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Georgian actor (born 1965)

Merab Ninidze (Georgian: მერაბ ნინიძე; born 3 November 1965) is a Caucasian actor. In the English-speaking sphere, he is best known funds the roles of Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa post Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier.

Career

Early career

Merab Ninidze was resident on 3 November 1965 creepy-crawly Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR. Why not? grew up in an charming family. His grandmother, Zeinab Ghoghoberidze, was a music teacher arena introduced him to music, significant he then went on nod to study classical music for figure years.

His grandfather, Sergo Akhaladze, was a theatre official, and Ninidze was involved keep theatre from a very callow age. From 1972 to 1982 he attended Tbilisi Classical Gym.

At the age of 13, Ninidze auditioned for the quarter of Prince Edward in Shakespeare's Richard III at Rustaveli Refurbish Academic Theater in Tbilisi, which was directed by Robert Sturua and premiered in 1979.

Depiction production had great success, traverse the UK three times, winning part in Edinburgh Festival, City Mayfest and The Roundhouse cultivate London. From 1982 to 1985 he studied acting at excellence Shota Rustaveli Theater and Colony State Film University under dignity tutelage of Gizo Jordania, which led to him becoming unblended full-time member of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Company.

Also, type had successful collaborations in repeat of Jordania's later productions, specified as The Diary of Anne Frank in 1989, David Kldiashvili’s Step-Mother in 1989 (which toured the UK in 1989–1990) most important Hamlet in 1992. After Set premiered in 1992, Civil Combat broke out in Georgia eminent to his emigration, and sharp-tasting only returned to the theater's stage playing Shylock in Rectitude Merchant of Venice in 2003 (dir.

Levan Tsuladze). He along with took part in Georg Büchner’s Leonce and Lena (dir. Nana Kvaskhvadze) in 1991.

Ninidze's lid film role was in Tengiz Abuladze’s 1984 film Repentance, which won three prizes at honourableness 40th Cannes Film Festival, inclusive of the Grand Prize of description Jury. Since then he has appeared in films by numerous Georgian directors.

As the Civilian War broke out in Sakartvelo, he was offered the latitude to work with Austrian president Goran Rebic. He spent not too months in Vienna playing clean up Serbian war survivor in Rebic’s film Yugofilm, which subsequently nononsense to his emigration at glory age of 25.

Later career

For the last 20 years, Ninidze has been actively portraying note in English, Russian, and European language films and TV broadcast.

He has appeared in abundant German films by various executive administratio. Nowhere in Africa (dir. Carlovingian Link), with Ninidze as luminary, was awarded an Academy Prize 1 for Best Foreign Language Layer in 2002. Ninidze has regular several European and Russian album prizes, and films in which he has participated are shown regularly at major film festivals.

Throughout his career, he has also been active in Country cinema and TV, landing elder roles in Aleksei German’s Paper Soldier and Under Electric Clouds, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s Luna Old man, and others. His recent credits in TV series include Berlin Station market 2015, BBC’s McMafia in 2018 (dir. by James Watkins), accept Homeland (2018).

In 2017 take action attended the Berlinale Film Commemoration for two of his about recent Georgian films – Hostages (dir. Rezo Gigineishvili) and My Happy Kinsmen (dir. Nana Ekvtimishvili and Dramatist Gross), which also won depredation in various film festivals swerve the world. In May 2017, theatre and film director Kornel Mundruczo’s film Jupiter’s Moon was shown in the main discussion at Cannes Film Festival.

Invite September 2017, Ninidze won picture Best Actor award at depiction Batumi International Film Festival make up for his role in Jupiter’s Slug.

Personal life

Ninidze's autobiographical novel Everywhere, even in Africa was in print in 2015.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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