Minas Chatzisavvas

Minas Chatzisavvas — Biography

Across theatre, cinema and television, Minas Chatzisavvas worked for many years as a Greek actor and screenwriter. He won four film awards and two television awards, given for both leading and supporting work. One of his last film appearances, Worlds Apart (2015), came out shortly before he died in Athens on 30 November 2015.

He began his training in France and then studied at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens. His first stage role came in 1965 at the Ancient Theatre of Dodona, as Paris in Euripides' Rhesus. He moved into cinema in 1970. His film awards were for Ta Paidia tou Kronou, Kleisti Strofi, Lilly's Story and Worlds Apart; his television awards were for the series I Agapi Argise mia Mera and Nyhterino Deltio.

His screen roles include Pavlos Kyriazis in the series Anastasia (1993), Andreas in Apontes (1996), Petros Voliotis in The King (2002), a police commander in Hostage (2005) and Officer Dimitriou in J.A.C.E. (2011). In Kokkinos Kyklos (2000) he played several characters. He was also in the cast of festival films such as Unfair World (2011) and Miss Violence. In Worlds Apart he played Antonis.