Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Actress Tonia Sotiropoulou has been a delightful arrival on multiple screens, large and small. She loves to laugh and believes in complete transparency; a rarity in her profession & boldly lives her life without a filter.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Tonia is of Greek Cyprus descent and was born on April 28, 1987, in Athens, Greece.
- She uses exclusively Greek designers in all her fashion, endorsing her native land. She says she wants to make her country and family proud and is appreciative of their support.
- At five-foot-six-inches tall, this Athenian beauty has moved from her life in Greece, but still continues to be successful everywhere. She was listed as number four in IMDB’s International Most Beautiful and Exotic Actresses list in the world.
- For her education, Tonia attended “Giorgos Kimoulis Modern Theatre of Athens” drama school in Athens, but did not graduate. She also studied at the KEA Drama school and has always dreamed of an international career.
- She moved to London to pursue acting when she was 20 years old, and just four years later was an A-lister.
- Throughout her adult life, she is immersed in acting and fashion and had a brief stay in Berlin prior to living in England.
Jobs, Career and Net Worth :
- Sotiropoulou has played television roles in True Romance, Ran into You, and The Golden Girls and has recently been in Brotherhood, Hercules, and most notably was a Bond girl in Skyfall.
- She has also been in the thriller Berberian Sound Studio and the short films Paolo and Sleeping with Phil Ramrod.
- As a participant in the 2017 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Tonia promoted the film Berberian Sound Studio, and enjoyed the magic of the festival while conversing with other actors.
- She hopes to continue to make films, and return to the theater and released a movie project with her partner, Alexis Georgoulis who is also a Greek Actor. They play lovers in the film Everything is Wonderful, released in 2017.
- Tonia is also associated with jewelry line Angelo Al Spirito Rosa (The Wicked Fairy) as a spokesmodel with a refined uncompromising independence who projects sensuality and feminism.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Sotiropoulou claims to be “a gay man, trapped in a woman’s body” and is an advocate for equality. As a lingerie model, actress, diva and fashionista, she supports women’s rights to redefine beauty.
- Tonia is a vegan, who once posed with raw eggs and seafood holding a piece of raw meat for a photoshoot. It was torture, but having proved her toughness and versatility plenty of times before, she rose to the challenge.
- She has a black leather jacket from Top Shop & a cashmere hoody by Nikos Krithariotis, which she says she will never discard from her closet, and also sports Hypnose by Lancome. However, she says that her mother, who is the strongest and most caring person she knows, encouraged her to never be too attached to material things.
- Tonia Sotiropoulou did not hold a valid driver’s license for decades, because a clever woman never needs to drive!