Doukissa Nomikou (

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: Δούκισσα Νομικού: born November 7, 1986) is a Greek TV presenter and model. She was crowned Star Hellas 2007 and represented her country at the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico. From 2012 to 2017 she was the co-presenter of the TV show ''OLA'' next to

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. Also, she presented the Greek versions of shows ''Dancing with the Stars'' and ''So You Think You Can Dance''. Since 2017, is the ambassador of L'Oreal Paris. In September 2018, she participated in

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for the Le Défilé Fashion Show of L'Oreal Paris with Doutzen Kroes and Eva Longoria. Since 2018, is also ambassador of organization ''Mazi Gia To Paidi'', which helps poor kids and their families.

Early life

Nomikou was born on November 7, 1986, in

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to singer Nikos Nomikos and Anastasia Nomikou (née Piperopoulou). Her mother is German-Greek and her father is Greek from Schoinousa. She has an older brother, Nikitas (born 1985), who is economist. After school, she studied at Economical University of Athens and graduated in 2014. Along with her studies, began her modeling career with Cristy Crana's agency.

Career

Television

On May 3, 2007, Nomikou participated in ANT1's beauty pageant and she crowned

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. After that, she represented

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beauty pageant in Mexico.
In 2008, Nomikou did her debut as TV presenter, with TV show ''LifeStyle'' on Alter Channel, where she was co-presenter of Nikos Papadakis. The next season she was a cast member of ''Omorfos kosmos to proi'' as co-presenter of Grigoris Arnaoutoglou with Katerina Kainourgiou, Dimitris Ouggarezos and Maria Arabatzi. In 2009, she did a guest appearance on the series ''I Polykatoikia'' and was the ambassador of Veet creams. In 2010–2011 Nomikou was the presenter of green room on talent show ''Just The 2 Of Us'', where the main presenter was Giorgos Kapoutzidis. In October 2011, she began to present again the TV show ''LifeStyle'' but the project ended because of the channel's economic problems. In 2012, Nomikou went to channel

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and she began to present the TV show ''Laugh Attack'' with Panagiotis Chatzidakis. From 2012 to 2017 she was the co-presenter of the TV show ''Laugh Attack'' next to

and Vaggelis Perris. In 2014 worked with company Johnson's Radiant Essentials for its commercials. From 2013 to 2015, she presented the Greek version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. From autumn 2015 to winter 2016, she presented the TV show ''Joy'' but stopped because problems with the production. After that, in spring 2017, Nomikou presented the Greek version of talent show ''So You Think You Can Dance''. The judges were

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, Konstantinos Rigos and Panos Metaxopoulos. Since 2021, she hosts the show ''Super Makeover'' on

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. In the show includes also four experts, make up expert Pantelis Toutountzis, fashion stylist expert Elena Papastavrou, hair stylist expert Sofia Nomikou and the counseling psychologist expert Maria Houdalaki. In 2021, on the same channel, Nomikou hosted only the live shows of the seventh season of the show ''

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'', where the host of the show Giorgos Lianos, could not present the show, because he was absent in the

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, where he was presenting the eighth season of the show Survivor Greece.

Theatre and Cinema

Her theatre debut as an actress was in 2014, when she played the role of Beautiful Helen in theatrical play ''Troikos Polemos'' (Trojan War) with Andinoos Albanis. In cinema, Nomikou has appeared in two movies. ''I Limouzina'' (2014) and ''I Kori Tou Rebrant'' (2015).

Personal life

In 2014, Nomikou began dating entrepreneur Dimitris Theodoridis, who is

Savvas Theodoridis Savvas Theodoridis ( gr, Σάββας Θεοδωρίδης; 18 February 1935 – 17 August 2020) was a Greek football player who played as a goalkeeper for Olympiacos and the Greece national team. He was also a member of the Olympic team that ...

's son. Three years later, on June 10, 2017, they married in

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.
On March 25, 2018, Nomikou gave birth to their first child, a son, Savvas Theodoridis and on September 26, 2019, gave birth to their second child, a daughter, Anastasia Theodoridi.

Filmography

Television

Theater

Cinema

References

External links

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