Serge Avédikian

Acting Dec 1, 1955 (71 years old) Yerevan, Armenia

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.

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54 Acting Credits

11 Crew Credits

Serge Avédikian

Acting

Chicken with Plums

Secret Agents

Army of Crime

Dangerous Moves

The Crossing

Mother

In the Name of Blood

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

We Were One Man

The Red Sweater

Armenia

The Stolen Diary

Viva Algeria

Parajanov

Treasure of the Bitch Islands

Softly from Paris

By Then

Entre vents et marées

The Unburdening

Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

Aram

Souvenir

A Millionaire Wanted

Crew

Parajanov

Barking Island

Lost in Armenia

Ligne de vie

Back to Sölöz

No Return Possible

Nous avons bu la même eau

Fifth Dream

Histoire d’amour : Colombe et Avedis

Que sont mes camarades devenus

Paradjanov Libéré