Ivan Svitailo
Acting
Biography
Ivan Nikolaevich Svitaylo (Russian: Иван Николаевич Свитайло, Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Світайло, born September 6, 1985 in Yalta, Crimea, USSR) is a Greek-Russian dancer, choreographer and actor. He was born in 1985 in Yalta, Crimea, where he spent his early years. His father is of Russian origin, while his mother is Greek. In 1995, at the age of 10, he settled with his mother in Greece. At the age of 15, he began to dance, taking part in various dance groups with which he participated in various performances. After finishing school, he began his dance studies at the State School of Choreography, the Niki Kontaxakis Higher Professional School of Dance, ballet at the National Opera while he was a scholar of the Onassis Foundation. He began working in the theater as a dancer in 2006. in the 2009 season Strella. In 2008 he settled in the USA where he worked as a dancer and studied acting at the New York Film Academy. He returned to Greece in 2011, starting his collaboration with director Yannis Kakleas in the theater. He became particularly well-known to the general public in 2014 from his appearance on the celebrity music show Just the 2 of us on Mega Channel. There he competed with Elena Tsagkrinou, reaching the final four of the competition. In 2015, he joined the starring cast of the second season of the comedy series Kato Partali, playing Rousso Rousounelos. In 2017, he was a member of the jury of the dance show So you think you can dance, on Ant1. From March 2019 to July 2020, he had one of the leading roles in the daily series Woman Without a Name, on Ant1.[1][2][3][4] He is married to actress Stavriana Garnavou, with whom he has a daughter, Nefeli. In the 2021 season, the series Almost Adults, by Mega, 42°C by Cosmote TV, in the 2022 season, The Masked Singer by Sky, in the 2022–2023 season, the series Wild Land by Sky, in the 2023 season, Milky Way by Mega, in the 2023–2024 season, the series On the Wires by ERT1.
Known For
A man returns to the land where he was born and lived, to the land that was his but no longer belongs to him. He smells the soil, feels it fertile and heavy in his fingers, just like years ago, when a kidnapping cut the thread of his life in two and showed him its wild side, depriving him of family and property, forcing him to hide behind a new identity. Aris fights and survives but never forgets what he was deprived of. The dramatic daily series "Wild Land"...
Agria Gi
A golden boy suddenly lands in exotic Kato Partali, a village in Arcadia with many beauties, many secrets and very special people.
Kato Partali
Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Milky Way
The heart chooses whom it calls its own child! Using the powerful and sensitive issue of child abuse as its vehicle, the series tells the gripping story of a woman who responds to the silent cries for help of an abused girl. At the same time, it focuses on the moving theme of mother-daughter relationships. Despite the weight of its subject matter, at the core of this compelling drama lies one central idea: love.
Call me mom
Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love.
Strella
Lost in the thick fog of a freezing night, about ten followers of Satan, delirious with ecstasy, glorify Ahriman. The Witch completes the macabre ritual, sacrificing a sixteen-year-old girl to the Lord of Darkness and invites him to come to their Sabbath party. The Goat of Mendes inexplicably and mysteriously appears among them and the Satanists, in a state of frenzied paranoia, surrender to a delirium of insanity. Suddenly, the Holy Inquisitor, accompanied by a group of soldiers, interrupts the satanic ritual, arrests the Witch and tortures her until she confesses that she is a heretic and a follower of Satan.
Demons
Jenny Petromichali is a widow who has just turned forty, but everyone keeps telling her that she is "forty and...". A flirtatious young woman, she falls in love with a charming but poor violinist and comes face to face with her brothers, who want to marry her off to the elderly George Hatzithomas, a rich but deaf shipowner. Jenny's love affair is a scandal for the morals of the time and her social class...
A Crazy, Crazy 40-Year-Old Woman
A delightful comedy filled with uproarious situations, hilarious lines, and a fresh perspective, unfolding both inside and outside the prison walls.