Trivia

Has performed in English, French, Greek, Spanish, German, Kurdish, Turkish, Russian, plus a wide variety of accents.

Replaced Timothy Dalton in the title role of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), with three days notice before shooting began.

"Texican" director Robert Rodriguez nicknamed him "The Freek" (French + Greek = Freek, like Texan + Mexican= Texican.) when they met on the set of Escape from L.A. (1996). To this day, Corraface replies "I'm a Freek!" whenever he's asked about his background.

Marlon Brando asked him to play the villain in "Bullboy", his original script that he wanted to produce with Sean Penn directing.

Ancestors belonged to the Di Carafa family of the Naples and Sicily Kingdom. First settled on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1497.

Starred in six Greek films, four of them (Slaughter of the Cock (1996), Peppermint (1999), A Touch of Spice (2003), I chorodia tou Charitona (2005)) went on to represent Greece at the Oscars for the Best Foreign Film selection, having won each time the Best Film of the Year Award in Greece.

Is fluent in Greek, English and French.

Was under contract and on stand- by for four years after having been screen tested by David Lean to play the title role Nostromo, in his adaptation from Joseph Conrad's masterpiece "Nostromo". The film was originally produced by Steven Spielberg, then Serge Silberman took over, but it was never to be shot because Sir David Lean took ill and died.

He had to enroll in more than 20 gyms, as he was working on various theater or cinema productions around the world over that period, in order to stay fit to portray Nostromo, a 19th century docker.

Was born in Paris of Greek parents, musicians who had emigrated after WW II.

Father is Dimitri Chorafas, symphony conductor with a European career, who was asked to become Director of the Athens Opera after the military junta was deposed in 1974.

Starred in Greek record breaking box office hit A Touch of Spice (2003) in 2003. The only Greek film to be sold to 35 countries in decades.

Joined Peter Brook's company for the celebrated 11 hour "Mahabharata" with which he toured all over the world for 3 years before doing a filmed version. Then, went on with "The Tempest" which won a Molière.

Later on, tested for the role of Zorro when Robert Rodriguezwas to direct The Mask of Zorro (1998).

Grandfather Georges Chorafas was a violinist and famous children's song writer.

Aunt Maria Chorafas was a pianist and a off- Broadway playwright in the sixties. Two of her plays were performed at The Circle in the Square in New York.

2005-2010 Presides over the annual International Thessaloniki film festival (April 2010)

Sang with Philippos Pliatsikas and Babis Stokas from famous Pyx Lax rock band in a series of concerts in Brussels, Paris, and Athens in 2013 and 2014.

Was appointed President of The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, as of September 2005 by The Greek Ministry of Culture.

Preparing to play a bum in Camille des Lilas et les voleurs d'enfants (2005) by Jean-Louis Milesi, he asked his dentist to dismount his bridge and walked the streets of Paris in character for days, managing to stay incognito at a time when he had become extremely popular in the wake of a string of hits on French TV, like L'été rouge (2002) and Alex Santana, négociateur (2002).

In 1976, dropped out of theater for 3 years, doing odd jobs, hitchhiking through Europe and the U.S., and singing his lyrics in what he describes as "pre-rap-free-jazz-punk" happenings.

At The National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris he met Rosalie Wallock, a young American playwright and UC Berkeley graduate, whom he was later to marry. They wrote and produced " A Fairytale for Social Scientists ", a Big Brother paranoia play, as their graduate project.

-He is a motorcycle Grand Prix fan and was himself an expert racetrack pilot.

Did the car stunt in Meine Tochter gehört mir (1992).

Studied theater at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris with famed experimental director Antoine Vitez. One of the scandalous performances that they did -with Georges in the role of Phaedra in Jean Racine's classic- brought about such controversy between the conservatives (les classiques) and the progressives (les modernes) of the French theater world that The Conservatory was momentarily shut down.

Nova Award 2013. Hellenic Film Academy. International Achievement Award.