 He has won two Hellenic Film Academy Awards for his roles in the films "Plato's Academy" and "Unfair World".He also won the best actor award in San Sebastián International Film Festival for his role in "Unfair World" He became popular to wider audience from the successful television series "Kai oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psyhi", aired in period 1997-2000.In 1969 he entered the financial and political department of the law school of the university of Thessaloniki but abandoned his studies in 1971.