in Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.[1]
Personal life
Demetriades was born in Perth in 1983, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus in 1969 and met her mother, Athena. Athena was born in Perth but her father was from Andros, Greece. Athena is an artist. Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments. [2]
Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.[3]