Biography
Greek-Australian actor Costas Mandilor became famous thanks to the role of a villain-detective Mark Hoffman in Horror-Franchise "Saw". But the world of cinema could never hear his name if not an injury that crossed the career of a promising football player.Childhood and youth
Louise and Jannis Theodopoulos left Greece in search of a better life. The country of Kangaroo and surf has become a pier for a young family. On September 3, 1965, the firstborn pair appeared in the Australian Melbourne. The boy was called Costas. A year later, on September 13, 1966, the spouses welcomed the second son, Louis. The head of the Yannis family worked as a taxi driver, so theodopoulos lived modestly.
As a child, Costas fell ill and all his free time chased the ball with younger brother and friends. The future of the boy was predetermined: he saw himself only on a football field with a cup in his hands. To achieve the goal, the young man did a lot and trained. It made fruit, and when Kostasi turned 18 years old, the guy was invited to play for the football team in Greece.
Mandilore's sports career developed rapidly - after three years, the football player has returned home, to Australia, where he began to play in the National Football League. However, serious injury (inflammation of the periosteum) overnight crossed all the dreams of Kostasa. About the professional career of the football player had to forget forever.
Films
In 1987, Costas Mandilor left Sunny Australia, who had been his home for many years, and left for the American dream in the United States. The guy had a new life plan - he decided to become a star of films. Mandilor ass in Los Angeles, signed up for acting courses, began to go to castings. But luck did not immediately smiled by Costas, so in his youth, the guy was enough for any job to feed himself.
Sports past harden the character of Australian, failures and testing it only spurred. Two years later, in 1989, the persistence of Kostas Mandilore was rewarded, and he received the first role. The debut film in the creative biography was the painting "Triumph of the Spirit".
1991 He became fruitful for Costas Mandilore: three works with his participation were released. In the film about the legendary vocalist The Doors Jima Morrison, an American actor with Greek roots performed an episodic role of the Italian. In the melodrama "soap foam" Mandilora was lucky to work on the same platform with Robert Downey - younger and wobble Goldberg. After the role of Frank Costello in the Criminal Dram "Gangsters" with Christian Slater and Patrick Dempsey Costas woke up star - the photo of the artist first decorated the cover of Fashion magazine. In the same 1991, People magazine included a 29-year-old actor to the list of the 50 most beautiful people of the planet.
In 1995, Mundilor starred in the fantastic militant "Virtuosity" and the erotic drama Zalman King "Delta Venus", in which he first entrusted the main male role. Fame Actor brought small roles in the famous TV shows: "Sex in the Big City", "Enchanted", "Andromeda", "Bikes from a crypt".
But the real breakthrough was waiting for Mandilore in 2006. The main role in the third part of Horror "Pila" became the best in his filmography. The actor was perfect in the image of a detective, which becomes a villain and follower of the Great John Kramer. Francé fans highly appreciated the acting talent of Mandilore, and his character Mark Hoffman quickly became cult and appeared in the sequelch: "Pila-4", "Pila-5", "Pila-6" and "Saw 3D".
The success of the horror franchise is obliged not only by the original idea, but also the acting: together with Mundilor over the films worked Betsey Russell, Carey Elves, Tobin Bell.
Personal life
The younger brother of the stars "saws" repeated his way - from the football player retrained into the actor. Luis Mandilor is most famous for the role of Nika Portalos in the film "My Great Greek Wedding."In May 1997, Kostas Mundilor married the star of the Metal Battle of Talis Soto. Spouses met in childhood, but long-term relationships did not help a pair to keep marriage. Three years later, in 2000, the actors divorced.
For 13 years, high and slender (height 182 cm, weight 78 kg) Handsome enjoyed the status of a bachelor and was not rushing under the crown. Everything changed when Mandilor met a woman, without which he did not imagine a happy personal life. On October 20, 2013, the actor was combined with a marriage with a colleague on the workshop. The wife of Mandilore became the actress Victoria Ramos, who played Horrors "Banyan" and "Road to Juarez". There are no children from spouses.
Kostasa Mandilore cannot be called an active user of social networks, but his personal pages in Facebook and "Instagram" have. Sometimes an actor pleases fans with pictures from filming and selfie.
Kostas Mandilor now
Now the career actor continues to gain momentum. In 2021, he starred in the lead roles in the films "locked", "Lazarus", "Born by champion".
Filmography
- 1989 - "Triumph of Spirit"
- 1991 - "Gangsters"
- 1992-1996 - "Frequis"
- 1997-1998 - "Players"
- 2000 - "Foreign"
- 2000 - "Secret Agents"
- 2004-2006 - "Seventh Heaven"
- 2006 - "Pila 3"
- 2007 - "Saw 4"
- 2008 - "Saw 5"
- 2009 - "Saw 6"
- 2010 - "Saw 3D"
- 2017 - "Last Ship"
- 2021 - "Birth champion"
- 2021 - "Star Front"
- 2021 - "Lazarus"