Nico Lathouris

Australian actor

Nico Lathouris is an Australian-born actor and writer of Greek descent.

Life and career

Lathouris has worked on the television series Police Rescue. He appeared in George Miller's film Mad Max (1979) as a car mechanic. He also ran film and drama workshops for the Australian Film Commission.

Lathouris is best known for the role of George Poulos in Heartbreak High, as well as being the series drama coach responsible for developing the skills of the younger actors and actresses who starred in the series. He helped to develop realistic characters from a whole variety of ethnic backgrounds. The series marked a big shift in the way that life in Australia is represented in TV drama. In the past, many shows had not reflected all the different cultures which exist side-by-side in Australia's big cities, and Heartbreak High broke the mould by acknowledging and celebrating the country's cultural mix.

Lathouris is co-screenwriter (alongside George Miller) of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).

Selected filmography

Journey Among Women (1977) - Soldier
Mad Max (1979) - Grease Rat
Desolation Angels (1982) - Nightman
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) - Arnold
The Young Wife (1984, TV Movie) - Yannis
Wrong World (1985) - Rangott
Rikky and Pete (1988) - Con Ionides
Georgia (1988) - Bystander #2
Belinda (1988) - Benny Rose
Against the Innocent (1989) - Tim McKenzie
Father (1990) - Amos
Death in Brunswick (1990) - Mustafa
Heaven Tonight (1990) - Hot dog man
Jigsaw (1990) - Ed Minter
The Heartbreak Kid (1993) - George
Gino (1994) - Rocco Petri
What I Have Written (1996) - Claude Murnane
Serenades (2001) - Mullah Jalal-Shah
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Writer)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, Writer)

External links

Nico Lathouris at IMDb

Nebula Award for Best Script/Ray Bradbury Award

Nebula Award
for Best Script

Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973)
Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974)
Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975)
Star Wars – George Lucas (1977)
The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
Galaxy Quest – David Howard and Robert Gordon (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2004)
Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005)
Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007)
WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter (2008)