Yannis Stankoglou is a Greek actor, working in film and theatre in Greece, Europe and the United States. He has toured internationally with productions of Greek tragedy and modern works, representing Greek theatre in China, Latin America, and Russia. Stankoglou was born in Athens, and worked as a builder and construction worker in his teens, before discovering theatre, attending the Athens Drama School, studying and working in New York, then returning to Greece to become a major figure in the th