Ovanes Torosyan (

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: Ованес Торосян; born 7 December 1986) is a

film and stage actor, theater director and playwright of Armenian origin.

Career

In 1993, because of the military conflict in

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, his family settled in

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

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. He went to 76 school "

William Saroyan William Saroyan (; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film ''The ...

" in Sofia. He graduated in acting from National Academy for Theater and Film Arts, Sofia in 2009 in the class of Prof. Plamen Markov and Ivaylo Hristov. In 2016 he graduated theater directing at National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. Ovanes Torosyan is a co-founder of Theater "Replica" in Sofia. He is acting on stage with

Ivan Vazov National Theatre The Ivan Vazov National Theatre ( bg, Народен театър „Иван Вазов“, ') is Bulgaria's national theatre, as well as the oldest and most authoritative theatre in the country and one of the important landmarks of Sofia, the ...

in Sofia, Drama theater "Stefan Kirov" in

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, Satirical Theater "Aleko Konstantinov", Modern Theatre, Theatre Workshop "Sfumato", Red House, Youth Theatre "Nikolay Binev" and theater "Azaryan". Ovanes Torosian deals with documentary,

improvisational theater Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, a ...

and directing.

Filmography

Awards

*In 2010 he was nominated for "Icar" in the "debut" in the role of Michael in "Puheniyat" ("The Pillowman"). *"Golden Rose" (2010) for Best Supporting Actor in "Eastern Plays" and "Tilt" *Award of the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers (2010) for Best Supporting Actor in "Tilt" *Award of the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers (2011) for Best Actor in "Ave" *Tashkend IFF (2012) - Golden Guepard for Best Actor in "Ave"

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Torosyan, Ovanes 1986 births Living people Bulgarian male film actors 21st-century Bulgarian male actors Bulgarian male television actors Male actors from Sofia Bulgarian people of Armenian descent