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Anna Rezan (Greek: Άννα Ρεζάν; born Anna Hannah Rezan Kritseli, Greek: Άννα Χάνα Ρεζαν Κριτσέλη; 12 December 1992) is a Greek actress, fashion model, musician, and filmmaker. Rezan began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and television series, most notably in the 2010 comedy film Show Bitch which premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.[4][5]

Anna Rezan
Άννα Χάνα Ρεζαν Κριτσέλη
Rezan in 2015
Born
Hannah Rezan Kritseli[1]

(1992-12-12) 12 December 1992 (age 29)[2]
Athens, Greece
Other namesAnna the Kid, LadyLight, ARK
OccupationActress, filmmaker, singer, fashion model[3]
Years active2003–present

Her first international feature film role was in La Commedia di Amos Poe, a new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy by Amos Poe that premiered in the 2010 Venice Film Festival and starred Roberto Benigni.[4][6][7] She made her catwalk debut as a high fashion model at New York Fashion Week in 2014.[8][4] Her debut song, "Let There Be Rain" was released internationally in 2011 and in 2016, "Let There be Love" was released internationally by Universal Music Group.[7][9][10] In 2017, she co-starred in Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road by Asteris Koutoulas. The film premiered at the Hof International Film Festival.[11] Rezan's directorial debut, My People , is a historical documentary film, co-produced with Academy Award winners Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson. It premiered in 2022 in Los Angeles to rave reviews.[10][12][1][3][13]


Early life


She was born in Athens, Greece to Fotis Rezan Kritseli and Eva Matilda Kalamara, both of whom are interested in dramatic arts. Her father, who is of Izmirian, Cretan and Peloponnesian descent, is a federal judge who had aspirations to be a director; her mother, a Greek-Jewish attorney of Spanish and Polish descent, studied at Karolos Koun's School of Dramatic Arts before going to law school.[2] Her maternal great-grandmother did not survived Auschwitz during World War II.[8][14][13] Rezan has an older brother, Leon,[4] and is paternally related to Constantine P Cavafy.[citation needed] Her father died in August 2007.[15]

Rezan was interested in the arts from an early age and decided to be an actress after watching Greek movies, musicals, Disney films, and comedies.[5][4] She started performing at age 11 in a school play[5] and later performed with Stagecoach Productions. She began writing lyrics at age 9[citation needed] and started electric guitar lessons at 17.[5] At age 11, she starred in a theatrical show performing Oops!... I Did It Again while on summer holiday with her family.[4][16] The following year, she starred in The Hall of Fame of the Moon, which premiered at the Greek National Opera and was produced by Cyprus' Ministry of Culture. Greece's Minister of Education attended the performance.[16] She took classes at New York Film Academy and enrolled at Panteion University to study journalism in late 2009.[4][14][2] She also took acting courses at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles,[citation needed] where she lived part-time.[14] As a teenager, her articles, which centered on love, therapy, films, and musicians such as David Bowie, Nick Cave, and The Cure, were published in indie magazines.[which?][citation needed]


Career


Rezan walking the runway at NYFW
Rezan walking the runway at NYFW

Acting and directing


In 2005, Rezan made her first appearance on Greek television in Η Νταντά, the Greek adaptation of The Nanny, and had minor parts in several TV series and films.[17] She worked as a production runner on the set of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; performed at the DJ set of Armin van Buuren in Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos;[17][4] and represented Greece in the Miss European Union pageant in 2008.[2][18] That year, she also appeared as Svetlana in the Greek comedy The Red Room, where she spoke Russian; starred in a TV adaption of Farewell Anatolia as Artemitsa; and performed in the rock opera The 300 Spartans on their world tour.[19][4] She spent time in London in 2009 and moved briefly to New York City before resettling in Los Angeles. She continued working in Greece on projects such as the film Katharsi and as a guest star on Lola.[14] She co-produced and co-starred in the romantic comedy Love At First Sight, a short film by Patricia di Salvo that was selected at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[4][19] She also spent time in London modeling Couture fashion from Rira Sugawara for Vogue Italia and has walked in London Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week.[4][19][20]

She starred as Hrysa, a teenage rock singer who turns into a rock star, in Nikos Zervo's Show Bitch in 2010.[4] It premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.[17][8] From there, she starred in a number of TV shows and films including Ever Been to the Moon?,[21] and appeared in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Esquire.[2][16] In 2015, she filmed Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road, a docu-fiction film by Asteris Koutoulas about composer Mikis Theodorakis.[10][22][11][23] The film premiered at the Hof International Film Festival in 2017 and was released in theaters in 2018. Mikis Theodorakis and George Dalaras praised her performance. In 2016, she hosted the first annual Hellas Filmbox festival awards ceremony in Berlin, the city's first-ever Greek film festival.[24][25][26][27] The following year, she portrayed supermodel Kate Mosscowitz in Victoria Larimore's Open House.[10]

In 2019, Rezan wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Beauty Before Age, an English-language short comedy film. In 2022, she began the production of The Re Education Camp, a short documentary focusing on the Makronisos concentration camp used during the Greek Civil War and the Greek junta.[18] My People, which she wrote, directed, produced, and narrated, is a feature-length documentary about Jews in Greece & the Greek Resistance movement during World War II.[12][1][8][28] The film premiered in Los Angeles in 2022 at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. In October 2022,it had it's New York city premiere where it won the Audience Award for Best Film. [29] [30] In November 2022 Rezan was the head of Jury committee for the "Bridges" Peloponnese International Film Festival that was held in Loutraki, Greece. [31]


Music


Rezan released her first song, "Let There Be Rain" from the film Show Bitch, in 2011 and co-produced the music video in Brooklyn, New York City.[7][4] The track was produced at Equinox Studios in Luxembourg and aired for the first time in the United States on the CBS radio show Zodiac Divas in 2013.[32][2][33] She covered the song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles in a 2015 public service announcement directed by Amos Poe.[34][22] In 2016, she signed with Minos EMI and Universal Music Group and released "Let There Be Love."[35] "My Summer Night," a Latin pop ballad duet with Barbara Sassari, came out in 2017,[35] as did her cover of Mikis Theodorakis' "The Honeymoon Song" in the style of the Beatles. The music video was released ahead of the film Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road. She also performed "Day in May" in German and "The Bells Will Ring" in Greek and English during the film.[34] In 2020, she recorded a Greek version of "My Summer Night" called "San Nychta Kalokairini" and a week after she released a cover of the 1970s Greek folk song "Kapoios Giortazi" with Barbara Sassari.[11][36][37]


Other interests and ventures


Rezan at Cuban Embassy in Athens (2020)
Rezan at Cuban Embassy in Athens (2020)

In 2013, Rezan was a special guest at the fourth J'adore la mode Gala charity fashion show in Philadelphia benefitting the organization Evoluer House, which empowers young women through applicable skill-building programs.[2][38][39] She has been a patron of Models Against Addiction, an organization dedicated to ending the stigma of addiction, since 2013.[34][2][40] Also in 2013, she appeared in Constantinos Isaias' public service announcement "We Love Cyprus" and her 2015 cover of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" was part of a PSA to raise awareness about breast cancer.[41][40][22] In 2020, she was a guest lecturer at the Athens School of Fine Arts to discuss "Beauty... shall reunite with Art" and to the Henry Reeve Brigade at the Cuban Embassy in Athens to support their initiative to nominate Cuban doctors of Cuban medical internationalism for a Nobel Peace Prize.[42][43][44]


Personal life


Rezan is largely private about her personal life[45] but has made a concerted effort to be open about her struggles with depression, panic attacks, and anxiety and her recovery journey. She has spoken about different types of therapy and self-healing in the hope that it would inspire others to seek help.[34][46] She is also a reiki therapist.[citation needed] In 2011, she shared her life mottos: "love brings love" and "love is the greatest power of all as the youngest member of the board of MMA Foundation in NYC "[1][2] She also supports World Wildlife Foundation, and Action Aid and is the founder of the Love Brings Love organization.[2][34]

Tabloids have been interested in Rezan's romantic life since her teenage years when she dated Panos Mouzourakis.[47] In 2009, she was thought to have dated The Durrells actor Alexis Georgoulis;[48] in 2010, her Show Bitch co-star Nassos Papargyropoulos;[49] and in 2011, Panagiotis Bougiouris.[50][45] In 2014, she denied rumors that she and Alexander Payne had a romantic relationship.[51] but she stated that he is a friend that she admires.[52]


Filmography



Film


YearFilmActor (+ Role)DirectorProducerOther crewRef
2005Woman Is... a Tough PersonYoung clubber
2006EduartGirl
2007Socrates: Lost in Olympia[4][14]
2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Beautiful student (uncredited)Production runner[17]
2009Katharsi (Κάθαρση)Babe[2][7]
2010La Commedia di Amos PoeSofia[2][5][53][4]
Love at First Sight?SachaYes[2][4]
Show BitchChrysaPerformer[5]
2012Immatturi Il ViaggioThe dancer[2][16][53]
The Story of My LifeWorkaholic[54]
Greenfish420[5][7]
Ice Age: Continental Drift (Greek dub)Mammoth Katie[19]
2013Knights of LightKnight of LightYes
We Love CyprusSelf[41]
2014The Secret of the GodsPaola[55][33]
2015Ever Been to the Moon?Cinzia[2]
MadWalk by Aperol Spritz: The Fashion Music ProjectSelf
2017Pame allios (Πάμε αλλιώς)Self
2018Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis on the RoadSelfPerformer[2][10]
2020Celebrating LifeRapunzelYesYesPerformer, writer, editor, cinematographer
2021Naptorun PansiyonKatrin
2022My PeopleYesYesNarrator, Director, music supervisor, writer, editor, additional cinematography, visual effects artist, sound designer[12][1][8]
End Flux[18]
Post-productionThe Re Education CampYesProducer, Still photographer[18]
FilmingBeauty Before AgeTinaYesYesWriter, creative director
Pre-ProductionAfrican MystiqueActress

TV series


YearSeriesRoleNotesRef
2003Omorfos kosmos to proi (Όμορφος κόσμος το πρωί)Self
2005I dada (Η Νταντά)Ballet dancerGreek version of The Nanny; 2 episodes[17]
2007Zoi xana (Ζωή ξανά)Joy1 episode
An ypirhes tha se horiza (Αν υπήρχες θα σε χώριζα)Stella1 episode
Ta koritsia tou baba (Τα κορίτσια του βαβα)Supermodel2 episodes
Eythismenoi Mazi (Ευτυχισμένοι μαζί)Suzanna2 episodes
2008Yungermann (Γιούγκερμαν)Zizi4 episodes[19]
Ihni (Ίχνη)Agni2 episodes
Latremenoi mou geitones (Λατρεμένοι μου γείτονες)Dancer1 episode
Matomena homata (Ματωμένα χώματα)Artemitsa4 episodes[4][19]
To kokkino domatio (Το κόκκινο δωμάτιο)Svetlana2 episodes
Loufa kai Paralagi: I seira (Λούφα και Παραλλαγή)Marianne1 episode
Dady's GirlsSupermodel
2009Lola (Λoλα)Nadea12 episodes
Litsa.com (ΛΙΤΣΑ.COM)Athina1 episode
Sex Shop TVBella
2010I zoi tis allis (Η Ζωή της Άλλης)Sonia11 episodes[17][19]
2012Rantevou gia sinemaSelf
2015The Good WifeYoung lawyer (uncredited)1 episode[1]
2017Open HouseKate Mosscowitz[10]
2020Emily in ParisInfluencer (uncredited)

Stage


YearTitleRoleDirectorRef
2003The Hall of Fame of the MoonQueen Night[16]
2007AssemblywomenYoung girl
2009The 300 Spartans on Stage (The Rock Opera)Aphrodite[19][4]
2021Peace (play)Hermes[56]

Discography


YearTitleTypeLabelMusic videoMusic video notesNotesRef
2011"Let There Be Rain"SingleEquinox Records, Moda RecordsYesDirected by Aksel StasnyShow Bitch Film Original Soundtrack[7][4][32]
2015"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"CoverYesRole: The boy, the girlPSA by Amos Poe[22]
2016"Let There Be Love"SingleUniversal Music Group and Minos EMIYesDirected by Antreas Stavrinides[9]
2017"My Summer Night"
(feat. Barbara Sassari)		SingleUniversal Music Group and Minos EMIYesDirected by Christos Daskalothanasis[35]
"The Honeymoon Song"Cover (The Beatles version)YesDirected by Asteris KoutoulasFrom Asteris Koutoulas' Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road[34]
2018"The Bells Will Ring"[34]
"Day in May"[34]
2020"Like a Summer Night"
(feat. Barbara Sassari)		SingleUniversal Music Group and Minos EMIYesDirector, producer, singer; role: Mermaid[18]
"Celebrating Life"
(feat. Barbara Sassari)		SingleUniversal Music Group and Minos EMIYesDirector, producer, singer
2022"Everything I Say To You" (Oti Sou Leo)Music video appearanceYesSong by Vassilis Dimas[57]

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