Background
Giannopoulos was born in Melbourne, Australia, the first-born son of Greek immigrant parents. He grew up in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy & Richmond and attended Abbotsford Primary School and Richmond High School.
Giannopoulos was born in Melbourne, Australia, the first-born son of Greek immigrant parents. He grew up in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy & Richmond and attended Abbotsford Primary School and Richmond High School.
He left Rusden halfway through his course when he auditioned and was accepted into the Drama School at the Victorian College of the Arts, from where he eventually graduated.
He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris, the television sitcom Acropolis Now and the film The Wog Boy and has been described as "Australia"s leading exponent of "wog" humour". In 1981 he was accepted into the Drama course at Rusden State College where he also was a student in Media Studies. Giannopoulos has also made appearances at the Melbourne Festival, as well as co-authored books In 1990-1991, he toured Australia to full house audiences for eight months as the star of the stage production of Acropolis Now Live Onstage, which he co-produced.
Acting In 1990, Giannopoulos was the director and star of the play The Heartbreak Kid with which he toured Australia.
In 1991 he played Danny Zuko in the David Atkins production of the musical Grease at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney.