Pavlos Haikalis

Pavlos Haikalis
Under Secretary of for Labour and Social Solidarity (Greece)
In office 18 July 2015 – 27 August 2015
Preceded by	Dimitris Stratoulis
Succeeded by	Anastasios Petropoulos
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office 6 May 2012 – 28 August 2015
Personal details
Born	Pavlos Haikalis (1959-10-30) 30 October 1959 (age 65) Katakolo, Elis Kingdom of Greece
Political party	Independent Greeks
Spouse	Evdokia Pentzaki ​ (divorced)​ Margarita Soldatou ​ (divorced)​ Maria Lykou ​ (divorced)​
Children	Giorgios Haikalis
Relatives	Thanasis Haikalis (brother)
Education	Drama School Giorgos Theodosiadis
Occupation	Actor voice actor politician
Military service
Allegiance	Greece
Branch/service	Hellenic Army

Pavlos Haikalis (also Chaikalis; Greek: Παύλος Χαϊκάλης; born 30 October 1959) is a Greek actor and politician.^[1]

Biography

Pavlos Haikalis was born in Katakolo, Elis, on 30 October 1959. He, and his older brother Thanasis Haikalis (1948-2022), was raised by his mother Nikoleta because by the time Pavlos Haikalis was 10-year-old his father Giorgos Haikalis, who was a travel agent, passed away. After two years they started the health problems of his mother, he and his brother began working at variety of odd jobs for livelihood. He worked as waiter, labourer and warehouseman at factory, newsstand kioskman, detective and others.^[2]

Thanasis Haikalis was a clerk at the Sivitanidios Public School of Trades and Vocations^[3] in Kallithea, Attica, after his retirement was relocated to his origin town of Katakolo, Elis, where was engaged in amateur acting became a member of the local theatre group Trojan Horse (Δούρειος Ίππος). Although his brother passed away on 11 November 2022, at the same day Pavlos Haikalis acted at the Apollon Theatre in Pyrgos, Elis playing his brother's role on the play The late mother of the lady (Η μακαρίτισσα μητέρα της κυρίας) of the theatre group Trojan Horse.^[4]

Pavlos Haikalis relocated in Athens after he was failed at the last grade of gymnasium school (now lyceum school). He studied acting at Athens's Drama School Giorgos Theodosiadis,^[5] after actor Ilias Logothetis^[6] motivated him to enroll at it. He served his military service at armored forces on the borders of Greece. Nearly the end of his military service, he was invited by the drama school to act to the theatrical play End of the Journey (Τέλος του ταξιδιού) at the Amiral Theatre, in Athens, with actors Aggelos Antonopoulos and Danis Katranidis. Later he was acted at the play Our Person (Δικό μας άνθρωπο) with Lakis Komninos and Eleni Erimou.^[2]

His acting career includes many films such as Safe Sex (1999), The Limousine (2013),^[7] and TV series such as the ERT2's Androklis and his lions (1985), Mega's Fifty Fifty (2005-2007 and 2010-2011) starring together with Petros Filippidis and Sakis Boulas, Mega's The Block of Flats (2008-2011).^[8][1] Also he performed as a voice actor at the ERT1's puppetry series Froutopia (1985-1988).^[9][10]

In February 2021, Haikalis was accused by 4 women of sexual harassment, and inappropriate behavior. ^[11] The Hellenic Actors' Union (SEI) at its general session on 10 April 2022 has unanimously decided the lifelong removal of Pavlos Haikalis from its registry of members.^[12][13]

Today Pavlos Haikalis has abandoned the theatre ^[14] and public life in general, has settled permanently in the city where he was born and deals with astrology.^[15]

Political career

From 18 July 2015 until 28 August 2015 he was the Deputy Minister for Labour and Social Solidarity in the coalition government of Alexis Tsipras.^[16] From May 2012 until August 2015 Haikalis was a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Independent Greeks representing the Attica constituency. Before joining the cabinet he was spokesman of his party for social security.^[17]

Haikalis has admitted that as a taxpayer he had not declared an invoice of 45.000 euros on his annual income tax declaration, which is being submitted to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). In June 2015, Pavlos Haikalis made some xenophobic statements, said «aliens are blame for the growth in crime and unemployment» and «Greek do not become, but you are born».^[2]

During the summer of 2015 drew a large amount of media attention because it revealed that Pavlos Haikalis owned an offshore company based in Cyprus since 2008 while as a then Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmaker of the Hellenic Parliament he did not declare it on his provenance of wealth declaration, also called "pothen esches" (a formal document listing sources of income and assets that is submitted to auditing authorities annually by Greek lawmakers) for which a parliament committee monitors the origin of wealth declaration.^[18] Pothen Esches expressly forbids Members of Hellenic Parliament from owning or participating in an offshore company, thus it is incompatible with the holding of a seat as lawmaker of parliament. The Independent Greeks political party was forced to exclude him from their ballot in 2015 parliamentary elections.^[2][19]

Personal life

His first marriage was with actress Evdokia Pentzaki^[20] with whom he had one son Giorgos Haikalis (born 1990) from whom he had one grandson (born 2019). His second marriage was with actress Margarita Soldatou.^[21] Haikalis was married her third wife police officer Maria Lykou^[22] with civil marriage on 6 November 2015 in a ceremony at the Town Hall of Rafina, Attica, but four years later in 2019 they divorced and Haikalis announced that he assumes responsibility.^[2]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Loxandra		Television debut
1980-1981	Drunken city	son	Series regular / 21 episodes
1982	Singers of liberty		1 episode
1984	Our own person	Kraef	Lead role / 13 episodes
	Local newspaper		Lead role / 12 episodes
1985	Androklis and his lions		Series regular / 26 episodes
1986	Stories from Kefallonia		1 episode
1985-1988	Froutopia	different voice roles	Recurring role / 24 episodes
1986	Madam Sousou	Vrasidas	2 episodes
1987	Maria Dimadi	Michalis	Series regular / 8 episodes
	Swear Please	Ermolaos	Episode: "The victims of Ermolaos"
	The tv station of Vaggelitsa	Sakis Klamenos	1 episode
1987-1988	Stories from the box	Sevastianos (voice)	Lead role / 22 episodes
1988	The siblings		1 episode
	Antheon Street	Theocharis	Lead role / 13 episodes
	Frames		Recurring role
1988-1989	Hush, our country is sleeping		Series regular / 13 episodes
1989	Who came to our house tonight		Lead role / 8 episodes
1989-1990	Inspection, Inspection		Lead role / 13 episodes
1990-1991	The gamester	Andonio	Lead role / 25 episodes
1990-1993	Psarokostoula my darling		Lead role / 190 episodes
1991	Blue Cruise		Lead role / 14 episodes
1991-1992	The judge	Solon	Recurring role
1992	You will talk with my lawyer		1 episode
	The Unacceptables		Episode: "Unacceptable New Year's Eve"
	Red-Black	Himself (host)	TV special
1992-1993	Crazy housemates	Tasos Tyfoxilos	Lead role / 41 episodes
1992-1998	Deka mikroi Mitsoi	naughty grandmother / priest Lambros	Lead role / 39 episodes
1993	Harry Clyn Show	Himself	1 episode
	The three bodyguards		Recurring role
	Tis Ellados ta Paidia	Hercules Pouaeres	Episode: "I'm not a terrorist"
1994	The Good Mother-in-law	Paolo	Lead role / 16 episodes
	Anyone with their own needs		Lead role / 13 episodes
	Department of Ethics		Episode: "Exclusively"
1994-1997	Wheel of Fortune Greece	Himself (host)	Season 6-8
1995	The bis examarten	Lakis	Episode: "Groom urgently wanted"
	One in the morning, other in night	Foivos Tamianopoulos	2 episodes
1996	They and I	Nikitas	Episode: "Hunting job"
	Unforgettable comedies	Babis Rentzis	Episode: "Babis and Babinos"
1998-1999	When Harry broke up with Mary		Lead role / 17 episodes
1999	No men anymore	Theocharis	1 episode
	Two Strangers	police officer	1 episode
1999-2000	Criss Cross	Thomas	Lead role / 30 episodes
2000	Innocent or Guilty		6 episodes
2000-2001	What Soul Will You Deliver, You Fool Woman?	priest Lambros	Lead role / 7 episodes
2001-2003	Under the Acropolis	Babis	Lead role / 250 episodes
2004	Seven deadly mothers-in-law	Giorgos Lorandos	Episode: "The Racist Mother-in-law"
2005-2007	Wedding ring on the right	Theofilos Giantzoglou	Series regular / 413 episodes
2005-2011	Fifty Fifty	Mimis Sarantinos	Lead role / 81 episodes
2006-2008	The Red Room	officer Karantinos	6 episodes
2007-2008	The Cicada and the Ant	Antonis Kavouras	Lead role / 18 episodes
	Daddy's Girls	Pavlos Prassas	Lead role / 26 episodes
2008-2011	The Block of Flats	Thanasis Balafoutis	Lead role / 132 episodes
2009	The Secrets of Eden	lawyer	1 episode
2012	My Mother's Sin	priest Nikolaos	1 episode
2013	The Delicatessen Grigoriou	Pavlos Allantopoulos	Lead role / 25 episodes
2013-2014	The Diner	Leonidas Ifantis	Lead role / 38 episodes
2014-2017	The Classmates	Isidoros Nikolaidis	Series regular / 433 episodes
2018	Deka Mikroi Mitsoi	naughty grandmother	Lead role / 5 episodes
2018-2019	Free Relationship	Nikos Papakostas	Lead role / 33 episodes
2019-2020	The Block of Flats Mess	Evripidis Papadakis	Lead role / 35 episodes
2021	On my shoes	Giannaros	Recurring role / 30 episodes

Notes and references

1. "Pavlos Haikalis". cine.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
2. "Παύλος Χαϊκάλης: Το "αρσενικό παλαιάς κοπής" με το ανασφάλιστο όχημα" [Pavlos Haikalis: «man of old school» with the uninsurance car]. Protothema (in Greek). 23 April 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03.
3. "Σιβιτανίδειος Δημόσια Σχολή Τεχνών και Επαγγελμάτων" [Sivitanidios Public School of Trades and Vocations]. sivitanidios.edu.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
4. "Παύλος Χαϊκάλης: Πέθανε ο αδερφός του ηθοποιού" [Pavlos Haikalis: Actor's brother passed away]. mediatime.gr (in Greek). 12 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-03-13.
5. "Δραματική Σχολή Αθηνών "Γιώργος Θεοδοσιάδης"" [Drama School Giorgos Theodosiadis]. athensdrama.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2022-12-03.
6. "Ilias Logothetis". IMDb.
7. "The Limousine (2013)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03.
8. "Actor Pavlos Haikalis". IMDb.
9. "Froutopia". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
10. "Actor Pavlos Haikalis Filmography". IMDb. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
11. "Αρνείται και τις πέντε καταγγελίες ο Π. Χαϊκάλης – Επίσημη δήλωση του" [Pavlos Haikalis denies all five accusations against him – His official public statement]. efsyn.gr (in Greek). 23 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03.
12. "Φιλιππίδης, Κιμούλης, Χαϊκάλης: Δια βίου διαγραφή από το Σωματείο Ελλήνων Ηθοποιών" [Petros Filippidis, Giorgos Kimoulis, Pavlos Haikalis: Lifelong removal from the Hellenic Actors' Union] (in Greek). LiFO. 10 April 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17.
13. "ΣΕΗ: Δια βίου διαγραφή για Φιλιππίδη, Χαϊκάλη, Κιμούλη" [Hellenic Actors' Union (SEI): Lifelong removal for the Filippidis, Haikalis, Kimoulis] (in Greek). Protothema. 10 April 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-04-19.
14. "Παύλος Χαϊκάλης: Ανακοίνωσε ότι εγκαταλείπει οριστικά το θέατρο" [Pavlos Haikalos: He announced that he leaves permanently from the theatre]. intronews.gr (in Greek). 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 2024-05-23.
15. "Επανεμφάνιση Χαϊκάλη από το Κατάκολο Ηλείας: Βιοπορίζομαι με τη σύνταξή μου - Είδα τόση καφρίλα που σιχάθηκα" [Reappearance of Pavlos Haikalis from Katakolo: I make a livelihood with my pension - I saw so much rowdiness rough behaviour that I was sick of it] (in Greek). The Toc. 14 October 2023. Archived from the original on 2024-05-23.
16. "Greece PM opts for limited reshuffle". ekathimerini.com. Kathimerini. 17 July 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
17. "New cabinet replaces ministers who voted against EU reforms". France 24. 18 July 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
18. "Haikalis hits back at graft allegations". Kathimerini. 28 August 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06.
19. "Was Independent Greeks (ANEL) Member of Hellenic Parliament Pavlos Haikalis offered a money "bribe" of 3 million euros?". The Toc. 20 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Everything you wanted to know about the Independent Greeks (ANEL) bribery scandal / fiasco / circus but were afraid to ask
20. "Evdokia Pentzaki". IMDb.
21. "Margarita Soldatou". IMDb.
22. "Member of Hellenic Parliament Pavlos Haikalis falls victim to robbers". The Toc. 3 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. According to reports, the perpetrators seized jewels, two watches and the service gun of Haikalis's wife, who is a police officer and the MP's official bodyguard

External links

• Pavlos Haikalis at IMDb
• Pavlos Haikalis at retrodb.gr (in Greek)
• Terms of office of Pavlos Haikalis at the Hellenic Parliament (in English)