Nico Lathouris
January 1, 1970 (56 years old) in
Nico Lathouris (born 1944) is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as George Polides in the 1993 romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid and as George Poulos in the 1994 television teen drama spin-off Heartbreak High. In both, he plays a Greek Australian patriarch, father of the protagonist, Nick (Alex Dimitriades). Lathouris was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film at the 1993 Australian Film Institute Awards. He is also the co-screenwriter of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Nico Lathouris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2001 · Serenades as Mullah Jalal-Shah
- 1996 · What I Have Written as Claude Murnane
- 1996 · Water Rats as Peter Marchand
- 1994 · Gino as Rocco Petri
- 1994 · Heartbreak High as George Poulos
- 1993 · The Heartbreak Kid as George
- 1992 · Phoenix as Lenny
- 1992 · Phoenix as Lenny Ryan
- 1991 · Death in Brunswick as Mustafa
- 1991 · Police Rescue as Nicos Angelopoulos
- 1990 · Father as Amos
- 1990 · Jigsaw as Ed Minter
- 1988 · Rikky and Pete as Con Ionides
- 1987 · Rafferty's Rules as Kevin Grumley
- 1986 · The Flying Doctors as Spiros Polites
- 1985 · Wrong World as Rangott
- 1984 · Where the Green Ants Dream as Arnold
- 1982 · Desolation Angels as Nightman
- 1979 · Mad Max as Grease Rat
- 1971 · St. Vincent's Revue Film as