Stratos Tzortzoglou was born in Athens in 1965.

He studied in Karolos Koun's Art Theater school.

He worked in theater with many directors, such as Karolos Koun, Minos Volanakis, Jules Dassin, Spyros Evangelatos and Roula Pateraki and in cinema with Theodoros Angelopoulos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Panayotopoulos.

In 1990, he worked with Catherine Deneuve in "365 Days of Birth". Internationally, in 1994 he worked with Eva Bergman in the film "One Love and the Other", co-starring with Lena Endre.

In 2004, he worked with Michel Favart in the film "Le Dernier Monsieur des Balcans". In 2004, he played Leah Vitall's "Roast Beef" in Riveralde Studio in Hammersmith in London, co-starring with Sarah Douglas.

He has received 2 awards. 1) National award of the best male actor for the film "Up, Down and Sideways" by Michael Cacoyannis, in which he was co-starring with Irene Papas. 2) Second award of the best male actor in Stars de Demain in Geneve in 1989 for the film "Landscape in the Mist" by Theodoros Angelopoulos.

Now he plays in the National Theater of Northern Greece, where he is for three seasons now, the role of Arts in the "Game of Chess" by A. Doriadis, in the Small Theater of Moni Lazariston in Thessaloniki.

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