Alexandros Logothetis

Acting

Alexandros Logothetis

Born 1970-12-01 · Athens, Greece

Alexandros Logothetis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Λογοθέτης) (born 1970) is a Greek stage, film and television actor known for his roles in the Greek television series To Nisi (The Island), and the British TV mini-series Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders. Alexandros Logothetis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1970. His father was the actor Ilias Logothetis (1939 – 2024), and his mother is a writer, Efthychia Kalliteraki. He was brought up by his mother, after his parents divorced when he was three years old. Logothetis studied at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School, graduating in 1991. He later studied at the Arts Educational Schools, London, where he graduated with an MA in acting in 1998. Logothetis has had major roles in Greek television shows including the 2010 series To Nisi (Greek: Το Νησί; English: The Island), which was based on the novel The Island by Victoria Hislop. In 2003, Logothetis was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Greek State Film Awards for his role in the 2003 film Gamilia narki. Logothetis also features in the 2007 - 2008 television series The 10. Logothetis has starred in many Greek films, most recently The Promotion (Exilixi), for which Logothetis won a jury award for Best Performance at the San Francisco Greek Film Festival in 2024. From 2021 to 2024 Logothetis had roles in several English-language TV mini-series. The first was Magpie Murders, based on a novel by Anthony Horowitz, which was filmed in 2021 and aired on PBS and Britbox in 2022, and BBC One in 2023. The second was the 2024 mini-series Moonflower Murders, based on another Horowitz novel.

Acting credits

Monday poster
6.5

A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

Monday

2021

Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming poster
5.3

The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "

Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming

1996

Polk poster
2.3

Thessaloniki, Greece, 1948. The American journalist George Washington Polk, who works for CBS, walks into a restaurant. During his meal he discovers that he has already been murdered. A journey through the reflections of time and memory begins. The movie refers to the crucial assassination of the American journalist George Washington Polk during the Greek civil war.

Polk

2014

Business in the Balkans poster
7.0

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.

Business in the Balkans

1996

Saison Morte poster
4.0

When a series of brutal murders begins, Christos is the only person who can explain what happened. He starts narrating a story to two police officers, a story in which nobody is who they seem to be and they all switch roles and positions up until the final twist. A story about deception, following a narrative that manipulates till the very end.

Saison Morte

2021

Adults in the Room poster
6.5

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Adults in the Room

2019

At Home poster
5.7

For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple and their daughter. She’s allowed to feel like part of the family. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job. Yet she shows no external sign of how these two traumatic events have affected her.

At Home

2014

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand poster
7.0

Two men who live in modern day Athens decide to start the quest for Laura Durand, a porn star of the 90's who has disappeared mysteriously several years ago.

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand

2019

Skeleton Tree poster
NR

A man, a decision, a half-cooked meal, and the realisation that, eventually, everything can be oddly insignificant and quite funny.

Skeleton Tree

2024

Gamilia Narki poster
3.4

Thomas and Lily, a couple in their mid-thirties with a child, are in the seventh "difficult" year of their marriage. The sudden departure of their household help sets off a chain of explosive situations. Lily refuses to take care of their child and their home. Thomas hires Irina, a 23 year-old foreign hooker, to help out.

Gamilia Narki

2003

Enastros tholos poster
9.0

A free adaptation of the story of Oedipus. Antigone accompanies her father on a journey outside the borders of Greece. There she finds work with a group of wandering artists. Antigone tells the audience, with a magic lantern, the story of Oedipus. Ismene comes to Greece and begs Antigone to return, because Eteocles and Polynices are at odds. Antigone returns and finds her brothers killed. The wandering artists bring Oedipus back to Greece

Enastros tholos

Without Milk poster
NR

An aspiring screenwriter and a seasoned producer try to work out problems regarding their upcoming collaboration. One of the two will have to compromise, adding milk to his coffee.

Without Milk

2015

Σε γνωρίζω από την όψη - 200 χρόνια Ελλάδα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σε γνωρίζω από την όψη - 200 χρόνια Ελλάδα

2021

From the Earth to the Moon poster
5.0

In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.

From the Earth to the Moon

2013

No artwork available
NR

The 22-year Siege of Candia unfolds through the struggles of the besieged and the attackers, the failed Venetian efforts, and an unfulfilled love. Personal testimonies bring to life the dramatic events of Crete's past, as memory and time collide nearly four centuries later.

The Siege of Candia: Mama Creta

2025

Amerika Square poster
5.9

Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.

Amerika Square

2016

Chariton's Choir poster
5.7

Chariton Ulianov has one great love: Life! That particular love affair however does not hamper him in his pursuit of enjoyment of her simpler pleasures. For him every woman is beautiful, every wine is superior when shared with good company and every situation an opportunity for good humor. His position as School Master in a small provincial town on the island of Corfu gives him the opportunity to disseminate his own unique philosophy especially to the students that participate in his greatest passion: the choir.

Chariton's Choir

2005

The Promotion poster
5.5

2012. Nikos lives in Athens. He is a film director who teaches film direction at the University of Thessaloniki. Today he will ask his father, Mr. Andrikos, to accompany him to the swearing-in ceremony for his promotion to the higher rank at the University - a father-son train journey, with time running backward.

The Promotion

2023

Alter Ego poster
4.7

Alter Ego: a successful Greek rock group, with a potential that surpasses the limits of the local music industry and hundreds of thousands of fans getting wild at every concert and public appearance of theirs. Fame, success, money, in a world of glamor and vanity. But what's hidden behind the mirror? How do the members of Alter Ego experience their success, their day to day life, their dreams?

Alter Ego

2007

Underground poster
NR

The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness. The film seems to be talking about death, yet it's doing the exact opposite.

Underground

2024

Wild Duck poster
4.7

“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear his head and look at himself under a different light.

Wild Duck

2013

No artwork available
6.0

Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, is trapped every night in the same obsessive nightmare. She dreams she turns into a tree. While stuck to a lonely everyday routine she realises that her nightmare goes beyond the imaginary and gradually infiltrates her life.

Midnight Skin

2023

The Happy Life poster
3.0

A cartoonist. His wife. His characters.

The Happy Life

2009

The Republic poster
NR

A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother.

The Republic

2015