- Fluent in English, Greek and French.
- While in Paris, in the mid-eighties, he lived with singer Anna-Jane Weaving, sister of actor Hugo Weaving.
- Is a very close friend of Cypriot-born, Paris-based cool designer Erotokritos.
- Wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called "Will you still love me tomorrow?"
- At 32 he was the youngest stage director to work for the Cyprus National Theatre.The play he was called to direct was Barry Collins' "Judgement".
- As a drama student in Paris, he was cast as the male lead (a character also called Agis)in Marivaux's play "Le triomphe de l'amour" ("The triumph of love").
- Graduated from high-school two months before turning seventeen.
- Promoted to the rank of lieutenant, during compulsory military service, six months before his eighteenth birthday.
- His third given name "Daphnis" was chosen by his parents as a reference to Maurice Ravel's ballet (commissioned by Diaghilev in 1909) "Daphnis et Chloe".His sister is called Chloe.
- Attended the University of California in Santa Barbara for one year as an exchange student from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
- "Agis" was the name of several Spartan kings in antiquity. It is actually pronounced "Ah-yees".
- Attended Brooklyn College in New York for one year as an exchange student from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
- (Spring 2005) His staging of a long-forgotten French play - Yves Jamiaque's "Acapulco Madame" - was the season's biggest theatrical hit in his hometown, Nicosia.
- Parents divorced when he was nineteen.
- Scored a surprise stage hit with his production of Neil Simon's "Fools".
- Shares birthday with deaf actress 'Marlee Matlin', French musician 'Jean-Michel Jarre' and Brazilian bestselling author 'Paulo Coelho'.
- There was a public outcry when he was jailed for 21 days for "assault with actual bodily harm" after a quarrel with a civil servant.The sentence was deemed too harsh since there were no witnesses to the incident and the "actual bodily harm" consisted of a red mark on the cheek of the civil servant who claimed she had been slapped.
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