Antonia Eugenia Vardalos, a Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter, was born 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 roles as writer and actor in the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).
She will serve as director and screenwriter for the third installment of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, in which she will reprise her role as Toula Portakalos.
What is Nia Vardalos’s ethnicity?
Nia Vardalos is a screenwriter, producer, director, and actor of Canadian and American descent. Since 1996, Nia has played leading roles in movies. Her breakthrough performance came in My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002.
Nia was born in Winnipeg to Greek-American businessman Constantine “Gus” Vardalos and his wife Doreen, a bookkeeper and domestic worker. She was born and raised in Canada before relocating to the United States, where she later naturalized in 1999. With her ex-husband, American actor Ian Gomez, she has an adoptive daughter.
Her grandmothers Eugenia and Antonia inspired the name, Nia.
