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In Memoriam: Renowned actor Sos Sargsyan would turn 87 years old today

In Memoriam: Renowned actor Sos Sargsyan would turn 87 years old today

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Renowned Armenian actor, playwright, People’s Artist and political activist Sos Sargsyan would turn 87 years old today.

Sos Sargsyan was born in Stevanavan, in the Lori Region of Armenia and moved to Yerevan in 1948 and worked as an actor in Armenia’s Youth Theater.

He graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute in 1954. From 1954 he performed at the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan.

In 1992 he established and until his death in 2013 headed the Hamazkayin Theater.

From 1997 to 2005 he was the director of Yerevan Institute of Theater and Cinema. From 2006 until his death he served as a member of the board of directors of the institute.

Throughout his brilliant career, Sargsyan has starred in more than 40 films and has worked in the Russian cinema, most notably in the 1972 film, Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

In 2000, His Holiness Karekin II awarded Sargsyan the Armenian Apostolic Church’s St. Sahag-St. Mesrob medal, honoring the actor’s extraordinary 70-year career in the arts.

He is famous for his roles in such Armenian classics at “Gikor,” “Dzori Miron,” “Khatabala” and “Menk enk, Mer Sarere.”

Sos Sargsyan passed away at the age of 84 in 2013.








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