Nia Vardalos

Actress Nia Vardalos has said her adopted daughter is the "triumph" of her life as she battled for 10 years to have a baby. Nia, 46, is best-known for her role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and she became a mum last year when she adopted a three-year-old girl, whose name she is keeping private. The actress and her husband Ian Gomez had tried for a decade to be parents and had unsuccessful attempts at surrogacy as well as fertility drugs. She said: "It was a big secret I was keeping during all of the success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. "I ... Read Full Story

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The title of her new movie is " My Life in Ruins " but Nia Vardalos who shot to fame in the 2002 autobiographical hit " My Big Fat Greek Wedding " couldn't be happier. The actress returns to the Greek theme in her first big screen outing in five years, playing a tour guide who goes to Athens to regain her mojo -- or kefi as the Greeks call it. The romantic comedy also stars Richard Dreyfuss as a witty widower in the tour group from hell discovering Greece 's ancient treasures. It opens in U.S. theaters on ... Read Full Story

The movie My Life in Ruins , the romantic comedy. synopsis: A Greek tour guide named Georgia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos) attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for "mojo") by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land in this sun-soaked comedy from director Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process. Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, ... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The title of her new movie is "My Life in Ruins" but Nia Vardalos who shot to fame in the 2002 autobiographical hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" couldn't be happier. The actress returns to the Greek theme in her first big screen outing in five years, playing a tour guide who goes to Athens to regain her mojo -- or kefi as the Greeks call it. The romantic comedy also stars Richard Dreyfuss as a witty widower in the tour group from hell discovering Greece's ancient treasures. It opens in U.S. theaters on June 5. In reality, Vardalos, 46, ... Read Full Story

Seven years after being catapulted to fame and fortune with her hit comedy "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", Nia Vardalos makes a long-awaited return to the big screen this month with another film that takes the Canadian-born actress back to her ancestral roots. Vardalos, 46, became an overnight success in 2002, when the romantic comedy she wrote and starred in went on to become a monster hit, earning more than 350 million dollars worldwide after being made for only five million dollars. The success of the film -- which also earned Vardalos a best original screenplay nomination at the Oscars -- allowed Vardalos to ... Read Full Story