| Sergey Gazarov | |
| Birth Name: | Sergey Ishkhani Gazarov |
| Birth Date: | 13 January 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship: | Soviet Union Russia |
| Occupation: | Actor, filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, film producer |
| Yearsactive: | 1980–present |
| Awards: | Golden Eagle Award (2007) |
Sergey Ishkanovich Gazarov (Russian: Сергей Ишханович Газаров, ; born January 13, 1958) is a Russian and former Soviet actor and filmmaker of Armenian origin.
He has been the art director of the Moscow Satire Theatre from 2021 to 2024.[1] [2]
Gazarov was born in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, in an Armenian family.[3]
In 1980, he graduated from the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, where he had been taught by Oleg Tabakov.[4] After graduating, Gazarov joined the Sovremennik Theatre. In 1991, he put up a play based on The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. In the same year, Gazarov was awarded the Russia's Union of Theatre Workers prize for his direction.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as head director of the Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Moscow Drama Theatre.[5] [6]