Sergey Ishkanovich Gazarov (Russian: Сергей Ишханович Газаров, Armenian: Սերգեյ Իշխանի Գազարով, romanized: Sergey Ishkhani Gazarov; born January 13, 1958) is a Russian and former Soviet actor and filmmaker of Armenian origin.
He has been the art director of the Moscow Satire Theatre from 2021 to 2024.
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Biography
Gazarov was born in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, in an Armenian family.
In 1980, he graduated from the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, where he had been taught by Oleg Tabakov. After graduating, Gazarov joined the Sovremennik Theatre. In 1991, he put up a play based on The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. In the same year, Gazarov was awarded the Russia's Union of Theatre Workers prize for his direction.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as head director of the Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Moscow Drama Theatre.
Selected filmography
Actor
Family Relations (1981) as Kirill's guest
Jaguar (1986) as Lieutenant Gamboa
The Gambler (1989) as Shota
Entrance to the Labyrinth (1989) as Omar Sharifovich Ramazanov
The Executioner (1990) as Igor Pogodin
Taxi Blues (1990) as the Administrator
Nikolai Vavilov (1990) as Isaak Prezent
Deadly Force 5 (2003) as Vazgen/Jean
My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004) as Edik
The Turkish Gambit (2005) as Yūsuf Pasha
Rabbit Over the Void (2006) as the Gipsy baron
12 (2007) as the 7th Juror
The Apocalypse Code (2007) as the oligarch
Kiss Through a Wall (2011) as Victor Pilsudsky
The Spy (2011) as Lavrentiy Beria
August Eighth (2012) as Kirill Ivanovich
Love Does Not Love (2014) as Mikhail Andreyevich
Flight Crew (2016) as Pyotr Shestakov
After You're Gone (2016) as Sergey
The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (2018) as Ashot
Director
Inspector (1996)
Empire Under Attack (2000)
