Yorgos Filippakis is known as a stage actor in the Brussels scene, having worked in various roles from loyal boyfriend to desperate rebel and petty conman, from Shakespeare plays to Russian comedies and modern stories. He has been applauded in the roles of men who try their luck out and fail, like Jack Cade in Henry VI, who are mistreated and mistreat others like Jean in Miss Julie, who become the object of scorn and gossip like Father Flynn in Doubt, and who will not miss a chance to get rich, like Ivan Khlestakov in The Government Inspector. As an actor, he strives to make something out of nothing, be the one who never gives up and always ready for a laugh.

Born in a Greek family in Athens, Yorgos was brought up looking at wide horizons. Parts of the family had gone to faraway California and his father and uncles were all captains on commercial boats. From an early age, he learned how to be friends with people of all backgrounds and communicate in any way possible. It was on a commercial boat docked in Rotterdam that, as a ten-year old, he first picked a book with Greek comedies and started acting all the roles.

Yorgos dreamt about conquering this wide world and, because doing war didn’t look like fun at all, he decided to conquer it as knowledge, so he learned English, French, Italian, German, some Swedish and Dutch, moved through other countries, studied, worked, talked to people, read books, explored the countryside, went to the movies. He decided to take up acting at a later age and has been learning the craft since, through a series of classes, workshops, his own studying and attempting to apply all of the knowledge on stage and in front of the camera.

His next project is to be the male lead in the Fringe production of a new play, Yellow by Geoffrey Mamdani, which will be shown at the Fringe festival in August 2025.

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