Anna Rezan

Acting and directing

In 2005, Rezan made her first appearance on Greek television in Η Νταντά, the Greek adaptation of The Nanny, and had minor parts in several TV series and films.^[18] She worked as a production runner on the set of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; performed at the DJ set of Armin van Buuren in Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos;^[18][3] and represented Greece in the Miss European Union pageant in 2008.^[2][19] That year, she also appeared as Svetlana in the Greek comedy The Red Room, where she spoke Russian; starred in a TV adaption of Farewell Anatolia as Artemitsa; and performed in the rock opera The 300 Spartans on their world tour.^[20][3] She spent time in London in 2009 and moved briefly to New York City before resettling in Los Angeles. She continued working in Greece on projects such as the film Katharsi and as a guest star on Lola.^[13] She co-produced and co-starred in the romantic comedy Love at First Sight, a short film by Patricia di Salvo that was selected at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.^[3][20] She also spent time in London modeling Couture fashion from Rira Sugawara for Vogue Italia and has walked in London Fashion Week.Discovered by Kithe Brewster she opened his show in 2014 during New York Fashion Week .^[3][20][21]

She starred as Hrysa, a teenage rock singer who turns into a rock star, in Nikos Zervo's Show Bitch in 2010.^[3] It premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.^[18][12] From there, she starred in a number of TV shows and films including Ever Been to the Moon?,^[22] and appeared in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Esquire.^[2][17] In 2015, she filmed Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road, a docu-fiction film by Asteris Koutoulas about composer Mikis Theodorakis.^{[23][24][6][25]} The film premiered at the Hof International Film Festival in 2017 and was released in theaters in 2018. Mikis Theodorakis and George Dalaras praised her performance. In 2016, she hosted the first annual Hellas Filmbox festival awards ceremony in Berlin, the city's first-ever Greek film festival.^{[26][27][28][29]} The following year, she portrayed supermodel Kate Mosscowitz in Victoria Larimore's Open House.^[23]

In 2019, Rezan began the production of Beauty Before Age, a British television sitcom comedy, that was set for release in 2024.In 2022, she co-produced The Re Education Camp, a short documentary focusing on the Makronisos concentration camp used during the Greek Civil War and the Greek junta.^[19]

Her feature directorial debut My People, which she wrote, directed, produced, and narrated, is a feature-length documentary about Jews in Greece & the Greek Resistance movement during World War II.^{[30][1][12][31]} The film premiered in Los Angeles in 2022 at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. In October 2022, it had its New York city premiere where it won the Audience Award for Best Film.^[32][33] The film had its Colorado premiere at the Vail Film Festival.^[34]

In January 2023 the Order of AHEPA Bergen Knights Chapter #285 hosted the New Jersey Premiere of "My People," to honor the Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as Rezan for promoting Hellenism across the world.^[35]

In September 2023 Rezan was honored by Brock Pierce and members of Congress for her contribution to history and culture, in Washington, DC.^[36] A week after, she returned on stage and starred at Giannis Ritsos play in her native Greece, which was directed by Asteris Kutulas^[37] In November she staged a musical theater piece, titled 'I am Calling my Old Friends...' to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

Since 2024 she co¬stars in viral Tubi comedy crime TV series Great Kills (TV series).^[11][38] In October 2024 she is filming in Germany alongside Eric Roberts, portraying the lead role of "Nea" in sci-fi action franchise "City Rush 4" that is set to be released in 2025.

In November 2025 Rezan was on set in Pennsylvania for "Mr Blueshirt: The Inspiration" and the film is set to be released in 2026. In December she was on the cover of InStyle^[39].

In February 2026 Rezan in Belfast, Ireland costarring as Natasha O'Conell in "An Irish American Horror" by Irish filmmaker Olcan McSparron.^[40]

Music

Rezan released her first song, "Let There Be Rain" from the film Show Bitch, in 2011 and co-produced the music video in Brooklyn, New York City.^[5][3] The track was produced at Equinox Studios in Luxembourg and aired for the first time in the United States on the CBS radio show Zodiac Divas in 2013.^[41][2][42] She covered the song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles in a 2015 public service announcement directed by Amos Poe.^[43][24] In 2016, she signed with Minos EMI and Universal Music Group and released "Let There Be Love."^[44] "My Summer Night," a Latin pop ballad duet with Barbara Sassari, came out in 2017,^[44] as did her cover of Mikis Theodorakis' "The Honeymoon Song" in the style of the Beatles. The music video was released ahead of the film Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road. She also performed "Day in May" in German and "The Bells Will Ring" in Greek and English during the film.^[43] In 2020, she recorded and released worldwide a Greek version of "My Summer Night" called "San Nychta Kalokairini" and a week after she released a cover of the 1970s Greek folk song "Kapoios Giortazi" with Barbara Sassari.^[6][45][46] In November 2023 she collaborated with Julio Iglesias and her cover of "Baila Morena" featuring Taavi Vartia was released by Universal Music Group^[11][38]

Film

TV series