List of My Big Fat Greek Wedding characters

The following is a list of characters featured in the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the 2003 TV series, and its 2016 sequel. Main and minor characters are included.

Portokalos/Miller family

Fotoula 'Toula' Portokalos-Miller

Fotoula 'Toula' Portokalos-Miller, known as Nia Miller in the TV show, is the main protagonist of the franchise and played by Nia Vardalos. She works in the family restaurant as a hostess. Toula is thirty-years-old, single, clumsy, shy and oppressed by her large Greek family. Their desire for Toula's life consists of marriage to a Greek man and bearing children. Toula eventually starts to pay more attention to her appearance and takes computer classes. She falls in love with Ian Miller and accepts his marriage proposal. Her family strongly objects to his non-Greek background, and the story centers around the couple and their parents coming to terms with the union.

Ian Miller

Ian Miller, played by John Corbett, also known as Thomas Miller in the TV show, is Toula's love interest. He is an English literature teacher in the first film. In the film's sequel, he is a school principal. He falls in love with Toula and asks her to marry him. Before he meets Toula, he laments that the girls he meets are "all the same" and that his life is boring. He sees Toula as different and finds her Greek heritage exciting. Ian tries to convince Toula's family to accept the marriage in every way. He's even baptised in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Maria Portokalos

Maria Portokalos, played by Lainie Kazan, is Toula's mother. Maria helps run Gus's restaurant. She's loving and traditional, but helps her daughter gain independence by convincing Toula's father Gus to let her take a university computer course and start working at her aunt's travel agency. She accepts Ian more quickly than her husband and tries to convince her husband to change his mind about the young couple.

Kostas 'Gus' Portokalos

Kostas 'Gus' Portokalos, played by Michael Constantine, is Toula's father. He's the owner of the family's 'Dancing Zorba' Greek restaurant in Chicago. Gus strongly identifies with his Greek tradition. According to Toula, Gus is guided by two basic beliefs: Greeks should educate non-Greeks about being Greek, and every ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy can be cured with Windex. He's sad because Toula is "old" and still single, while her sister is married and has four kids. At first, he doesn't approve of Toula and Ian's relationship because Ian is not Greek. To interfere with her relationship, he tries to set Toula up with other Greek men. Ian eventually earns his trust.

Aunt Voula

Aunt Voula, played by Andrea Martin, is Maria's sister. She's married to Taki, and they have a daughter, Nikki, and a son, Angelo. Aunt Voula owns a travel agency and a dry cleaner's shop with Taki in Chicago. She's a meddles in family situations and overshares her strange health problems with strangers.

Nick Portokalos

Nick "Niko" Portokalos, played by Louis Mandylor, is Toula's younger brother. He works as a cook in the family restaurant, but his true passions are painting and art. He accepts Ian from the beginning of the relationship. The two become friends, although he and his cousin Angelo sometimes play pranks on Ian. In the sequel, he's seen married to Ilaria, and they have four sons, including one named Kostas after his grandfather.

Cousin Nikki

Nikki is Voula and Taki's daughter and is married to a man named Dimo. She often quarrels with her brother Angelo and she works in her parents' travel agency. Nikki is very vain and is a meddler just like her mother. Gus chooses her as Ian's godmother for his baptism. She is played by Gia Carides.

Uncle Taki

Uncle Taki is Voula's husband. He's a loving father and very set in tradition just like the others members of the family. He's also Gus' best friend (in addition to being his brother-in-law). He owns a dry cleaners in which he and his children run. He is played by Gerry Mendicino.

Cousin Angelo

Angelo is Voula and Taki's son. He works in his parents dry cleaning store and is one of the cousins who has never been married throughout the franchise (even though he seems to have a girlfriend in the first movie). He is a bit of a mama's boy. It is revealed in the sequel that Angelo is gay and has a romantic partner named Patrick who mostly kept from his family until the end of the movie. He is played by Joey Fatone.

Mana Yiayia

Mana Yiayia is Gus' mother, who decided to bring her to US from Greece many years before. She needed time to understand that the war between Greeks and Turks (which she confused with the Americans at first). She's really strange (in facts she rarely talks with others) but very wise too. She mellows out in the sequel. She is played by Bess Meisler.

Athena Portkalos

Athena Portokalos is Toula's older sister. She's shown as the "perfect sister" by Toula. She's married to Yianni (played by Peter Thauros) and they have four sons in the first movie (Kosta, Isaac, Foti and one unnamed baby). During the ending sequence Athena can be seen to be pregnant again. In the second movie she has two sons (the son from her pregnancy in the previous movie's ending sequence and one other son born more recently). One of them named Aristotle. She is played by Stavroula Logothettis.

Rodney Miller

Rodney is Ian's father. He is a lawyer who is stunned the first time he meets Toula's family. He once had a Guatemalan secretary. He is played by Bruce Gray.

Harriet Miller

Harriet is Ian's mother and Rodney's wife. She gets very overwhelmed by the cultural differences between them and Toula's family at a large family party. On the invitations, Toula's parents mistakenly refer to her as Harry.

Mrs. White

Mrs. White is a neighbor to the Portokalos family who is annoyed by their antics.

Paris Miller

Paris is Toula and Ian's daughter. She was born not long after her parents were married. She is shown a few years later complaining about going to Greek school, as many Greek-American kids do. In the sequel, she is now in high school, the same one where Ian is the principal and Toula frequently volunteers. She goes to the prom with a boy named Bennett who surprisingly has also some Greek ancestry. She ends up going to New York University after high school.

Panos Portakalos

Panos is Kosta's brother who lives in Greece.

Other characters

Mike

Mike is Ian's best friend who is a fellow teacher at the same school. He doesn't enjoy teaching as much as Ian does, and also enjoys giving his students pop quizzes. He marries one of Toula's cousins. In the sequel he has since changed careers and is now a police officer. He arranges for his fellow officers to drive everyone to the wedding in cop cars, and he drives Maria and Toula.

Sources

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding. IFC Films. April 19, 2002.
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Universal Pictures. March 25, 2016.

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