In the same year when she graduated from high school she was hired after an audition and appeared for the first time as an actress in the play “PLUTUS” by Aristophanes with the LAIKO Theatre of Piraeus , where she played the role of Hermes as well as in children’s scenes with the performances “Robin Hood”, “Maya The Bee” and “Little Red Riding Hood” where she played the main roles .
She was hoping to secure her financial independence with the intention of leaving Athens to study at the School of Fine Arts in Florence.
During this time , her plans changed as she discovered that the field of acting and Theatre allowed her a degree of personal expression and was what exactly she would like to pursue as a profession.
Painting and free drawing continued to be part of her life , with undiminished intensity as another mode of expression but only as a hobby .
In
1993 she made her debut in the cinema with smaller roles in the films called “Dragon wanted” with Dimitris Piatas, “Gate 7 the great moment” by Nikos Foskolos, “The circuit of death” with Dionysis Xanthos, “I am acting as a macho man” with Sotiris Moustakas and Katerina Gioulaki
In
1984, while already working as a professional actress at the “Chatzichristos Theatre”(the actors license had been abolished by then) She decided to take exams at the “TRAGA Drama school” where she studied near great teachers such as Thanos Kotsopoulos, Mitsos Efthymiadis, Nikos Papakonstantinou and many others.
She graduated from drama school in
1987 and was already a professional actress.
At the same time as studying at the the drama school, she attended modern dance , jazz & tap dancing lessons in various colleges and later at Kiki Maniatis’s dance school , as well as private lessons of elecution and speech education with Professor Nikos Papakonstantinou (who also her teacher at the drama school) and vocal lessons in London
1984 & 1985 next to the great teacher William Pleeth (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/william-pleeth-mn0001793142/biography )
In
1984 she began her professional career from the ” Chatzichristou ” Theatre next to the famous Comedian Costas Chatzichristos & George Papazisis,Titika Stasinopoulou, Erica Broyer , Danos Lygizo, Nikos Tsoukas , Dimitra Nomikos, Sasha Kastoura, George Loukakis while at the same year 1984 she began studying in the first year of the Drama School.
Since then she began to visit London frequently ,attending performances and to procure unique theatrical fabrics that she used for her wardrobe in the theatre.
In the same year , she played her first starring role in cinema in the film “ROCKSTAR IN THE DAY AND SERVANT AT NIGHT ” , comedy next to famous actors Dinos Iliopoulos, Giannis Gionakis, Sotiris Tzevelekos, Ilias Logothetis, Costas Tsakonas, Giannis Vogiatzis Christos Callow etc.
Covers, interviews, photographs and reports in the magazines ( TV ,TILETHEATIS, QUIZ ,DOMINO,VENDETA, TELERAMA , TV CONTROL , ROMANTSO, RADIOTELEVISION, ATHINORAMA, TRUST, HELLO, OK, SOK, PENTHOUSE,DISCOMODA, KATERINA ,EIKONES IMAGES, 7 DAYS TV, ATHENIAN NIGHTS , TV PROGRAM
Interviews, photographs and reports in the newspapers: APOGEVMATINI (the evening newspaper) , ELEFTEROS TYPOS ,ETHNOS , STAR,APOGEVMATINI TIS KIRIAKIS , SUNDAY AFTERNOON ,UPDATE, GREEN NORTH , ELEFTHEROTYPIA, MESIMVRINI, AVGI, NEA, VRADINI, ELEFTEROS and ACROPOLIS
Since then she has played in the following theatres: ACROPOL, BOURNELI, ATHINAION,BRETAGNEA , BROADWAY,METROPOLITAN,CHATZICHRISTOU,VEMBO, SUPER STAR.
In
1987 she created a boutique with the distinctive title “MISS VENETI” which imported women’s clothes in Kolonaki area in the center of Athens and specifically at 36 Voukourestiou St, where she imported selected and unique clothes from Milan, London & Paris until
1995 when she sold the business.
Collaborations followed in theatre, cinema , TV, Video with: Costas Chatzichristos, Nikos Rizos, Giannis Gionakis, Dino Iliopoulos, Rena Vlachopoulou, Kostas Voutsas, Nikos Rizos, Giorgos Marinos, Haris Klyn, Dimitris Piatas, Giannis Michalopoulos , Sotiris Moustakas, Stathis Psalti, Grigoris Valtinos, Nikos Galanos ,Alekos Tzanetakos, Giannis Vouros, Costas Tsakonas, Sotiris tzeveleko, Giannis Zouganelis, Ilias Logotheti, Costas Rigopoulos, Mimi Denisi, Giorgos Marinos, Anna Panagiotopoulou, Rika Dialyna, Giannis Bezos, Vlasi Bonatso , Anna Anddianou, Giorgos Partsalakis, Spyros Papadopoulos , Dimitris Poulikakos, Giorgos Panzas, Katerina Youlaki, Sofia Vossou, Pavlos Kontogiannidis, Martha Karagianni, Giorgos Papazisis, Dimitris Kalivokas, Andreas Douzo, Christos Valavanidis, Panos Michalopoulos, Natasha Gerasimidou, Sperantza Vrana, Anna Matzourani, Dimitris Piatas, Nikos Apergi, Christos Zorba,
Stavros Xenidis and others
For two seasons and specifically
91 ‘ -92 ‘ she appeared at the Music Hall “Fantasia” in L. Poseidonos (opposite Elliniko Airport) with a music Show.
Cooperating with singers Makis Christodoulopoulos, Litsa Diamanti, Nikos Nomikos, Michalis Menidiatis & Season
92 ‘ -93 ‘ cooperating with Stamatis Gonidis, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Nikos Nomikos, Michalis Menidiatis , Sabrina, Efi Sarris etc.
Here she presented a live music and dance spectacular show by famous Hollywood musicals accompanied with 28 ballet dancers and a 26 member orchestra where she appeared in roles as Merilyn Monroe and Julie Andrews.
In
1994 she decided to stop her professional career in the artistic field to give priority to her personal life and to be active in the field of business while she played last time in the theater “LAMPETI” Theatre in the performance “Mind your step” Boulevar with: Grigoris Valtinos, Giannis Vouros, Christina Theodoropoulou & Nefeli Orfanou
Since then, she has decided to be active in business.
In
1998 she aquired the exclusive representation for Greece of the Italian engineering company TCMs.r.l. trading with the private and public sector through tenders for commercial vehicle acquisition.
In
2001, Nana Veneti as TCM s.r.l. agent, in cooperation with the company “KONDELIS” IVECO representative in Greece , supplied 36 new crane vehicles to the Greek police through a public tender to deal with illegally parked vehicle in the center of Athens. She later cooperated with the organizations I.L.P.A.P. , O.A.S.A & the Fire Brigade.
In the private sector she supplied ELPA, INTERAMERICAN and other private vehicle transport companies with TCM manufactured vehicles.
In
2002 she acquired the representation of the Italian company Pagliero S.r.l a manufacture of hydraulic lifting platform vehicles which she supplied to D.E.H ( Greek Energy Company) & O.A.S.A after winning a public tender.
At this time Nana began a cooperation with the Italian company AIRO Tigieffe making self-propelled platforms with one of its main customers being the company “Aluminum of Greece” etc.
In
2003 she met the English businessman Nigel Dean on the yacht of a lifelong shipowner friend of hers and in 2004 they married and live between Athens and London.
In
2007 she gave birh to her beloved son Charles-Evangelos Dean.
Since
2010 she has been active in the field of real estate (construction and management) through a company she created with her husband where she is still busily engaged today.
She loves to travel and has traveled to many countries with the most favorite being England and Kenya.
Personal life
She married in
2004 to English businessman Nigel Dean and in
2007 had her son Charles-Evangelos Dean.
