Anna Elbakyan

Anna Elbakyan
Born	Anna Abramyan 5 September 1963 Yerevan, Armenia
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present
Children	Edgar Elbakyan, Jr., Lili Elbakyan

Anna Elbakyan (Armenian: Աննա Աբրահամի Էլբակյան, born September 5, 1963) is an Armenian actress. She became an Armenian star after headlining the drama Where Have You Been, Man of God? (TV mini-series)(1992).

Biography

• In 1982 she graduated from the Actors Studio of the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan.
• In 1986 he graduated from Yerevan State University Faculty of Social Sciences, specialty art.
• In 1982-1990, the period 1998-2003, from 2008 - Actress of the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan.
• From 2000–present - Actress of the Drama and Comedy Theater after Edgar Elbakyan
• Since 2000 - director, and from 2005 chief director of the Yerevan State Marionettes Theater.

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of RA. Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of RA.

Filmography

• The White Bone
• Face-to-wall
• Where have you been, man of God?^[1]
• The Thief
• Silhouette
• Yerevan jan
• Tavern
• Elegy

Television

• Irene - "The Eighth Day of the Creator" Kacha.
• Girl - "Detention House Charents" Charents
• Astghik "Higher Hell" by S. Papazian
• Mary - "Ghosts" by E. de Filippo
• Princess - "Crystal Love" L. Ustinov
• Marguerite - "Mefistofele" by S. Aleshin
• Solange - "The Sixth Floor."

Theatre work

Actor's work

• Juliet - " Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel.
• Abbey - "Desire Under the Elms" Eugene O'Neill.
• Lyalya - "Dear Elena" Lyudmila Razumovskaya.
• Fanshetta - "Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro" by Pierre de Beaumarchais 1985
• Valya - "The Bride of the North" J. Haroutunian.
• Tatiana - "Finding Joy" Viktor Rozov.
• Baiba - "Blow wind" John Rainis.
• Author - "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" Bertolt Brecht.
• Armanda - "Life of Moliere," Mikhail Bulgakov.
• Elsa - "Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan.
• Agapi - "American adzhabsandal" Agassi Ayvazian.
• Tom, Kitty - "Will you dance with me?" Based on the plays and short stories by William Saroyan.^[2]
• Fat - "Red lights" Lily Elbakyan.^[2]
• Katherine - "Suddenly, Last Summer" Tennessee Williams.
• Alice - "Play Strindberg" Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
• Maryam - "Belated bird" Author Anna and Armen Elbakyan.
• Elmira - "Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur" Molière.
• Helen - "Oscar" Claude Magnier 1996
• Cordelia - "King Lear" by William Shakespeare 1996
• Agnes - "Bowl of Kindness" by William Saroyan.
• Queen - "The Cave Dwellers" by William Saroyan.
• Willie, Kitty, Jig - "Willie, Kitty, Jig ..." Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan.

Directing the work

Yerevan State Marionettes Theatre

• "The Princess and the Pea " Hans Christian Andersen 2010
• "Thumbelina" Hans Christian Andersen 2008
• "How brave rooster won a fox" is based on Russian folk tales in 2007
• "Star of Hope" in the Biblical explanation of 2005
• "A true friend" - R. Marukhyan 2002
• "Creation of Peace" based on the Bible in 2002
• "Winter's Tale" - Anna Elbakyan 2000

Prizes and awards

• 2012 Armenian National Film Academy Award "Hayak" - the Best Actress^[3]
• 2011 People of the Year 2010 «LUXURY» - the Best Actress
• 2008 Armenian National Theater Academy Award "Artavazd" - the Best Actress
• 2006 Prize of the Ministry of Culture of RA "Artist" - the Best Actress
• 2005 Armenian National Theater Academy Award "Artavazd" - the Best Actress
• 2001 "Gold Medal" of the Ministry of Culture of RA

References

1. "Фильм "Где ты был, божий человек?" удостоился сразу трех наград "Айак"". PanARMENIAN.Net. 18 March 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
2. "Спектакль "Не потанцуешь со мной?" - в Праге". AZG Daily. 11 July 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
3. "Фильм Чалдраняна "Глас вопиющего..." – лучший армянский фильм за последние 20 лет". Radio Azatutyun (Radio Free Europe). 19 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.