Andrea Demetriades

Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus to Australia in 1969 and there met his future wife, Athena—who was from Perth, her father from Andros, Greece. Athena was an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.

Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.blind-date-movie.com/cast.html|title=Blind Date|publisher=Blind Date}}

Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/crownies/characters/LINA_BADIR.htm|title=Lina Badir - Characters - Crownies - ABC TV|work=abc.net.au|access-date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212215941/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/crownies/characters/LINA_BADIR.htm|archive-date=12 December 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} She reprised the role for the spin-off series Janet King in 2014 and 2016. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013. Demetriades appeared in the critically acclaimed 2015 Australian drama series The Principal as Hafa Habeb.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2015/10/the-principal.html|title=The Principal|work=TV Tonight|date=16 October 2015 |access-date=7 November 2015}} In 2017 she starred in both the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Pulse as Doctor Lou Tannis. In 2018 she also starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Squinters.

In 2024, Demetriades was named in the cast for ABC series Return to Paradise.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=David |date=2024-04-09 |title=Return to Paradise filming in Illawarra {{!}} TV Tonight |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/04/return-to-paradise-filming-in-illawarra.html |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=tvtonight.com.au |language=en-AU}}

Demetriades' theatrical work has included a role in Bell Shakespeare's Pericles—for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award—and an Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/interview-andrea-demetriades-20120119-1q6zq.html|title=Interview: Andrea Demetriades|first=Elissa|last=Blake|date=21 January 2012|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media}}

Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block (both 2013). In the 2015 comedy-drama Alex & Eve, she starred as Eve, a Muslim Lebanese lawyer dating a Greek Australian schoolteacher (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano).{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/22/alex-eve-review-cultural-clashes-and-baklava-in-a-greek-lebanese-love-story|title=Alex & Eve review – cultural clashes and baklava in a Greek-Lebanese love story|first=Luke|last=Buckmaster|date=22 October 2015|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited}}

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• [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/arts/andrea-demetriades-feeling-right-at-home-in-stcs-perplex/story-fniv7r7y-1226859490662 Andrea Demetriades feeling right at home in STC's Perplex]. The Daily Telegraph.
• [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/arts/andrea-demetriades-on-a-shaw-thing-for-return-to-stc-main-stage/story-fniv7r7y-1227531104547 Andrea Demetriades on a Shaw thing for return to STC main stage]. The Daily Telegraph.
• [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/home-garden/at-home-with-actress-andrea-demetriades/story-fni0dlbp-1227055169116?sv=68e983606eee27e80b7fd47f4bfb45bf At home with actress Andrea Demetriades]. The Daily Telegraph.

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