Anna Rezan

Early career

In 2005, Rezan made her first professional appearances on Greek television in the Greek adaptation of The Nanny. She appeared as a dancer in various Greek feature films and TV series such as Woman is a Tough Person a comedy by Antonis Kafetzopoulos, in Loufa kai Paralagi, a television series by the Greek veteran director Nikos Perakis. In June 2007, she worked as the production runner of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.^[11] In July of the same year, Rezan danced in the DJ set of Armin van Buuren in Cavo Paradiso on the Island of Mykonos.^[13] In 2008 she represented Greece at the beauty pageant Miss European Union at the Pallazo di Congressi in Rome, Italy. At the same time, she was choreographing minors in Disney commercials in Greece.

2008 to 2010

In 2008 Rezan appeared in the comedy Greek TV series The Red Room as Svetlana, in which she performed in Russian. Her noteworthy appearance of the year though, was portraying Artemitsa in Farewell Anatolia, the TV adaptation of Dido Soteriou’s bestseller by Greek director Kostas Koutsomutis. During the summer, she starred in the world tour of the rock opera 300 Spartans.^[14] In 2009, after spending some time in London, Rezan moved to New York City. She landed a part in the Indie film Daft Queens, took classes at New York Film Academy and covered Neo magazine.^[15] At the end of that year she enrolled in the Panteion University of Athens to study journalism and co-starred as Babe, the underaged girlfriend in Fokion Bogris gangster feature film Katharsi, which released at the end of that year to mixed reviews. She also guest-starred in the comedy TV series Lola.^[16] During that summer, Rezan moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in an acting program at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. In the same year, she co-produced and co-starred in "Love at First Sight", a romantic comedy short film by Patricia di Salvo, which was selected at the 2010 Cannes film festival.

2010 to present

Rezan in Ever Been to the Moon 2015

Since she was a child she loved to change her style, hair color, look, artistic direction and to create different personas, depending on the project she is working on, such as Anna, Anna The Kid, LadyLight, ARK and Anna Rezan.In 2010 she co-starred in La commedia di Amos Poe with Roberto Benigni. In October 2010, she starred in Greek filmmaker Nikos Zervos's parody of show business, ShowBitch, portraying a teenage rock singer who turns into a rockstar. She also made a guest appearance on the Greek TV series I zoi tis allis.^[13] In 2011 she debuted as a vocalist with the European release of "Let There Be Rain" and co-produced the music video of it in Brooklyn, New York.^[17] In the U.S. market, the song aired for the first time during her interview on the CBS radio show Zodiac Divasby Colby Jensen.^[18] In 2012, Rezan starred and co-produced in The Story of My Life, a comedy film by Dimitris Koukas and Dimitris Nakos in Athens, Greece. She was featured as a dancer in Italian director Paolo Genovese's comedy Immature: Il Viaggio.^[12] In March 2013, she participated in Constantinos Isaias's public service announcement "We Love Cyprus"^[19] that takes place in Los Angeles^[20] and began to cover magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle and the Greek Vogue"".^[12] In 2014, Rezan reunited with Paolo Genoveze in Milan, Italy, for Ever Been to the Moon? as fashion industry's It Girl. In April 2015, she started filming Dance Fight Love Die - With Mikis on the Road in Athens. The film is the work of Asteris Koutoulas ^{[21] [22]} and includes footage of his world tours with Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.^[7][21] In October 2015 she reunited with Amos Poe.^[23] Along with Ali Ozan Akin, they filmed a public service announcement to raise awareness for breast cancer. The film features Rezan's performance in "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles.^{[24] [21]} In January 2016, Rezan hosted the awards ceremony of Hellas Film Box^[25][26] in Berlin.^[27] In 2016 her song "Let there be Love" and in 2017 "My Summer Night", a duet with Barbara Sassari was released internationally by Universal Music Group.^[28] Rezan's directorial debut, "The Greek Holocaust",is a documentary about the Jews of Greece during WW2 produced by Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson.^[8][9]

Film

TV series