Serge Avédikian

Serge Avédikian Armenian Սերժ Ավետիքյան born 1 December 1955 sometimes credited as Serje Avétikian is an ArmenianFrench 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 Stalins and Maurice Thorezs 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 professors 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 CCBYSA 30