A classically-trained actor from Patras (born in 1960), Gerasimos Skiadaresis has vast experience on television and stage. He has appeared in Greek translations of contemporary plays such as Mamet's Oleanna, Pinter's Betrayal and Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway.
Though Greek cinema is at a low ebb, with few films produced, Skiadaresis has made his mark in some of the best ones. Most notably, he has appeared in two films by Theodore Angelopoulos, Greece's most respected director, "Landscape in the Mist (1988)" and "Suspended Step of the Stork, The (1991)."
His performance in "Further Right Than the Right" by N. Antonakos in 1989 won him Best Actor awards from the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Valencia (Spain) Film Festival. In 1992 he was again honored by the Greek Ministry of Culture for his work in "Donousa," by A. Antoniou.
Other films include two by N. Perakis, "Loafing and Camouflage" and "Living Dangerously (19930"; also "The Noose," "White Red" and "From the Snow (1993)."
