# Anna Elbakyan

Anna Elbakyan (Armenian: Աննա Աբրահամի Էլբակյան, born September 5, 1963) is an Armenian actress. She became an Armenian star after headlining the drama Where Have You Been, Man of God? (TV mini-series)(1992).

## Biography

* In 1982 she graduated from the Actors Studio of the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan
* In 1986, she graduated from Yerevan State University Faculty of Social Sciences, specialty art
* In 1982 to 1990, 1998 to 2003, and 2008 to present, actress of the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan
* From 2000 to present, actress of the Drama and Comedy Theater after Edgar Elbakyan
* from 2000 to present, director, and from 2005, chief director of the Yerevan State Marionettes Theater
* Member of the Union of Cinematographers of RA
* Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of RA

## Filmography

* The White Bone
* Face-to-wall
* Where have you been, man of God?
* The Thief
* Silhouette
* Yerevan jan
* Tavern
* Elegy
Television
* Irene - "The Eighth Day of the Creator" Kacha.
* Girl - "Detention House Charents" Charents
* Astghik "Higher Hell" by S. Papazian
* Mary - "Ghosts" by E. de Filippo
* Princess - "Crystal Love" L. Ustinov
* Marguerite - "Mefistofele" by S. Aleshin
* Solange - "The Sixth Floor."

## Theatre work
### Actor's work

* Juliet - " Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel.
* Abbey - "Desire Under the Elms" Eugene O'Neill.
* Lyalya - "Dear Elena" Lyudmila Razumovskaya.
* Fanshetta - "Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro" by Pierre de Beaumarchais 1985
* Valya - "The Bride of the North" J. Haroutunian.
* Tatiana - "Finding Joy" Viktor Rozov.
* Baiba - "Blow wind" John Rainis.
* Author - "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" Bertolt Brecht.
* Armanda - "Life of Moliere," Mikhail Bulgakov.
* Elsa - "Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan.
* Agapi - "American adzhabsandal" Agassi Ayvazian.
* Tom, Kitty - "Will you dance with me?" Based on the plays and short stories by William Saroyan.
* Fat - "Red lights" Lily Elbakyan.
* Katherine - "Suddenly, Last Summer" Tennessee Williams.
* Alice - "Play Strindberg" Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
* Maryam - "Belated bird" Author Anna and Armen Elbakyan.
* Elmira - "Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur" by Molière.
* Helen - "Oscar" by Claude Magnier [fr] 1996
* Cordelia - "King Lear" by William Shakespeare 1996
* Agnes - "Bowl of Kindness" by William Saroyan.
* Queen - "The Cave Dwellers" by William Saroyan.
* Willie, Kitty, Jig - "Willie, Kitty, Jig ..." Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan.

### Directing the work

Yerevan State Marionettes Theatre
* "The Princess and the Pea " Hans Christian Andersen 2010
* "Thumbelina" Hans Christian Andersen 2008
* "How brave rooster won a fox" is based on Russian folk tales in 2007
* "Star of Hope" in the Biblical explanation of 2005
* "A true friend" - R. Marukhyan 2002
* "Creation of Peace" based on the Bible in 2002
* "Winter's Tale" - Anna Elbakyan 2000

## Prizes and awards

* 2012 Armenian National Film Academy Award "Hayak" - the Best Actress
* 2011 People of the Year 2010 «LUXURY» - the Best Actress
* 2008 Armenian National Theater Academy Award "Artavazd" - the Best Actress
* 2006 Prize of the Ministry of Culture of RA "Artist" - the Best Actress
* 2005 Armenian National Theater Academy Award "Artavazd" - the Best Actress
* 2001 "Gold Medal" of the Ministry of Culture of RA