Armen B. Dzhigarkhanyan (genus. People's Artist of the USSR. Laureate of 2 State Prizes of the Armenian SSR.
One of the founders and artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater under the leadership of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
There are many interesting facts in the biography of Dzhigarkhanyan, which we will tell about in this article.
So, before you is a short biography of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Biography of Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was born on October 3, 1935 in Yerevan. His parents were Boris Akimovich and his wife Elena Vasilievna. The actor has 2 half-sisters - Marina and Gayane.
Childhood and youth
When Armen was only about a month old, his father left the family. Later, the mother remarried, as a result of which the stepfather was involved in raising the boy.
It is worth noting that Dzhigarkhanyan had an excellent relationship with his stepfather.
Armen's mother was a member of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR. She loved theater very much, as a result of which she attended all performances. It was she who instilled in her son a love of theatrical art.
After graduating from school, Dzhigarkhanyan left for Moscow, where he wanted to enter GITIS. However, having failed the exams, he returned home again. After that, the 17-year-old boy got a job as an assistant cameraman at the “Armenfilm” studio.
A couple of years later, Armen entered the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute, having studied there for 4 years.
Theatre
For the first time, Dzhigarkhanyan entered the theater stage when he was still in his first year of study at the university. He took part in the play "Ivan Rybakov", which was staged on the stage of the Yerevan Russian Drama Theater. Here he will work for the next 12 years.
Over time, Armen met Anatoly Efros, who in 1967 was the director of Lenkom. He immediately discerned talent in the Armenian, and then offered him a place in his troupe.
In "Lenkom" the guy worked for about 2 years, after which he took part in the performances of the V. Mayakovsky Theater. Here he worked until the mid-90s.
Later Dzhigarkhanyan formed his own "Theater" D "", which he heads to this day. Over the years of his creative biography, he played in more than fifty performances, transforming himself into a variety of characters.
Films
The film debut of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan took place in the film "Collapse" (1959), in which he got the small role of the worker Hakob. A few years later, he starred in the drama "Hello, It's Me!", Which brought him great fame.
In subsequent years, Dzhigarkhanyan participated in the filming of "Operation Trust", "New Adventures of the Elusive" and "White Explosion".
In the 70s, viewers saw the artist in such famous films as "Hello, I'm your aunt!", "Dog in the manger" and "The meeting place cannot be changed." All these works are now considered classics of Russian cinema.
In the next decade, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan continued to actively act in popular films. He has appeared in about 50 films, among which the most iconic were Tehran-43, The Life of Klim Samgin and The City of Zero.
In the 90s, Dzhigarkhanyan's filmography was replenished with such projects as "One Hundred Days Before the Order", "Shirley-Myrli", "Queen Margo" and many others. In parallel with this, the man taught acting at VGIK in the status of a professor.
In the new century, Armen Borisovich continued to act in films and enter the theater stage. In 2008, he tried himself as a director, staging the play "One Thousand and One Nights of Shahrazada".
Dzhigarkhanyan became one of the most filmed actors (over 250 roles in film projects) and, according to rumors, was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the most filmed domestic artist. However, there is no such information on the official website of the Guinness Book of Records.
In 2016, Armen was forced to suspend filming due to health problems. In early March, he was urgently taken to the clinic with suspected heart attack.
Personal life
Dzhigarkhanyan's first wife was actress Alla Vannovskaya, with whom he lived in an unregistered marriage. It is curious that he was 14 years older than his beloved, who left her husband for him.
In this union, the girl Elena was born, who in the future also became an actress. Soon after the birth of the child, Vannovskaya developed chorea, a syndrome characterized by erratic and abrupt movements similar to dance.
The wife began to show aggression and causeless suspicion. This led to the fact that Dzhigarkhanyan had to take his daughter and file for a divorce. In 1966, Alla died in a mental hospital.
Unfortunately, Elena, like her mother, also suffered from chorea. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning, falling asleep in the car running in the garage.
The second time Armen married actress Tatyana Vlasova, who had a son Stepan from a previous marriage. The couple did not have common children. After 48 years of marriage, the couple decided to leave on the initiative of Dzhigarkhanyan.
In 2014, it became known that the artist had a 35-year-old mistress, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. The girl was a pianist, and since 2015 she has been the director of Theater D. The couple became husband and wife in early 2016.
A year and a half later, a scandal erupted in the family of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. The man accused his wife of theft and filed for divorce. In turn, the girl argued that all the accusations against her were groundless.
The divorce proceedings ended in November 2017.A couple of years later, Dzhigarkhanyan announced that he was living with Tatyana Vlasova again. He also said that he would grow old with this woman.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan today
In 2018, the actor's health deteriorated markedly. After suffering a heart attack, he was in a coma for some time, but the doctors managed to help Armen get out of it.
In the same year, Dzhigarkhanyan was diagnosed with a viral infection, and was also diagnosed with a hypertensive crisis and neuralgia.
Armen Borisovich can hardly move, but, as before, continues to lead the “D Theater”. He appears at the theater almost every day and tries to attend all its premieres.
Today, on many television programs, the topic of Dzhigarkhanyan's divorce from Vitalina continues to be discussed. One part of the people fully supports the actor, while the other takes the side of the girl.
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