Vangelis Mourikis (Greek: Βαγγέλης Μουρίκης; b. 1963) is a Greek film actor.
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Early life
Βοrn in Athens, Greece, in 1963, Mourikis found himself at a very young age in Australia, a place where some of his family's members had emigrated in decades past, working in various jobs and, as an adolescent, taking up at some point acting lessons; he appeared in theatrical plays staged by Greek expats. Mourikis made his Greek television debut in Thodoros Maragos "Emmones Idees" alongside Angelique Rockas
He made his film debut in the 1982 production Running On Empty, "a pretty silly but finally likeable and good humoured Aussie car flick," as the Filmnews review described it, which noted the "personable" onscreen presence of Mourikis in a "more-ethnic-than-thou performance."
Career
Returning to Greece, he became known with his role in The truants, a 1996 movie featuring an ensemble of six young actors as old school friends who reunite every summer at the place where they grew up; they all shared the Best Supporting Actor award at the 27th Thessaloniki Film Festival.
In 2002, he was the lead in The King as the ex-convict who returns to his hometown and tries to fit in, in a performance said to be a "tour de force."
His performances in Rakushka (2004) and The Wake (2005) won him the Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor awards respectively at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
