Actor

Costa-Gavras

Directing

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Movies: 74Series: 9Crew credits: 36

TMDB ID: 27436

IMDb ID: nm0002020

Known for: Directing

Born: February 12, 1933

Age: 93

Place of birth: Loutra-Iraias, Greece

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1958 - 2025

Years active: 68

Average TMDB rating: 6.62

Wikidata: Q296698

Also known as

Costa Gavras • Κώστας Γαβράς • Constantin Costa-Gavras • Konstantínos Gavrás • 科斯塔·加夫拉斯 • Kēsī tǎ·jiā fū lā sī • コスタ＝ガヴラス • Kosuta = gavurasu • Konstantinos Gavras • Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς • +5 more

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Director (24)Assistant Director (5)Producer (2)Co-Writer (1)First Assistant Director (1)Story (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K..