Loreta Hairapedian Tabrizi ( hy, Լորետա Հայրապետեան;

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stage and film actress.

Biography

Loreta was born as Loreta Hairapedian Tabrizi in 1911 in Tehran. Following a succession of roles in performances of

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directed by Vahram Arsen Papazian, she married the well-known stage director Abdolhossein Noushin and later joined the Iran Club of Theater. There, she appeared in grand scale performances of such plays as ''Othello'', ''Volpone'', ''The Blue Bird'' and ''Gas Light''. In 1933, she married Abdol Hossein Noushin. In 1953 Loreta traveled abroad together with her husband following the 1953 coup d'etát, and the couple lived in

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for several years, where they both entered education; Loreta entered the acting school of the

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( Moscow Art Theatre), while her husband studied for a PhD in philology at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. When the couple returned to Iran after several years, Loreta broke into films and made six films the first of which was ''The Night of Execution'' (Davoud Mollapour, 1970). The list includes the co-production ''Bride of Fortune'' and

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's ''The Mystery of The Treasure of The Valley of The Genies'' al well. Her only TV series was ''Khosrov-Mirza II'' (

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). Loreta left Iran in 1979 together with her only son from her marriage with Noushin, and went to live in Vienna, Austria, where she died on 29 March 1998.

Filmography

# 1971 Subah-o-Shyam # 1972 The Triple Bed # 1974 Asrar ganj dareheye jenni

Television

# 1977 Khosrow Mirza-ye dovom (TV Mini-Series)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Loreta 1911 births 1998 deaths Actresses from Tehran Iranian film actresses Iranian stage actresses Iranian theatre directors Iranian women theatre directors Ethnic Armenian actresses Iranian emigrants to Austria Iranian television actresses Iranian expatriates in Austria 20th-century Iranian actresses Moscow State University alumni Moscow Art Theatre School alumni Iranian people of Armenian descent Austrian people of Armenian descent