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Gia Carides
Highest Rated: 100% Bliss (1985)
Lowest Rated: 14% Year One (2009)
Birthday: Jun 7, 1964
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Widely acknowledged as one of Australia's most accomplished young actors, Gia Carides has has a career that skyrocketed following her turn as the loud and pushy Liz in Baz Luhrmann's hit movie "Strictly Ballroom" (1992). Though blonde for "Ballroom," this attractive, smokey-voiced brunette began as an ingenue in the genre pic "Midnight Spares" (1982) and appeared in the chronicle of the champion Australian racehorse "Phar Lap" (1983), credited as Georgia Carr. She performed sex acts on her coke-dealer brother in exchange for drugs in "Bliss" (1985) and was convincing as a rookie cop in "Backlash" (1986). For the latter, she and co-star Trevor Darling turned to improvisation to fully realize their parts, contributing so much in the process that they both earned screenwriting credits.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31% |
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | Nikki (Character) | $28.1M | 2023 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | Loren & Rose | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 82% |
|
Back to the Outback |
Doreen / |
- | 2021 |
| 67% |
|
Penguin Bloom | Megan (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Only Know So Much | Trudy (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 28% |
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | Nikki (Character) | $59.6M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
|
This Isn't Funny | Gillian Jones (Character) | $690 | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Annie and the Gypsy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 74% |
|
Burning Man | Carol (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 14% |
|
Year One | Queen (Character) | $43.3M | 2009 |
| 32% |
|
Stick It | Alice (Character) | $26.9M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exposed | Jade Blake (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 76% |
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Cousin Nikki (Character) | $241.4M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thank Heaven | Cybil (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 39% |
|
Maze | Julianne (Character) | $26.9K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave | Sandy (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Secret Affair | Mimi (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 53% |
|
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Robin Spitz Swallows (Character) | $206.0M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Letters From a Killer | Lita (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 80% |
|
Primary Colors | Cashmere McLeod (Character) | $39.0M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Firehouse | Charlotte Brooks (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Lifebreath | Gale Pullman (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Devil's Child | Eva (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 80% |
|
Brilliant Lies | Susy Connor (Character) | $6.1K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cottonwood | Kathy (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space | Vesper, Vox's High Priestess (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 27% |
|
Bad Company | Julie Ames (Character) | $3.7M | 1994 |
| 33% |
|
Lucky Break | Sophie (Character) | $147.0K | 1994 |
| 88% |
|
Strictly Ballroom | Liz Holt (Character) | $9.1M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Greenkeeping | Gina (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl Who Came Late | Wendy (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daydream Believer | Wendy (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ultraman: The Alien Invasion | Jean Echo (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Backlash | Nikki Iceton (Character) | $6.4K | 1986 |
| 100% |
|
Bliss | Lucy Joy (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midnite Spares | Ruth (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 88% |
|
Phar Lap | Emma (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Austin | Mel Hogan (Character) | 2024 |
| 64% | 52% | Filthy Rich | Veronica (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| 89% | 88% | The Quest | Lenore Jones (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 94% | 83% | Twin Peaks: The Return | Hannah (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 89% | 89% | Big Little Lies | Melissa (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 4% | No Score Yet | We Are Men | Frank's Ex-Wife (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East of Everything | Unknown (Character) | 2008-2009 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Without a Trace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | My Big Fat Greek Life | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Suzanne Alner (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Rescue | Helena Angelopoulos (Character) | 1992 |