Christos Passalis, born in Thessaloniki, is an actor and theatre/film director. He graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece and collaborated with numerous directors in theatre. In 2004, he co-founded the theatre group BLITZ, for which she collaboratively wrote, directed, and performed in productions until 2017. The group presented its work at major festivals and theatres across Europe, including the Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville, La Comédie de Reims, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Thalia Theater, Barbican Centre, as well as the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre, and the National Theatre. His recent theatrical productions include his collaboration with the Luzerner Theater in Switzerland, where, together with Angeliki Papoulia, he directed Euripides' Alcestis, Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
As a film actor he played in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (Oscars) in 2011. It was followed by numerous awards at festivals worldwide. Furthermore he played in Homeland (Venice 2010), and The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (Berlin 2019) by Syllas Tzoumerkas, Black Field (Karlovy Vary IFF 2010) by Vardis Marinakis, Beachcomber by Aristotelis Maragkos (BAFICI 2025), and in other short and feature films. The film The City and the City, which he co-directed with Syllas Tzoumerkas, had its world premiere in the Encounters section of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival and its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films, organized by MoMA and Lincoln Center. His first feature film SILENCE 6-9 had its world premiere in the Official Competition of the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was screened at numerous festivals around the world.