Writer/Actress, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
NIA VARDALOS is the only woman to have solo-written an original film franchise.
Vardalos wrote and starred in the number one romantic comedy of all time, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING and its two sequels (directed the third.)
Selected film credits include CONNIE AND CARLA, I HATE VALENTINE’S DAY, MY LIFE IN RUINS, LARRY CROWNE, CHUCKY, IVY + BEAN, Guillermo Del Toro’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES.
Television work includes, CHUCKY, LAW and ORDER: SVU.
Voice work includes creating her original Audible series, MOTIVATED!, and series regular roles on STAR vs. EVIL, WONDER WOMAN, DUCK TALES.
An award winning alumnus of The Second City Toronto and Chicago, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, TWELTH NIGHT, KISMET, MUSIC MAN, COMPANY, Ms. Vardalos is the New York Times Critic’s Pick and on the list of Top Ten Most Produced Playwrights for her play, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, directed by (HAMILTON) Thomas Kail. This year, Ms. Vardalos also performed the play in Greek, in Athens, Greece.
Ms. Vardalos is the New York Times bestselling author of her memoir INSTANT MOM and donates all proceeds to adoption charities which has resulted in 2000 children being placed in permanent homes.2026: Vardalos will next be seen in YOU, ME and TUSCANY with Halle Bailey, and is currently filming 21 DOWN with Ashley Judd, and NUTMEG and MISTLETOE with Cedric Yarbrough.
Diablo Cody, Cord Jefferson, Graham Moore, Nia Vardalos and the writers of KPop Demon Hunters on breaking through by ignoring the advice. Los Angeles 2026.
