Vardan petrosyan biography of michael

Actor, scriptwriter, parodist

Vardan Petrosyan (born February 27, 1959;^[2]Armenian: Վարդան Պետրոսյան) is an Armenian actor, scriptwriter, and parodist.^[3] He is based in Paris and Yerevan and holds a dual Armenian and French nationality.^[4] Petrosyan is widely considered one of the greatest contemporary Armenian actors,^[5] touching various issues such as the Armenian genocide, Armenian politics and foreign affairs in his performances.^[2]

Biography

Vardan Petrosyan was born on February 27, 1959, in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.

He graduated from the Terlemezian Art College in 1983. His father died in 1981, when he was 22 years old. After a two-year service in the Soviet Army, he returned to Yerevan in 1985 to establish—with Vahram Sahakian—the private theatre studio called Vozniner (Ոզնիներ, "Hedgehogs"). Between 1988 and 1992, when the Karabakh movement was in progress, Petrosyan wrote and staged several polit