Peter Polycarpou (born 31 March 1957 in Brighton, East Sussex) is an English-Cypriot actor, known for playing the roles of Chris Theodopolopodous in the television comedy series Birds of a Feather and Louis Charalambos in the biographical drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.
In February 2006, Polycarpou appeared in EastEnders, playing Yannis Pappas, father-in-law of character Carly Wicks for 3 episodes.
[5] Later that year he played the Hollywood mogul Buddy Fiddler in Larry Gelbart's City of Angels at the Donmar Theatre, London.
Rogers's stage play Oslo at London's National Theatre, accompanying the production when it transferred to the West End in the following month.
[8] In March 2018, Polycarpou played the fictional Palestinian detective Omar Yussef in two BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Matt Beynon Rees.
[9][10] In July 2018 he narrated Raja Shehadeh's biographical Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.
In 2019 he played Sancho in Man of La Mancha for English National Opera at the London Coliseum opposite Kelsey Grammer as Cervantes/Quixote, Danielle de Niese as Aldonza/Dulcinea and Nicholas Lyndhurst as the Governor/Innkeeper.
[citation needed] Polycarpou is also a drama teacher and has developed a one-day workshop which he teaches in youth theatres and schools throughout the UK.
He has directed a production of the Les Misérables Schools edition for the Act Too Youth theatre in Sussex, UK and the musical Rent.