Takis Spyridakis

Takis (Panagiotis) Spyridakis (Greek: Τάκης (Παναγιώτης) Σπυριδάκης, Aegina, 4 February 1958 - Athens, 14 September 2019) was a Greek film, theatre and television actor, director and screenwriter. Takis Spyridakis was born in Aegina and grew up in Piraeus, where he also went to school. He worked in various jobs from a young age (he went to night school). He often watched films, but without initially being oriented towards the acting profession. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre, which he abandoned shortly before the end. He has participated in 13 films while his directorial debut was in 1994 with the film The Garden of God, for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film was awarded 7 state quality awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Spyridakis first appeared on the big screen playing one of the protagonists in the film Sweet Gang, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (1983). For his performance, he won the special performance award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival that same year. His second participation was also noteworthy, in Nikos Perakis's Loufa and Variation (1984). This was followed by Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1986), Family Protector (Nikos Pera