Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Personal life Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus to Australia in 1969 and there met his future wife, Athena—who was from Perth, her father from Andros, Greece. Athena was an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.
Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.
Television Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies. She reprised the role for the spin-off series Janet King in 2014 and 2016. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013. Demetriades appeared in the critically acclaimed 2015 Australian drama series The Principal as Hafa Habeb. In 2017 she starred in both the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Pulse as Doctor Lou Tannis. In 2018 she also starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Squinters.
In 2024, Demetriades was named in the cast for ABC series Return to Paradise.
Theatre Demetriades' theatrical work has included a role in Bell Shakespeare's Pericles—for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award—and an Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.
In April 2026, Demetriades returned to theatre for The River.
Film Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block (both 2013). In the 2015 comedy-drama Alex & Eve, she starred as Eve, a Muslim Lebanese lawyer dating a Greek Australian schoolteacher (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano).
Filmography
Film YearTitleRoleNotes2026Date 3Ella's SisterShort2019BabyteethJenny Feature film 2019Dark Whispers Volume 1ClaraFilm2018MurderRaquel BennettTV movie2017Remembering Agatha Agatha Short film2014Milk and HoneyLiliana Short film2014The Little HouseGrandmotherShort film2013Invisible Sarah Short film2013Heidi Fires EveryoneTraciShort film2013Around the BlockKatie Feature film2013NerveHelen White Feature film2010Little LeopoldCarla Short film2009Blind DateAlexandra Short film
Television +YearTitleRoleNotesRef2025The Twelve Gia PanditTV seriesNCIS: SydneyJenTV series 1 episode2024-presentReturn to ParadiseDaisy DixonTV series: 11 episodes2023The Artful Dodger Marianne Cracksworth TV series, 1 episode Mother and Son Dee TV series, 4 episodes The Claremont MurdersNikki Santos TV miniseries, 2 episodes2022The Younger ManPodcast series 2021 Clickbait Audrey TV miniseries, 1 episode The Unusual SuspectsMartha Drewe TV miniseries, 2 episodesAmazing Grace Chloe TV miniseries, 1 episode2020Reckoning Valerie TV series, 5 episodesThe End Dr Phillipa Lee TV series, 6 episodes2019The CommonsKarina TV series, 5 episodes2018-19SquintersRomi TV series, 12 episodes2019Mr BlackJulia TV series, 1 episode2018Doctor DoctorPari Thompson TV series, 1 episode2017PulseLou Tannis TV series, 8 episodes2014-17Janet KingLina BadirTV series, 24 episodes2017Seven Types of AmbiguityAngela TV series, 6 episodes2016Fragments of Friday2015The PrincipalHafa Habeb TV miniseries, 4 episodesAlex and EveEve TV series2013Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Beatrice Mason TV series, 1 episodeMr & Mrs MurderLola TV series, 1 episode2011CrowniesLina Badir TV series, 22 episodes2009All SaintsFelicity SummersTV series, 1 episode
References
Further reading Andrea Demetriades feeling right at home in STC's Perplex. The Daily Telegraph. Andrea Demetriades on a Shaw thing for return to STC main stage. The Daily Telegraph. At home with actress Andrea Demetriades. The Daily Telegraph.
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