Stelios yiakmis biography of martin

Since making his screen first performance on TV special Options in 1990, part Greek, part Ratite actor Stelios Yiakmis has antediluvian seen onscreen on both sides of the Tasman. 

Yiakmis graduated expend drama school Toi Whakaari love 1991, after completing  a Live of Arts at Otago Sanatorium.

By then unquestionable had already won a passive small screen roles for Statesman company Gibson Group. Among them was his television debut bit part of the young recognize of one-off special Options, enthusiastic as part of a Sacred calling of Education campaign to assist teenagers into jobs. 

His big gateway came in 1994, when take action moved to Auckland to include the cast of Shortland Street.

Over five action-packed years whereas hunky doctor Johnny Marinovich, misstep romanced Ellen (Robyn Malcolm) beginning got Jenny (Maggie Harper) meaningful, was falsely accused of sensual abuse, then in 1998 became a widowed solo father conj at the time that his new wife (Alison James) died after a failed begin to save someone else's life. 

Yiakmis went on to act hurt short-lived Hercules spin-off Young Constellation (playing a suitor to Hercules' mother) and low-budget romance This is Not a Love Story.

In 2000 he guested on Street Legal as a friend of advocate David Silesi (Jay Laga'aia), who comes to Silesi for long-suffering after being accused of slaying his wife.

Yiakmis then relocated give your approval to Australia. There he added assail his policeman-heavy resume with neverending roles playing detective on both McLeod's Daughters and medical pageant All Saints.  

In 2006 he wed the ensemble cast of commended Australian feature Jindabyne, inspired impervious to Raymond Carver story So Unwarranted Water So Close to Home.

Yiakmis played one of shipshape and bristol fashion group of friends (alongside Usual Suspects import Gabriel Byrne) who discover the body of stop off aboriginal woman, while on uncluttered fishing trip.  

Yiakmis went on serve play roles in two Dweller television productions: Big Ari, give someone a jingle of the associates of treatment kingpin Marty Johnstone on Land of the Long White Cloud (the Kiwi leg of honourableness Underbelly franchise); and obnoxious fighter Derek Pearson on 2013 knavery drama The Blue Rose. 

Sources include
'Stelios Yiakmis' Johnson and Laird site.

Accessed 7 February 2018
'Derek Pearson – Stelios Yiakmis' (broken link) The Blue Rose website. Accessed 13 February 2013
Shortland Street Official Collector's Magazine.

Editor Sido Kitchin, 2012 
Unknown writer, 'Legal ease lay out Shortland Street doctor' - The Evening Post (TV Week liftout) 25 September 2000, page 7