Nia Vardalos

Nia Vardalos

出生 : 1962-09-24, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

略歴

Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She's also known for starring in the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and the TV series My Big Fat Greek Life. She starred in the films Connie and Carla, My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, and Helicopter Mom. She starred on TV as Domino in Team Knight Rider and as Annie Spiro in Graves. She hosted The Great American Baking Show along with her then husband, actor Ian Gómez.

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参加作品

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Writer
We find the couple, now married with a daughter, packing their bags and traveling back to Greece to spend time with the lively Portokalos clan.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos
We find the couple, now married with a daughter, packing their bags and traveling back to Greece to spend time with the lively Portokalos clan.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Director
We find the couple, now married with a daughter, packing their bags and traveling back to Greece to spend time with the lively Portokalos clan.
ハロウィンの呪文 ~ブリッジホローは大騒ぎ!?~
Madam Hawthorne
悪人の霊によって命を吹き込まれ、町中のハロウィンの飾りが大暴れ。町を危機から救うため、ハロウィンが大嫌いな父親が、しぶしぶティーンの娘と力を合わせて立ち上がる。
アイビー+ビーンのオバケたいじ
Cold, white mist. Clanking pipes. And an eerie voice that's coming from the drain. Is the school bathroom... haunted? Ivy and Bean are on the case!
アイビー+ビーン
Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an adventure reveals that opposites can become the best of friends.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Adaptation
In this unforgettable play, wit and hard-won wisdom are dished out in the advice column exchanges between a writer who goes by the name of “Sugar” and her readers. Tiny Beautiful Things is about reaching when you’re stuck, recovering when you’re broken, and finding the courage to ask the questions that are hardest to answer.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Writer
In this unforgettable play, wit and hard-won wisdom are dished out in the advice column exchanges between a writer who goes by the name of “Sugar” and her readers. Tiny Beautiful Things is about reaching when you’re stuck, recovering when you’re broken, and finding the courage to ask the questions that are hardest to answer.
A Taste of Christmas
Olivia
When Natalie (Anni Krueger) learns her cousin Francesca (Nia Vardalos) must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant, Natalie’s heart goes out to all of the guests who were planning on attending. Since no one should be alone on Christmas, Natalie decides to make the opening happen any way she can. However, the attractive but pessimistic Chef Stefano (Gilles Marini) believes it’s impossible – there are only three days until Christmas! But Natalie insists that problems are just opportunities in disguise and soon she convinces Stefano that they can do it. At first, these opposites do not attract, but feelings begin to change when they find themselves working side-by-side. With Stefano’s help Natalie learns that cooking, like Christmas, isn’t about perfection…it’s about sharing it with the ones you love.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Sugar
In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be Strayed—who thousands of people have turned to for words of wisdom, honesty and hope. At first unsure of herself, Sugar finds a way to weave her own life experiences together with the deep yearning and real problems of her readers, creating a beloved column about the monstrous beauty, endless dark and glimmering light at the heart of being human.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Writer
In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be Strayed—who thousands of people have turned to for words of wisdom, honesty and hope. At first unsure of herself, Sugar finds a way to weave her own life experiences together with the deep yearning and real problems of her readers, creating a beloved column about the monstrous beauty, endless dark and glimmering light at the heart of being human.
Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story
Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered dead of an apparent suicide, the police suspect some foul play, as David's death mimics that of Stacey's first husband, Michael Wallace, who died in 2000.
Same Time, Next Christmas
Faye Anderson
Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaiian resort years later, and the old chemistry between them flares up anew—but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.
ワンダーウーマン:ブラッドライン
Julia Kapatelis (voice)
Wonder Woman tries to help a troubled young girl who has fallen in with a deadly organization known as Villainy, Inc.
Charming
Nemeny Neverwish (voice)
Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.
Car Dogs
Sharon
Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that promises to do "Whatever It Takes" to put you in a new car. But on a scorching hot Saturday in the middle of the Phoenix summer, Mark has a chance to get his own dealership - and out from under the thumb of his father. Mark has to sell thirty-five cars by the end of the day. The question: Will Mark do whatever it takes - including betraying his sales team and himself - to get what he wants?
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ウェディング2
Executive Producer
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ウェディング2
Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ウェディング2
Writer
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Helicopter Mom
Maggie
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
Dealin' with Idiots
Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.
フォー・ア・グッド・タイム・コール
Rachel Rodman
College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's apartment in New York City, the girls bicker with each other until one fateful night, when Katie's noisy bedroom activities make Lauren barge in and discover a dirty little secret. This revelation brings them closer together, and Lauren (the brains) and Katie (the talent) concoct a wildly successful business venture. As profits swell, the girls reevaluate their hopes and dreams and realize that just because someone pees in your hair in college doesn't mean she won't be your best friend 10 years later.
An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
Mrs. Brooks
A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
幸せの教室
Screenplay
ラリー・クラウンは、大学を出ていないという理由から長きにわたって勤務してきたスーパーをリストラされてしまう。その後、隣に住む夫婦の勧めで地元の大学に通うことに。大学での新生活に希望を抱くラリーだったが、ラリーを教える教師のメルセデスは仕事への情熱を失っていた。しかし、そんな二人の出会いがお互いの人生を大きく変えていく。
幸せの教室
Map Genie
ラリー・クラウンは、大学を出ていないという理由から長きにわたって勤務してきたスーパーをリストラされてしまう。その後、隣に住む夫婦の勧めで地元の大学に通うことに。大学での新生活に希望を抱くラリーだったが、ラリーを教える教師のメルセデスは仕事への情熱を失っていた。しかし、そんな二人の出会いがお互いの人生を大きく変えていく。
幸せの教室
Writer
ラリー・クラウンは、大学を出ていないという理由から長きにわたって勤務してきたスーパーをリストラされてしまう。その後、隣に住む夫婦の勧めで地元の大学に通うことに。大学での新生活に希望を抱くラリーだったが、ラリーを教える教師のメルセデスは仕事への情熱を失っていた。しかし、そんな二人の出会いがお互いの人生を大きく変えていく。
I Hate Valentine's Day
Genevieve Gernier
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
I Hate Valentine's Day
Screenplay
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
I Hate Valentine's Day
Director
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ドリーム
Georgia Ianakopolis
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos
Herself
NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was based on her one-woman play. The film became the highest-grossing independent feature and turned her in to an overnight success, spawning a follow-up sitcom and a cemented spot among Hollywood s elite writers. Listen as she talks candidly about her favorite laugh, tapping into her inner guy, and why her take on the hardest part of screenwriting just might make you blush.
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.
Greece: Secrets of the Past
Narrator
GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, is the stirring story of how a Greek archeologist of the 21st century is uncovering the secret history of his ancient ancestors who forged a society that continues to astound the world today with its ideas, inventions and achievements. Set against the breathtaking, azure vistas of the Greek Isles, the film merges a contemporary archeological “detective story” with some of the most advanced and painstaking digital re-creations ever undertaken for an IMAX® theatre film, with scenes that restore such centuries-old spectacles as the original Parthenon and the volcanic eruption that buried Santorini in 1646 BC.
Connie and Carla
Writer
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with
Connie and Carla
Connie
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ウェディング
Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos
内気な性格と冴えない外見のせいで30歳になっても恋愛経験ゼロという、シカゴに住むギリシャ系アメリカ人のトゥーラ。ハンサムな男性にひと目惚れしたことをきっかけに自分磨きに目覚めていく。ニア・ヴァルダロス主演のラヴ・ストーリー。
マイ・ビッグ・ファット・ウェディング
Screenplay
内気な性格と冴えない外見のせいで30歳になっても恋愛経験ゼロという、シカゴに住むギリシャ系アメリカ人のトゥーラ。ハンサムな男性にひと目惚れしたことをきっかけに自分磨きに目覚めていく。ニア・ヴァルダロス主演のラヴ・ストーリー。
Meet Prince Charming
Jennifer
Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so he joins one and seems to have found a great match, maybe even a soul-mate. He doesn't know it's actually his apartment block neighbor, 29-year old magazine editor Samantha Feld -who only rolled into the thing because her friend and co-worker Jen thinks she needs a man and threw a party at Samantha's place- with whom he clashed from the start in daily life as they consider each-other noisy and inconsiderate. Yet, when they meet after e-mail bliss together and nothing but failed dates with others...
Men Seeking Women
Iris
Three friends, finding themselves single on their 33'rd birthdays, agree to bet $2000 each to see who can get a girlfriend and live together for three months.
33 Liberty Lane
A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.