- Was offered to repeat her role of Medea at Theatro Petra, Athens by the great Greek director Minos Volanakis.
- Has had personal interviews with the legendary Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni in his apartment in Via Tiberio, and with Lina Wertmüller the first woman director to win an Oscar ,in Piazza Principeassa Clothilde in Roma.
- Up until 2018 Angelique was the only actress in the UK of mainland Greek parentage who has worked in the Greek language in mainland Greece, in Greek Television, and in Greek films.
- Angelique was asked by the renowned Greek film director Pantelis Voulgaris of the Brides (2004) fame to find funding for Elia Kazan's last film project about Kazan's family immigration from the beleaguered Greek minority communities under Turkish rule in Asia Minor to the USA where the Kazan family settled. Angelique arranged a meeting between the London based film financier Frixos Constantini of Poseidon Films and Mr Kazan at the Grand Bretagne Hotel in Athens.
- When considering who to choose as director for the play El Campo, Angelique in her naivety turned down the 21 year old Deborah Warner, who became the great director Deborah Warner. Deborah Warner had been suggested to her by Julia Pascal.
- When Angelique asked Declan Donnellan to direct her company's production of Ford' s 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ', the production that was the launch pad of this duo's Cheek by Jowl's illustrious career . Angelique paid Donnelan the director a fee of £200. Nick Ormerod was the designer assisted by Ann Hubbard. Angelique also stipulated that the subplot be omitted so that the tragedy was more poignant and intense.
- Mary Selway cast the totally inexperienced Angelique in the big budget science fiction film 'Outland ' directed by Peter Hyams , in a scene opposite the legendary Sean Connery on the strength of a letter of recommendation from the great South African actor Cobus Rossouw.
- Angelique was cast as Henrietta in The Witches by Nicolas Roeg, having seen her performance of Carmen in the multi-racial production of Genet's 'The Balcony' presented by her company Internationalist Theatre in London's Theatre Space. Roeg was in the audience with Teresa Russell.
- It was Ken Livingston as arts member of the Greater London Council (now ex-mayor of London) who offered the first arts grant to Angelique's company Internationalist Theatre, having seen a performance of Griselda Ganmbaro's anti-fascist and harrowing play 'El Campo' ( The Camp) at Africa Centre, Covent Garden.
- Angelique was influenced in her Wits university years by the great Greek human rights lawyer George Bizos, friend and attorney of Nelson Mandela and one of the framers of the constitution of the new South Africa.
- Angelique went to drama school in Cape Town with South Africa's most famous woman playwright Reza De Wet.
- Angelique's first audition in the UK was with the RSC.
- Angelique was at drama school with Vincent Ebrahim.
- Angelique's first professional appearance /job was to narrate a passage in Middle English from the Morte D'Athur on the SABC in Cape Town.
- After graduating with her BA degree, Angelique's parents sent her on a tour of Europe's cultural capitals.
- Angelique's favourite film is Andre Tarkovski's Andre Rublev. She heard the great Russian director being interviewed by another great UK film director of If , Lindsay Anderson at the Riverside Studios.
- Angelique holds an Honors degree in English Literature with a major in Philosophy from Wits University, Johannesburg. She is an anti-apartheid activist and studied Acting at Cape Town University. She is multi-lingual, speaking English, Greek, Afrikaans, French, and some Italian. Her anti-apartheid and feminist activism in South Africa forced her eventually to leave the then underdeveloped and extremely conservative country in order to pursue her goals.
- Costas Ferris of the film Rembetiko (1983) fame ,cast Angelique as Nereida in Oh Babylon (1989) and well known Greek film director Thodoros Maragos famous for his ground breaking film Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981) especially wrote the part of Ms. Ortiki for Angelique in the 12 part ERT series Emmones Idees (1989) (Idees Fixes), a satire on consumerism and the advertising industry.
- Angelique went to see Peter Brook at the Bouffes Du Nord in Paris on the recommendation of the Royal Court's Lindy Jones .
- In the Theatro Technis production of Ethnikos Aravonas directed by George Eugeniou,Angelique playing the role Kuproula a Cypriot Greek peasant living in the invaded part of Northern Cyprus refusing to be ethnically cleansed by Turkish troops - found herself performing in front of real Greek Cypriot refugees hounded out by Turkish forces and who had fled to London.
- The photographs used in the Vogue Mexico interview were taken by the well known London photographer John Stoddart.
- As a teenager in a convent boarding school , Angelique did a course in modeling with a Norman Hartnell model, Gail Anderson-Gregg.
- It was while studying English Literature, discovering Jacobean tragedies and greats like Beckett that increased Angelique's hunger to perform, so after graduating from Wits University, she went to Cape Town Drama School.
- Angelique Rockas, a South African actress who lives in London, started the Internationalist Theatre in the 1980s, which presented multiracial productions of classical plays - at a time when these were the bastion of white-only casting. Although this is now standard practice, it was Rockas's theatre company that put this on the map.
- Angelique has had herself disconnected from Linkedin on three separate occasions on account of vested interests ranging from mega rich Greeks and Turkish Governmemnt admin complaining about her activism.
- While studying at Wits University, Angelique was invited to participate in Greek Independence from Ottoman Slavery poetry celebrations on 25th March. She recited lines from Byron's the Isles of Greece : The mountains look on Marathon and Marathon looks down on the see , and standing on a Persian's grave. Also participating was the great Greek human rights lawyer George Bizos, friend and attorney of Nelson Mandela and one of the framers of the constitution of the new South Africa.
- Angelique Rockas gets nominated by Adamantia Angeli Chief Executive for CID Unesco for CID membership, November 2011. (2013)
- Angelique Rockas is a researcher on Academia_edu and has posted 6 articles .
- Angelique Rockas has works of her Fabric Art at Greece's Benaki Museum Visual Arts section
- Angelique Rocaks has her own research stack on the Internet Archive the main focus being political .
- Angelique Rockas has an Academic Influence Ranking
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