Georges Corraface has risen to star status in Europe throughout a career in film, theatre and television. This ruggedly charismatic leading man is notably a box-office draw in Greece, Spain and France, where he lives and is a popular celebrity. A classically trained and versatile actor, his gift for languages and his multi-cultural background has enabled him to work in eight languages and an even wider variety of accents. At the height of an auspicious and daring theater career, as a member of the famed Peter Brook Company in Paris, Corraface was discovered by David Lean in 1987. The legendary director cast him in the title role of "Nostromo". Although the film was never made, due to Lean's illness, the resultant attention launched Corraface into American productions with films like Not Without My Daughter (1991), Impromptu (1991), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) and Escape from L.A. (1996). In recent years, however, he has found his most challenging and successful roles in European film and television where his original characterizations have won him a loyal and ever-growing following, critical acclaim and Best Actor award s. The smolderingly lusty Yaman in La pasión turca (1994) wooed audiences in Spain. Meanwhile, in France, Corraface was getting rave reviews for a wide variety of starring movie roles, ranging from the candid and ebullient macho, Cheto, in the romantic comedy Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan (1998) to the swarthy and noble ex-con, Max, in the dark psychological thriller Préférence (1998). In Greece, he made his mark with his performances first as a tormented and emotionally disconnected everyman in I sfagi tou kokora (1996), then as the comically naive and soulful peasant on a pilgrimage in To tama (2001). Both parts earned him the highest film award s in Greece. He went on to portray Fannis, the introspective and traumatized exile in the nostalgic comedy Politiki kouzina (2003), which broke all Greek box-office records before conquering audiences abroad. French television has made Corraface a broadcast star with mini-series roles like the suavely sophisticated François in "La bicyclette bleue" (2000), the hurt and sensitive rebel Thomas in "L'été rouge" (2002), or the earnestly bumbling professor in "Le château des oliviers" (1993)". Other TV productions focusing on contemporary issues have reinforced his popularity, through characters such as the haunted, hard-drinking journalist Rachid in the made for Arte film, Alger-Beyrouth: Pour mémoire (1998) (TV), or as Alex, a solitary, fast-talking swat team crisis negociator in "Alex Santana, négociateur" (2002), a series of made-for-TV movies (TF1). Overall, Corraface appears to enthusiastically alternate his more commercial work with dedicated involvement in less mainstream "films d'auteurs" with a new generation of independent filmmakers.

Is fluent in Greek, English and French.Starred in Greek record breaking box office hit Politiki kouzina (2003) in 2003. The only Greek film to be sold to 35 countries in decades.Was appointed President of The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, as of September 2005 by The Greek Ministry of Culture.Has performed in English, French, Greek, Spanish, German, Kurdish, Turkish, Russian, plus a wide variety of accents.Joined Peter Brook's company for the celebrated 11 hour "Mahabharata" with which he toured all over the world for 3 years before doing a filmed version. Then, went on with "The Tempest" which won a Molière.Starred in six Greek films, four of them ( I sfagi tou kokora (1996), Peppermint (1999), Politiki kouzina (2003), I horodia tou Haritona (2005)) went on to represent Greece at the Oscars for the Best Foreign Film selection, having won each time the Best Film of the Year Award in Greece.Was under contract and on stand- by for four years after having been screen tested by David Lean to play the title role Nostromo, in his adaptation from Joseph Conrad 's masterpiece "Nostromo". The film was originally produced by Steven Spielberg , then Serge Silberman took over, but it was never to be shot because Sir David Lean took ill and died.He had to enroll in more than 20 gyms, as he was working on various theater or cinema productions around the world over that period, in order to stay fit to portray Nostromo, a 19th century docker.Replaced Timothy Dalton in the title role of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), with three days notice before shooting began.Marlon Brando asked him to play the villain in "Bullboy", his original script that he wanted to produce with Sean Penn directing."Texican" director Robert Rodriguez nicknamed him "The Freek" (French + Greek = Freek, like Texan + Mexican= Texican.) when they met on the set of Escape from L.A. (1996). To this day, Corraface replies "I'm a Freek!" whenever he's asked about his background.Later on, tested for the role of Zorro when Robert Rodriguez was to direct The Mask of Zorro (1998).Preparing to play a bum in Camille des Lilas et les voleurs d'enfants (2005) by Jean-Louis Milesi , he asked his dentist to dismount his bridge and walked the streets of Paris in character for days, managing to stay incognito at a time when he had become extremely popular in the wake of a string of hits on French TV, like "L'été rouge" (2002) and "Alex Santana, négociateur" (2002).-He is a motorcycle Grand Prix fan and was himself an expert racetrack pilot.Did the car stunt in Meine Tochter gehört mir (1992).In 1976, dropped out of theater for 3 years, doing odd jobs, hitchhiking through Europe and the U.S., and singing his lyrics in what he describes as "pre-rap-free-jazz-punk" happenings.Was born in Paris of Greek parents, musicians who had emigrated after WW II.Father is Dimitri Chorafas, symphony conductor with a European career, who was asked to become Director of the Athens Opera after the military junta was deposed in 1974.Ancestors belonged to the Di Carafa family of the Naples and Sicily Kingdom. First settled on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1497.Grandfather Georges Chorafas was a violinist and famous children's song writer.Aunt Maria Chorafas was a pianist and a off- Broadway playwright in the sixties. Two of her plays were performed at The Circle in the Square in New York.Studied theater at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris with famed experimental director Antoine Vitez . One of the scandalous performances that they did -with Georges in the role of Phaedra in Jean Racine 's classic- brought about such controversy between the conservatives (les classiques) and the progressives (les modernes) of the French theater world that The Conservatory was momentarily shut down.At The National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris he met Rosalie Wallock, a young American playwright and UC Berkeley graduate, whom he was later to marry. They wrote and produced " A Fairytale for Social Scientists ", a Big Brother paranoia play, as their graduate project.