Actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Antonia Eugenia Vardalos was born in Canada on September 24, 1962.
She gained nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her work on the romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which she also starred in and wrote.
Does Nia Vardalos have children?
Nia has a child named Ilaria Gomez.
Vardalos married actor Ian Gomez from the United States in September 1993. Vardalos and Gomez adopted their daughter, Ilaria, in 2008 after nine years of unsuccessful IVF and surrogacy attempts to conceive.
Ilaria was three years old at the time and in the foster care system. In a New York Times bestseller titled Instant Mom, Vardalos wrote a book about the event in 2013 and donated all of the revenues to adoption organizations. In The Huffington Post, Vardalos also published a column offering adoption-related advice.
After 23 years of marriage and having already been apart since June 2017, it was revealed on July 3, 2018, that Vardalos had filed for divorce from Gomez. It took two months to finalize the divorce.
