Serge Avédikian

Biography

Serge Avédikian (Armenian: Սերժ Ավետիքյան; born 1 December 1955), sometimes credited as Serje Avétikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize. Avédikian was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR. His parents were born in France, children of survivors of the Armenian genocide. In 1947, influenced by Joseph Stalin's and Maurice Thorez's propaganda, they left to rejoin the motherland, where Avédikian attended the French school of Yerevan. At the age of fifteen along with his family, he returned to France. He had his stage debut in college, in his professor's amateur theater company. After studies at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Meudon (France), he arrived in Paris in 1971 where he worked with the students of the Paris Conservatory. In 1976, he created a theater company and produced several plays. At the same time, he pursued a career as a theater, movie and television actor. In 1988, he founded his own production company but continues to direct films. Source: Article "Serge Avédikian" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Known For

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Softly from Paris

as Charles

Nuages

as Jean-Clair

Souvenir

as Taxi Driver

Mother

as Vaksen Papasian

Army of Crime

as Micha Aznavourian

Secret Agents

as Igor Lipovsky

Chicken with Plums

as Le père d'Irâne

Rainbow Serpent

as Guy Merlin

In the Name of Blood

as Père Alexandre

Regina auf den Stufen

as Janos

Dangerous Moves

as Fadenko

Mitterrand confidentiel

as Mikhaïl Gorbatchev

Djihad!

as Jean-Pierre Durieux

Entre vents et marées

as Santi

The Crossing

as Jon (voice)

Wrong Tense

Blanche et claire

We Were One Man

as Guy Rouveron

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

as Armenak