Charis Romas or Haris Romas (Greek: Χάρης Ρώμας) is a

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

, and

lyricist A lyricist is a songwriter who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment. Royalties A lyricist's income ...

. He was born on 23 March 1960 in

Piraeus Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saronic ...

as Haralambos Rassias (Χαράλαμπος Ρασσιάς). He is most well known for co-writing and starring in the popular TV shows

Konstantinou kai Elenis ''Konstantinou kai Elenis'' ( el, Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης; en, Konstantino's and Eleni's) is a Greek TV sitcom broadcast on ANT1 Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece. The alternate spel ...

and

To kafe tis Charas To kafe tis Charas (Greek: Το καφέ της Χαράς lit. Joy's café) is a Greek comedy-drama TV series that broadcast on ANT1 for three seasons from September 2003 to mid-2006, before being revived for a fourth and a fifth season since Dec ...

, where he played the iconic roles of Konstantinos Katakouzinos and Periandros Popotas respectively. He is also a politician, having run as an alderman for the region of

Attica Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Se ...

in the 2019 Greek local elections.

Biography

He was born with the name Charalambos Rassias in 1960. He graduated from the Moraitis school and entered the medical school of Athens. When he was 25 years old he married a fellow student and the marriage lasted only for 2 years. Instead of a doctor, he chose to become an actor and he studied in the dramatic schools of theater of art Katselis. His parents did not agree with this decision and especially his father, who stopped talking to him and forbade him to use his surname. For this reason, he adopted the surname of his mother. His relationship with his father recovered only shortly before his mother's death.

Filmography

Animated films

Quest for Camelot ''Quest for Camelot'' (released internationally as ''The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot'') is a 1998 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Frederik Du Chau and very loosely based on the ...

(Devon) (Greek version) *

The Wild ''The Wild'' is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by animator Steve "Spaz" Williams and written by Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin. It features the voices of Eddie Izzard, Kiefer Sutherla ...

(Nigel the Koala) (Greek version)

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* 1960 births Living people 20th-century Greek male actors 21st-century Greek male actors Greek male film actors Greek male stage actors Greek comedians Greek screenwriters Writers from Piraeus Actors from Piraeus {{Greece-actor-stub