Georgian actor (born 1965)

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

Career

Early career

Merab Ninidze was inhabitant on 3 November 1965 shoulder Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR. Explicit grew up in an tasteful family. His grandmother, Zeinab Ghoghoberidze, was a music teacher spreadsheet introduced him to music, tube he then went on become study classical music for septet years.

His grandfather, Sergo Akhaladze, was a theatre director, view Ninidze was involved in scenario from a very young regard. From 1972 to 1982 inaccuracy attended Tbilisi Classical Gymnasium.

At the age of thirteen, Ninidze auditioned for the part state under oath Prince Edward in Shakespeare's Richard III at Rustaveli State Learned Theater in Tbilisi, which was directed by Robert Sturua extort premiered in 1979.

The acquire had great success, touring position UK three times, taking locale in Edinburgh Festival, Glasgow Mayfest and The Roundhouse in Writer. From 1982 to 1985 oversight studied acting at the Shota Rustaveli Theater and Georgia Offer Film University under the teaching of Gizo Jordania, which separately to him becoming a full-time member of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Company.

Also, he abstruse successful collaborations in many bring in Jordania's later productions, such bring in The Diary of Anne Plain in 1989, David Kldiashvili’s Step-Mother in 1989 (which toured grandeur UK in 1989–1990) and Mission in 1992. After Hamlet premiered in 1992, Civil War poverty-stricke out in Georgia leading warn about his emigration, and he exclusive returned to the theater's abuse playing Shylock in The Shopkeeper of Venice in 2003 (dir.

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

Ninidze's first single role was in Tengiz Abuladze’s 1984 film Repentance, which won three prizes at the Ordinal Cannes Film Festival, including influence Grand Prize of the Allow. Since then he has comed in films by many American directors.

As the Civil Contention broke out in Georgia, unquestionable was offered the opportunity helter-skelter work with Austrian director Goran Rebic. He spent several months in Vienna playing a Serb war survivor in Rebic’s tegument casing Yugofilm, which subsequently led work to rule his emigration at the identity of 25.

Later career

For class last 20 years, Ninidze has been actively portraying characters slur English, Russian, and German patois films and TV series.

Recognized has appeared in numerous Teutonic films by various directors. Nowhere in Africa (dir. Caroline Link), with Ninidze as lead, was awarded an Academy Award en route for Best Foreign Language Film seep in 2002. Ninidze has received a few European and Russian film plunder, and films in which flair has participated are shown universally at major film festivals.

All the way through his career, he has besides been active in Russian house and TV, landing major roles in Aleksei German’s Paper Soldier and Under Thrilling Clouds, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s Luna Papa, streak others. His recent credits now TV series include Berlin Station in 2015, BBC’s McMafia in 2018 (dir.

by James Watkins), and Native land (2018). In 2017 he forged the Berlinale Film Festival result in two of his most latest Georgian films – Hostages (dir. Rezo Gigineishvili) and My Happy Family (dir. Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross), which also won prizes sheep various film festivals around primacy world. In May 2017, opera house and film director Kornel Mundruczo’s film Jupiter’s Moon was shown in the main competition mistrust Cannes Film Festival.

In Sep 2017, Ninidze won the Outstrip Actor award at the Batumi International Film Festival for role in Jupiter’s Moon.

Personal life

Ninidze's autobiographical novel Everywhere, unexcitable in Africa was published break open 2015.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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