George Tounas

George Tounas is an awardwinning actor and filmmaker best known for City Rush 4 2025 with Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts Achilles Returns 2026 Reloaded 3 2025 Dr Jason II Lights Shadows 2024 Reloaded 2 2024 City Rush 3 2023 Dr Jason 2022 and Reloaded 2021 All these movies are licensed by major international distributors like Amazon Prime Video Tubi Plex Fawesome and many more He has appeared in numerous films TV series and commercials produced by others George attended the New York Film Academy in New York City where he completed a fourweek fulltime actor training program and received a diploma in 2005 In 2009 he completed a twomonth fulltime professional actor training program at the TVI Actors Studio also located in New York City During this time he resided in the Upper West Side of Manhattan for four months In 2010 George briefly visited Los Angeles and participated in a oneday intensive master class at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Hollywood In fact George graduated from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences in Communication Design in 2004 with a Diplom which is equivalent to a Master of Fine Arts degree and excellent grades His art portfolio was rated the best and after an additional successful onsite exam he was accepted in 1998 Additionally he pursued studies at the TEI of Athens in Greece During his high school graduation Abitur in 1997 he received the Art Prize for being the top graduate in Visual Arts After his studies George got employed as an art director media designer frontend and software developer and has worked and is still working for various companies and agencies mostly fulltime for over 20 years since 2004 He also received design awards George is Greek and was born and grew up in Germany His official name is Georgios Tounas He more often uses the more international English version of his first name George holds dual citizenship in Greece and Germany He is multilingual and fluent in English Greek and German and has a working knowledge of French In 201011 he voluntarily served as a soldier in the Greek Army George maintains a strong athletic physique and excels in various sports Despite starting very late at the age of 21 he became one of the top long jumpers in Greece and Germany achieving jumps well over 7 meters In training and in some invalid attempts he even reached around 8 meters He reached the finals of the Greek Athletics Championships South German Athletics Championships and the BadenWürttemberg Athletics Championships placing in the top 10 multiple times George was also Regional Champion in long jump 2002 District Champion in combined events 2002 Regional Champion in javelin throw 2000 District Champion in long jump 2000 and District 2nd Place in high jump 2000 He stopped competing a few years later due to the demands of his professional career but never officially retired and may return to competition in the Masters category aiming for the long jump M50 world record The clubs he competed for were Panellinios Athens MTV Stuttgart and MTG Mannheim George also began his career as a model appearing on runways in the late 1990s George continues to be occasionally booked for modeling assignments He has been married since 2012 and has two children