Nia Vardalos
Nia Vardalos
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalosis an American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer of Greek descent. Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award–nominated film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was based on a one-woman stage play she dramatized and in which she starred...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 September 1962
CityWinnipeg, Canada
CountryCanada
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My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.
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Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.
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If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
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In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
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I've understood the desire for a sequel, because I hear it all the time from my family and everyone I run into at a Starbucks.
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On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
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Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.
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You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.
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I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!
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I have this theory of life that there are four popular people in high school and then there are the rest of us. I write movies for the rest of us who never peaked in high school. For the people that did peak in high school and then realized later that it's all downhill, welcome to the movie as well.
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I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
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I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
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The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
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I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.