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Nia Vardalos
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Toula Portokalos (played by Nia Vardalos) is her family’s despair. Much as they love her, her parents Gus and Maria can’t understand why, at 30, Toula is still unmarried. She works hard in the family’s Chicago restaurant, Dancing Zorba’s, but she looks as if she doesn’t care. Worst of all, she refuses her father’s help in finding a husband…
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Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are second rate singers performing show tunes in airport lounges. After witnessing a crime, they flee from the criminals that want them dead and go into hiding.
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Nia Vardalos, the star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," filmed part of a new romantic comedy among the ruins on the Acropolis. The scene will appear in "My Life in Ruins," ... starring Richard Dreyfuss, and follows a decision by Greek authorities to relax their ban on any commercial use of ancient sites. Authorities vetted the script for historical accuracy and convened a panel of senior archaeologists to give final approval. The director, Donald Petrie, denied suggestions the script was watered down to secure access, saying restrictions to protect monuments were obvious. "We don't bring in fake Roman columns," he said, smiling.
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Before post time, celebrity guests Chloe Sevigny, Nia Vardalos, Bridget Fonda, Bill Paxton and Jane Kaczmarek galloped past the media into the theater, while Faye Dunaway pranced actor son Liam O'Neill down the carpet. Taking note of Maguire's lean build, Dunaway gushed, "I never pictured Tobey as a jockey, but I just saw his body and that boy's worked hard." Whoaaa, girl.
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That Nia Vardalos had a one woman show which told the story of her own family. Rita Wilson, who has a Greek mother, saw the show and persuaded her husband, Tom Hanks to make a movie of it. Wilson recognized how authentic the storyline was.
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The indie movie, written by Vardalos, follows a commitment-phobic woman who closely adheres to a set of dating rules but finds them put to the test when she falls for a Brit who dumps her. “He’s mischievous and dirty on the phone, so he’s a joy to write for,” Vardalos said about Purefoy. “The part was written for an American guy in mind, but I’m now revamping the script to make it about a British guy who doesn’t understand the ways of American women.”
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