Anna Rezan (Greek: Άννα (Hannah) Rezan ÎšÏ Î¹Ï„ÏƒÎµÎ»Î· born 12
December 1992) is an actress, model, musician, and filmmaker. Rezan
began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and
television series, most notably co-starring in the 2008 TV drama
Farewell Anatolia and starring in the 2010 comedy film ShowBitch.Her
first international feature film co-starring role was in La commedia
di Amos Poe, a new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy by Amos Poe
starring Roberto Benigni that premiered in the 2010 Venice Film
Festival. and she made her catwalk debut as a high fashion model in
New York Fashion Week in 2013. Her debut song "Let there be rain" was
released internationally in 2011 and in 2016 her song Let there be
Love was released internationally by Universal Music Group. In 2017
she co starred in Dance Fight Love Die - With Mikis Theodorakis on the
Road, which is written and directed by Asteris Koutoulas and premiered
in Hof International Film Festival. Rezan's directorial debut, My
People: Jews of Greece, is a documentary about the Jews of Greece
during World War II, produced by her and two Academy Award winners
Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson that was completed in 2020.Rezan was
born in Athens, the daughter of Fotis who was born in Athens, from
Izmir, Crete and Peloponnesus, a federal judge who had wanted to be a
director, and Eva Matilda Kalamara, a Greek-Jewish lawyer of Spanish
and Polish descent, born in Athens who also studied at Karolos Koun
school of Dramatic Arts before going to law school. She has a brother
named Leon. Rezan's great grandmother Rachel Kalamara was arrested by
the Germans during World War II and did not return from the Auschwitz
concentration camp. Her grandfather was rescued by Christian Greeks
and survived the war.Since the age of five, she was staging musical
theater and comedy shows in the living room and she started studying
musical theater and performed in various stagecoach productions and
school plays. While watching the comedy and musical Greek films of the
60s, as well as American films, she decided to be become an actress.
She vowed to move to the United States, although the family had no
friends or family members in the U.S. at that time.
December 1992) is an actress, model, musician, and filmmaker. Rezan
began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and
television series, most notably co-starring in the 2008 TV drama
Farewell Anatolia and starring in the 2010 comedy film ShowBitch.Her
first international feature film co-starring role was in La commedia
di Amos Poe, a new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy by Amos Poe
starring Roberto Benigni that premiered in the 2010 Venice Film
Festival. and she made her catwalk debut as a high fashion model in
New York Fashion Week in 2013. Her debut song "Let there be rain" was
released internationally in 2011 and in 2016 her song Let there be
Love was released internationally by Universal Music Group. In 2017
she co starred in Dance Fight Love Die - With Mikis Theodorakis on the
Road, which is written and directed by Asteris Koutoulas and premiered
in Hof International Film Festival. Rezan's directorial debut, My
People: Jews of Greece, is a documentary about the Jews of Greece
during World War II, produced by her and two Academy Award winners
Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson that was completed in 2020.Rezan was
born in Athens, the daughter of Fotis who was born in Athens, from
Izmir, Crete and Peloponnesus, a federal judge who had wanted to be a
director, and Eva Matilda Kalamara, a Greek-Jewish lawyer of Spanish
and Polish descent, born in Athens who also studied at Karolos Koun
school of Dramatic Arts before going to law school. She has a brother
named Leon. Rezan's great grandmother Rachel Kalamara was arrested by
the Germans during World War II and did not return from the Auschwitz
concentration camp. Her grandfather was rescued by Christian Greeks
and survived the war.Since the age of five, she was staging musical
theater and comedy shows in the living room and she started studying
musical theater and performed in various stagecoach productions and
school plays. While watching the comedy and musical Greek films of the
60s, as well as American films, she decided to be become an actress.
She vowed to move to the United States, although the family had no
friends or family members in the U.S. at that time.
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