Nico Lathouris
Nico Lathouris is an Australian-born actor and writer of Greek descent.
Life and career
Lathouris has worked on the television series Police Rescue. He appeared in George Miller's film Mad Max (1979) as a car mechanic. He also ran film and drama workshops for the Australian Film Commission.
Lathouris is best known for the role of George Poulos in Heartbreak High, as well as being the series drama coach responsible for developing the skills of the younger actors and actresses who starred in the series. He helped to develop realistic characters from a whole variety of ethnic backgrounds. The series marked a big shift in the way that life in Australia is represented in TV drama. In the past, many shows had not reflected all the different cultures which exist side-by-side in Australia's big cities, and Heartbreak High broke the mould by acknowledging and celebrating the country's cultural mix.
Lathouris is co-screenwriter (alongside George Miller) of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
Selected filmography
- Journey Among Women (1977) - Soldier
- Mad Max (1979) - Grease Rat
- Desolation Angels (1982) - Nightman
- Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) - Arnold
- The Young Wife (1984, TV Movie) - Yannis
- Wrong World (1985) - Rangott
- Rikky and Pete (1988) - Con Ionides
- Georgia (1988) - Bystander #2
- Belinda (1988) - Benny Rose
- Against the Innocent (1989) - Tim McKenzie
- Father (1990) - Amos
- Death in Brunswick (1990) - Mustafa
- Heaven Tonight (1990) - Hot dog man
- Jigsaw (1990) - Ed Minter
- The Heartbreak Kid (1993) - George
- Gino (1994) - Rocco Petri
- What I Have Written (1996) - Claude Murnane
- Serenades (2001) - Mullah Jalal-Shah
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Writer)
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, Writer)
External links
- Nico Lathouris at IMDb
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for Best Script
- Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973)
- Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974)
- Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975)
- Star Wars – George Lucas (1977)
- The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
- Galaxy Quest – David Howard and Robert Gordon (2000)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2004)
- Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005)
- Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (2006)
- Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007)
- WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter (2008)
for Outstanding
Dramatic Presentation
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron (1992)
- Babylon 5 – J. Michael Straczynski (1999)
- 2000X – Tales of the Next Millennia – Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (2001)
- Joss Whedon (2008)
- District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (2009)
- Inception – Christopher Nolan (2010)
- Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" – Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman (2011)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar (2012)
- Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (2013)
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (2014)
- Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris (2015)
- Arrival – Denis Villeneuve and Eric Heisserer (2016)
- Get Out – Jordan Peele (2017)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
- Good Omens: "Hard Times" – Neil Gaiman (2019)
- The Good Place: "Whenever You're Ready" – Michael Schur (2020)
- WandaVision – Jac Schaeffer and writing staff (2021)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- Barbie - Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)
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