Nia Vardalos

Q: Has Nia Vardalos won any awards?

Nia Vardalos received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' She has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe nomination for her work in the film.

Q: What was Nia Vardalos's first film?

Nia Vardalos's first film was 'For Better or for Worse' (1994), where she had a minor role. However, her major breakthrough came with 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' in 2002.

Q: What are Nia Vardalos's most successful films?

Nia Vardalos is best known for 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' and its sequel, 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.' Both films enjoyed commercial success and solidified her status in Hollywood.

Q: What is Nia Vardalos's personal life like?

Nia Vardalos was married to actor Ian Gomez from 1993 to 2018. They have one daughter, Illaria Vardalos, whom they adopted in 2008.

Q: What is Nia Vardalos's estimated net worth?

Nia Vardalos's estimated net worth is around $10 million, primarily from her successful acting, writing, and directing career, especially from her work on the 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' franchise.

Q: What are some milestones in Nia Vardalos's filmography?

In addition to the 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' films, Nia Vardalos starred in 'Connie and Carla' (2004) and 'My Life in Ruins' (2009). She also appeared in various television shows, including 'The Mindy Project.'

Q: How has Nia Vardalos influenced Hollywood?

Nia Vardalos has influenced Hollywood by breaking stereotypes associated with ethnic actors. Her success with 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' opened doors for more diverse stories and representation in film.

Known for

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2002 / Comedy, Drama / 95mins

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

IMDb 6.0 / 10

2016 / Comedy, Romance / 94 min

The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

Name

Nia Vardalos

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

20 September 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Spouses

Ian Gomez (1993–2018)

Children

1 daughter, Illaria Vardalos

Parents

Angelos Vardalos, Diane Vardalos

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie You, Me & Tuscany When a woman crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner's fiancée, she discovers an unexpected romance that...	Mrs. Dunn	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver...	Toula Portokalos-Miller	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	TV Battle of the Decades Teams of two chefs from different generations tackle challenges that require them to incorporate popular ingredients and gadgets from the...	Self - Judge	Not rated
2022	TV Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.	Madame Levine	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie The Curse of Bridge Hollow A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's...	Madam Hawthorne	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2022	Movie Ivy + Bean Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless....	Mrs. Trantz	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2022	Movie Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go Cold, white mist. Clanking pipes. And an eerie voice that's coming from the drain. Is the school bathroom... haunted? Ivy...	Mrs. Trantz	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2021	TV Chucky After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos...	Evelyn Elliott	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2021	TV Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, celebrity contestants spin the wheel and solve word puzzles for a chance to...	Self - Contestant	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	TV Name That Tune A revival of the American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of...	Self - Contestant	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie A Taste of Christmas When Natalie learns her cousin Francesca must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant, Natalie’s heart goes...	Olivia	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	Movie Tiny Beautiful Things In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later...	Sugar	Not rated
2020	TV Stars in the House In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky...	Self	Not rated
2020	Movie Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss,...	Stacey	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	Movie Same Time, Next Christmas Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii....	Faye Anderson	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	Movie Wonder Woman: Bloodlines Witness the legendary origin of renowned Justice League member Wonder Woman as she fights for good with her sword and...	Julia Kapatelis (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Charming Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.	Nemeny Neverwish (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2018	TV Station 19 A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in...	Patricia	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2017	TV DuckTales The adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, their famous uncle Donald Duck, pilot extraordinaire...	Selene (voice)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2017	Movie Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni Star returns to her home dimension of Mewni where she discovers that magic is disappearing throughout the kingdom. Star must...	Angie Diaz (voice)	Not rated
2016	TV Graves Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim...	Annie Spiro	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	Movie Car Dogs Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto,...	Sharon	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2016	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."	Toula Portokalos-Miller	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	TV The Great American Baking Show A selection of America's best amateur bakers compete in a series of themed challenges and eliminations as they look to...	Self - Host	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	TV Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at...	Wendy Legrand	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	TV Dr. Ken Dr. Ken is a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as...	Tiffany	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2015	TV Celebrity Family Feud Celebrity Family Feud pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	Movie Helicopter Mom Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she...	Maggie	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2015	TV Star vs. the Forces of Evil Intergalactic warrior Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. She continues to battle villains throughout the...	Angie Diaz (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2015	TV Star vs. the Forces of Evil Intergalactic warrior Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. She continues to battle villains throughout the...	Mrs. Diaz (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2014	TV Jane the Virgin A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her...	Barbara	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2014	TV Celebrity Name Game Celebrity Name Game is an American syndicated game show which premiered on September 22, 2014. Based on the board game...	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2013	Movie Dealin' with Idiots Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2012	Movie For a Good Time, Call... College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's...	Rachel Rodman	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2012	Movie An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.	Mrs. Brooks	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2011	Movie Larry Crowne When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over....	Map Genie (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	TV The Good Guys Once upon the 1970s, Dan Stark and his partner, Frank Savage, were big-shot Dallas detectives. So big, in fact, that...	Eileen	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2009	TV Cougar Town Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter....	Angela Torres	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	TV Drop Dead Diva A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant,...	Lisa Shane	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2009	Movie I Hate Valentine's Day A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself...	Genevieve Gernier	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2009	Movie My Life in Ruins A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of...	Georgia Ianakopolis	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2007	Movie The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My...	Herself	Not rated
2006	Movie Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie Greece: Secrets of the Past GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, is the stirring story of how a...	Narrator	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2005	TV Grey's Anatomy Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.	Karen	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2004	TV The Soup With this satirical series, the E! Entertainment Network returns to a format they helped create with the popular '90s show...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2004	Movie Connie and Carla After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where...	Connie	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	TV On Air with Ryan Seacrest On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated television talk show, which ran from January 12, 2004 through September...	Self	TMDB 9.5 / 10
2003	TV The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	TV My Big Fat Greek Life From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in...	Nia Miller-Portokalos	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while...	Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2000	TV Curb Your Enthusiasm The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem...	Lawyer	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Minonna Efron	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	Movie Meet Prince Charming Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of...	Jennifer	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1998	TV Two Guys and a Girl Welcome to Beacon Street Pizza, the perfect workplace and hangout for aimless wise-guy Berg, neurotic Pete and campus beauty Sharon....	Evelyn	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1997	TV Team Knight Rider Team Knight Rider is a syndicated television series that was adapted from the Knight Rider franchise and ran between 1997...	Domino	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie Men Seeking Women Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars...	Iris	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1995	TV The Drew Carey Show Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten...	Grace Almada	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	TV Boy Meets World The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy...	Mrs. Gallagher	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1992	TV The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.	Unknown character	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1981	TV Entertainment Tonight Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Host	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie 21 Down Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Caden Cox made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to play...	Aunt Robbie	Not rated
TBA	Movie Nutmeg & Mistletoe Follows Alma, a young girl who writes to Santa asking for help after her town loses Christmas spirit. Two misfit...	Mayor Rita Brown	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2023	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2021	Movie Tiny Beautiful Things In this unforgettable play, wit and hard-won wisdom are dished out in the advice column exchanges between a writer who...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2021	Movie Tiny Beautiful Things In this unforgettable play, wit and hard-won wisdom are dished out in the advice column exchanges between a writer who...	Adaptation Writing	Not rated
2020	Movie Tiny Beautiful Things In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2016	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Larry Crowne When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over....	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Larry Crowne When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie I Hate Valentine's Day A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2009	Movie I Hate Valentine's Day A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2004	Movie Connie and Carla After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	Movie Connie and Carla After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	TV My Big Fat Greek Life From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in...	Co-Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	TV My Big Fat Greek Life From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	TV My Big Fat Greek Life From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in...	Creator Creator	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	Movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10

You, Me & Tuscany

2026 / TMDB 7.3

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

2023 / TMDB 5.9

The Curse of Bridge Hollow

2022 / TMDB 6.5

Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go

2022 / TMDB 6.8

Ivy + Bean

2022 / TMDB 6.7

A Taste of Christmas

2020 / TMDB 6.0

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Nia Vardalos gained fame with her breakout role in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' in 2002, which became a cultural phenomenon and grossed over $350 million worldwide. She also wrote and directed the film, showcasing her multifaceted talent.

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