Aineias Tsamatis (Greek: Αινείας Τσαμάτης) was born in Elbasan, Albania, on November 16, 1984. He graduated from the Modern Music School of Athens (MMS) in 2007 and from Nellie Karra’s Higher School of Dramatic Art ARCHI in 2011. He acts, writes, and directs for cinema and the theater. In 2021, he directed his first short film, “The Crossing,” together with Katerina Mavrogeorgi. In the theater, he has collaborated as an actor with Dimitris Karantzas (“The Persians,” “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “Three Sisters,” “Nephele,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Waves,” “Sladek”), Aris Biniaris (“Wake Up, Vassili”), Ektoras Lygizos (“Hamlet”), Lena Kitsopoulou (“Blood Wedding”), Argyro Chioti (“The Libation Bearers”), Nikita Milivojević’s (“Lucrezia Borgia”), Kostantin Bokomolov (“Demons”), Pantelis Dentakis (“Dear Herbert,” “Penthesilea”) Pantelis Flatsousis (“National Fashion Show”), Natasha Triantafylli (“Waiting for Godot,” “Brothers Karamazov”), Marianna Calbari (“The Island of Slaves”), Efi Gousi (“Cleansed”), Yiannis Skourletis (“STELLA Travel – The Recited Land”), and Takis Tzamarias (“Our Little Town”). In cinema, he has collaborated with Stelios Kammitsis (“Jerks”), Constantina Voulgaris (“A.C.A.B. All Cats Are Brilliant”), Yorgos Zois (“Interruption”), Pantelis Voulgaris (“Little England,” “The Last Note”), Stavros Tsiolis (“Women Who Passed My Way”), Sepideh Farsi (“I Will Cross Tomorrow”), Nicholas Dimitropoulos (“Echoes of the Past”), Thanos Anastopoulos (“Travelling Ghosts”), and Mariano Pensotti (“The Audience”). In television, he has participated in the series “Dark Sea,” “Postcards,” “One Νight in August.”
