Natasia Demetriou


Natasia Charlotte Demetriou is an English-Cypriot comedian, actress and screenwriter. She is best known for her starring role as Nadja in the FX horror mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, which is based on the film of the same name. She also stars as Sophie in the BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats, alongside her brother Jamie Demetriou.

Early life

Demetriou was born to an English mother and a Cypriot father; she was raised in North London. She is the sister of Jamie Demetriou, who is also a comedian, actor, and screenwriter. Their father Sotiris, is a chef. She studied acting at University of Leeds. She went to University of Bristol, where alongside her brother she was a member of Bristol Revunions’ sketch troupe, Comedy Biscuit, who received critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe from 2009 to 2011.

Career

Demetriou is a comedian, actress, and screenwriter. Her debut show, You'll Never Have All of Me, won the Skinny Debutant Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She was a longtime member of sketch comedy troupe Oyster Eyes and has written for Anna & Katy and The Midnight Beast. Demetriou made her TV debut in 2013. In 2015 she was in the comedy sketch show pilot of People Time on BBC Three with Ellie White, alongside her brother Jamie Demetriou, with Claudia O’Doherty, Liam Williams, Alistair Roberts and Daran Johnson.
In 2018 she played the fictional on-screen sister to her real life brother Jamie Demetriou's Stath in Channel 4 sitcom, Stath Lets Flats, about a family-run estate agents; which was written and created by her brother. On the 11 May 2020 a special “lockdowned” mini-episode was released online during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the video conferencing application Zoom. She also starred in the acclaimed BBC Three comedy sketch show television pilot, the 2019 Ellie and Natasia a show full of "feminist fury and daft gags" about social anxiety and being a woman today, with Ellie White; BBC commissioned a series but it has been delayed due to Covid 19.
From March 2019, Demetriou has starred as Nadja, a Romani vampire, in the critically acclaimed FX horror comedy, What We Do in the Shadows, a television series created by Jemaine Clement, based upon the 2014 film of the same name which he co-wrote. The mockumentary follows three traditional vampires, living in a house in Staten Island and trying to cope with modern day New York City, along with an energy vampire and a human familiar. The show co-stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Harvey Guillén and Mark Proksch. The second season of ten episodes started in April 2020.
Starting May 18, 2020 Demetriou co-hosted, with Vic Reeves, Netflix’s unscripted reality competition show The Big Flower Fight. The eight-part series sees 10 pairs of contestants in a knockout competition featuring huge flower installations with the winner going on to design an installation to be displayed in London’s Kew Royal Botanic Gardens.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations