Serge Avédikian
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Chicken with Plums
as Le père d'Irâne 2011
Secret Agents
as Igor Lipovsky 2004
Army of Crime
as Micha Aznavourian 2009
Dangerous Moves
as Fadenko 1984
The Crossing
as Jon (voice) 2021
Mother
as Vaksen Papasian 1991
Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
as Armenak 2015
We Were One Man
as Guy Rouveron 1979
The Red Sweater
as Christian Ranucci 1979
Armenia
as Vanig 2006
In the Name of Blood
as Père Alexandre 2025
The Stolen Diary
as André 1993
Viva Algeria
as Monsieur Fares 2004
Parajanov
as Parajanov 2013
Treasure of the Bitch Islands
as Le docteur Turc 1990
Entre vents et marées
as Santi 2014
By Then
1997