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- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Widely regarded as one of the best Greek stage and screen actors of his generation, Michalis Tamboukas is a renowned "chameleon" of remarkable versatility in transformations both outside and inside, expressed through his unique interpretations in a wide range of demanding roles. His excellent work as a multifarious theatre artist from a young age includes brilliant performances in productions of plays such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust - Part I" (1993), Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (1994), William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1996), and Timberlake Wertenbaker's "The Love of the Nightingale" (1998) along with exquisite film and TV roles. Together with his prolific work as playwright and stage director in his multi-talented qualities, his following course in inspired incarnations of subtle profoundness, charisma, intelligence, sensation and insights also includes, among others, his notable performances of memorable roles such as in films by Nikos Panayotopoulos like I kori tou Rembrandt (2015), his staggering Jerry in The Zoo Story (2016), an enjoyable Father Robert - Cornelius in Jack or Submission (2018) and the hilarious Argan in The Imaginary Invalid (2021).
- IMDb mini biography by: Markos
- Greek is his native language. Fluent in English, also speaks Italian and French, and can do a wide variety of accents.
- Also a writer of excellent texts including articles, points of view and reviews on theatre and cinema as well as issues regarding literature, art and disability published in many leading newspapers and other important editions of Internet Press in Greece. He often signs his film, stage and TV reviews as 'Michalis D. Tamboukas'.
- The great Greek director Minos Volanakis considered his performance as Nils Krogstad to be the best one of the role he had ever seen, in the production of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" directed by Michalis Papamichalis at the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Veroia (or 'Veria'), Greece in 1994, when Michalis Tamboukas was 22.
- Considers Theodoros Andriakopoulos and Tamilla Koulieva as his most significant acting teachers at Mary Voyatzi-Tranga's School of Drama, where he studied acting.
- In 2009, he directed the short film Giant Footsteps (2009), which includes a portrait of Eirini Mavromataki, a multi-talented artist of stage and screen, whose physiology is similar to one of dwarfism due to Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bone Disease). The film also contains a respective presentation of Dimos Gigantakis' multifarious activities, with his narration dubbed by Michalis Tamboukas (uncredited) due to technical reasons. Michalis Tamboukas dedicated the film to Tom Shakespeare and it was first screened in 2009 at the 3rd International Festival Documentary and Disability-Emotion Pictures in Athens, Greece.
- [on Antonis Vlisidis as Galileo Galilei in the docudramas Galileo: Fighting in the Dawn of Modern Science (2013) and Newton: The Force of God (2016)] Together with his impressive resemblance to the great scientist, first of all he disposed the appropriate spiritual culture and nobility, offering thus a great interpretation and generally all the bests to an excellent collaboration.
- [from interview in ThePressProject concerning the production of Sophocles's "Antigone" by THEAMA (July 2018)] I can't perceive disability as a concept that separates people. Disability is a part of our life, (a part) of human existence. In essence, we are all born disabled. From then on, the shaping of each person varies, such as e.g. respectively each physiology and every way of expression.
- [on dedicating his film "Giant Footsteps" to Tom Shakespeare, speaking about it in the TV series Ekti aisthisi (2006)] As I contacted him before the film shootings, Tom Shakespeare has been of the first people who had been interested about the film. Consequently, to dedicate the film to this great man, was the least I could do.
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