Biography
Close relatives admit that Laura Keosayan is an absolute continuation of the dynasty. The actress inherited independence and one hundred percent confidence that she was doing the right thing. And even if you have to fall painfully, there are still more winning situations.
Laura Keosayan
Thanks to this, Laura says, she earned the attention of the public. The only family trait we have to fight is sensitivity. Even the men in the Keosayan family are sometimes moved to tears, and it doesn’t matter what words are spoken - criticism or praise.
Childhood and youth
Laura Davidovna Keosayan was born into a very famous and creative Moscow family. The grandfather of the future actress Edmond Keosayan, a famous director, was known throughout the country. Few people have not seen his cult film “The Elusive Avengers”. Her grandmother was also a famous person, in whose honor the future actress received her name. Laura Gevorkyan acted in the 70s and 80s. Many people remember Gevorkyan from the film “Somewhere an Oriole is Crying...”. And who doesn’t know Laura’s uncle – Tigran Keosayan, who directed “Poor Sasha”, “The Hare over the Abyss” and “Silver Lily of the Valley”.
Laura Keosayan as a child with her parents, grandparents and uncle
No less familiar to viewers is Dad David Keosayan, who directed the wonderful melodrama “The Three Half-Graces.” Mother Anaida is an artist who devoted herself to children (Laura has a brother Edmond) and creating home comfort. The wedding of the artist’s parents was preceded by the kidnapping of the bride: David simply did not want to wait another year for the celebration.
Laura Keosayan was destined to appear on screen, but the girl herself, with all the love and respect for her family, did not plan to be an actress. Although at the age of 13 Laura was involved in Igor Sarukhanov’s video “Fox Violin”, filmed by Tigran Keosayan.
Igor Sarukhanov - “Fox Violin”
But the plans of the future artist were connected with another profession that did not involve publicity. The girl wanted to study as an economist. My parents accepted this with joy, especially my dad, who believed that the Keosayan family already had too many relatives who connected their fate with the film industry.
After graduating from school, Laura Keosayan, as planned, entered MGIMO, choosing economics. But soon I was surprised to discover that the world of numbers was becoming more and more boring and uninteresting. The girl realized that she had made a mistake in choosing a profession. But cinema, on the contrary, began to attract me. Then Laura decided to try to change direction.
Actress Laura Keosayan
The father was most upset. Therefore, the daughter obediently “held out” until the end of her studies at MGIMO and only then decided to enter a theater university. I chose the Shchukin Institute for myself. I entered there at the age of 22 and passed without any difficulties.
Biography[edit | edit code]
Laura Keosayan was born on February 8, 1982 in Moscow, into a family of filmmakers.
As a child, she lived in India for five years, where her father David Edmondovich Keosayan worked[1]. He represented Sovexportfilm there.
Laura's acting career began at the age of six, when her grandfather, the famous Soviet director and screenwriter Edmond Keosayan, cast her in a cameo role in the feature drama “Ascension” (1988)[2].
In 1997, at the age of fifteen, Laura played the complex dramatic role of a Jewish girl who went through the genocide of Jews in Poland, in the video clip for the song “Fiddle Violin” (the original title of the song was “The Creak of the Wheel”; music by Igor Sarukhanov, lyricist - Alexander Novikov) Russian singer and composer Igor Sarukhanov. The video was shot by Laura’s uncle, film director and video maker Tigran Keosayan, who, at the end of filming, told his niece: “Someday you can become a wonderful artist.” But after working in this video, Laura felt like an adult beyond her age and swore off being an actress, since filming was very difficult for her, a teenager, both physically and emotionally[3][4][5].
In 2004, she graduated from the Institute of Foreign Economic Relations (IVER) of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO MFA of the Russian Federation) with a degree in marketing with a qualification of “economist”[5]. While studying in her fifth year at the IVES MGIMO, Laura suddenly realized that she was very unhappy. Therefore, on the day of defending my diploma, immediately after the state exams, despite the protests of my relatives, I went to audition for “Pike” and the Moscow Art Theater School [1][2][5].
In 2008, she graduated from the acting department of the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute (the artistic director of the course is Vladimir Vladimirovich Ivanov) [6], and in the same year she was accepted into the troupe of the State Academic Theater named after E. B. Vakhtangov [1].
Since 2011, she has collaborated with the Moscow theater “C. A.D.”, in which she performed in the play “Arcadia” based on the play of the same name by Tom Stoppard, directed by Irina Pakhomova[7].
She starred in feature films and television series: “Code of Honor 2” (2004), “Mistress” (2005), “Commercial Break” (2005), “Love on a Knife’s Edge” (2007), “Girl” (2008), “Sklifosovsky "(2012-2013), "Juna" (2015)[8] and others.
According to media reports on September 17, 2020, after filming the leading role in the multi-part television feature film “Juna,” Laura Keosayan was urgently hospitalized for treatment at a specialized clinic, where cosmetologists spent several months tidying up her skin. The reason for the emergency intervention of specialists was the repeated forced aging of the young actress’s face using a special Hollywood glue, which tightens the skin and makes it wrinkled, which could lead not just to big problems with the actress’s skin, but also to intoxication of her entire body [5] [9][ 10].
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- Grandfather - Edmond Gareginovich Keosayan (October 9, 1936 - April 21, 1994), Soviet film director, screenwriter, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1976).
- Grandmother - Laura Ashotovna Gevorkyan (Keosayan) (born January 28, 1939), Soviet and Armenian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1979).
- Father - David Edmondovich Keosayan (born April 10, 1961), Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Mother - Anaida Keosayan, artist. She left her profession and devoted herself to her family and children.
- Brother - Edmond Davidovich Keosayan (born 1987), administrator on the set[2].
- Uncle - Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (born January 4, 1966), Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, music video director and TV presenter.
- Husband - Ivan Alekseevich Rudakov (born October 19, 1978), Russian theater and film actor, director[2]. Laura and Ivan met on the set of the television series “Gypsy Coming Out” (2008). The couple are divorced (as of June 23, 2014), but maintain friendly relations[5][11]. Daughter - Seraphima (born 2011)[2][5]. Seraphima's godmother is actress Ekaterina Vulichenko[11].
Movies
Laura’s film debut took place at the age of 5 in her grandfather’s last film, “Resurrection.” In his biographical film, Edmond talked about the period he spent with his mother and brothers in a Siberian village, when the family was fleeing the Armenian genocide.
After finishing “Pike,” Laura Keosayan immediately entered the service at the Vakhtangov Theater. The actress's first role on stage was Freken Bock in Zhanna Zherdera's entreprise musical "Carlson". This was followed by several more notable works, including the performances “White Acacia”, “Balagan” and “Coast of Women”.
Ivan Rudakov and Laura Keosayan in the film “Gypsy Coming Out”
However, fame came to Laura only after appearing in films. While still a student, Keosayan acted a lot, first appearing as a secretary in the detective story “The Mistress” and the gypsy Ligita in her father’s film “Gypsy Girl with a Way Out.”
Uncle Tigran Ligita did not approve at first, saying that she did not study with Vladimir Ivanov himself in order to start with gypsies. But then, after watching the series, I kept asking if there would be a continuation. Laura regarded such interest as the highest praise, and the strictest viewer, her mother, also liked the work.
Laura Keosayan in the film “Love on a Knife’s Edge”
In the dramatic film “Love on a Knife’s Edge,” the actress played Laura Sarkisova. The heroine's grandfather, an authoritative lawyer played by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, is busy investigating the murder of a popular journalist. And only at the end of the film it turns out that the crime was committed by the beloved granddaughter.
Then there was an episode in “The Three Half-Graces” - that’s what one old man called the heroines Daria Drozdovskaya, Alena Khmelnitskaya and Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film.
Laura Keosayan in the series “Turkish March”
The artist’s credits include the role of Asya in the film “Code of Honor” and Marina in “Turkish March: The Last Marshal.” Successful for Keosayan was her work in the melodrama “Loving Do Not Renounce,” in which the character of Laura became the object of Ivan Rudakov’s fleeting infatuation.
The plot centers on the heroism of civil aviation pilots who saved passengers in an emergency, and the loyalty of women waiting for the return of their loved ones when there was no longer any hope. The audience also remembered Laura as the performer of the song “Don’t Fly Away” that sounds in the film.
Laura Keosayan - “Don’t Fly Away”
2010 was a particularly generous year for Laura Keosayan. This period brought the actress the role of Lera in the film “The Only Man” and work in the TV series “The Mysterious Tomorrow of Fate,” in which she again played a gypsy who predicted the future for the main characters. They were immediately followed by the series “Faith, Hope, Love” and “Moscow. Central District-3".
The most significant role in Laura Keosayan’s creative biography was the role of anesthesiologist Emma Lusparyan in the popular serial film “Sklifosovsky”, where the main character was played by Maxim Averin. Real fame fell on the artist, and they began to recognize her on the street.
Laura Keosayan on the set of the series “Sklifosovsky”
Things weren’t going so well for the actress in the theater, especially after the birth of her child. Laura left the Vakhtangov Theater and moved to the chamber “S.A.D.” Keosayan admitted to the press that in the previous theater she had no roles, and therefore no prospects. The actress decided that there was no need to waste time and wait for work in a repertory theater when she could regularly perform on the stage of an independent one. Laura works with old friends; the artist likes the atmosphere and self-sufficiency of the theater. For the play "Arcadia" she helped sew costumes.
At the end of September 2020, the broadcast of the series “Juna,” which viewers had long been waiting for, began on the screens of central television channels. For Laura Keosayan this is a huge event, because she plays the main role here - the healer Juna Davitashvili.
Laura Keosayan in the TV series “Juna”
To get used to the image of a famous woman, Keosayan studied her biography, learned about all the habits, preferences and manners of the psychic.
Laura was lucky to meet Davitashvili once. Juna learned about a film that began filming during the healer’s lifetime. The fortuneteller wished to meet with the artists. She glanced at Keosayan and immediately asked if she was going to “play Juna.” The women talked about various topics, and, according to the artist, after this conversation she left the room a different person. Keosayan also realized that the film and role would be the best in her acting biography.
Laura Keosayan as Juna
It was originally planned that two actresses would play Jun at 20 and at 50, but Laura expressed a desire to reflect not a fragment of the healer’s biography, but her whole life. Keosayan reproduced Juna’s plasticity and manner of speech and convinced the film crew that she could handle the role alone.
For the second part of the plot - with an aged psychic - the makeup artist stocked up on a special cosmetic glue that tightened the skin, giving the visual effect of age-related wrinkles. Safety precautions required using the glue no more than three days in a row with a break of more than a day after use, which the filming schedule did not allow.
Laura Keosayan
After 2 weeks, the make-up artist informed the director that she was harming the actress’s skin and asked to suspend filming. The director, worried not only about Keosayan’s appearance, but also about Keosayan’s life (the makeup caused intoxication of the body), was ready to agree to a break, but Laura refused to stop working and played to the end.
Immediately after filming was completed, Keosayan began to restore her skin and urgently underwent a course of treatment. The intervention started on time. The treatment at the cosmetic clinic attracted the attention of the press. The media was full of headlines on the topic “Keosayayan plastic surgery - before and after,” citing photos of Laura with and without Juna’s age makeup as an example of changes in the actress’s face.
Laura Keosayan in the film “Sea. Mountains. Expanded clay"
Some fans are sure that the actress had plastic surgery before filming the series. Viewers noticed a characteristic change in the shape of the eyes and swelling when Keosayan appeared on the “Let Them Talk” program, and assumed that the woman had undergone an endoscopic midzone lift. The actress does not comment on rumors about plastic surgery.
In the film “Mannequin” Laura played one of the catwalk beauties, in the biographical film about spaceship designer Sergei Korolev “Chief” - the wife of his colleague, rocket engine developer Valentin Glushko.
Laura Keosayan in the film "Mannequin"
In 2020, a 4-episode melodrama starring Laura, “My Favorite Mother-in-Law,” was released. This is a touching story about women of two generations, whose attitude to life and their own role in it is changed by love. The film, according to the creators, is inspired by the Soviet film “For Family Reasons” with Marina Dyuzheva and Galina Polskikh. These actresses in “My Beloved Mother-in-Law” were joined by Kristina Babushkina, Galina Petrova, Konstantin Solovyov.
Laura Keosyan before and after plastic surgery: photos
Makeup
Laura played one of the main roles in the series “Juna”, it became known that after filming she suffered skin damage and poisoning. Make-up artists created the image for the actress using glue to tighten her face.
Long-term use of glue caused inflammation and led to swelling, as well as poisoning of the body. The actress was taken to the hospital, where the girl was recovering, and cosmetologists were involved in restoring her appearance. Many fans of the actress suspect that she had plastic surgery.
All operations
But not everyone agrees that plastic surgery has improved the girl’s appearance. A facelift, a nose job, correction of wrinkles using botulinum toxin, and after all this users are heatedly discussing that the girl began to look ten, or maybe twenty, years older. Subscribers began commenting on the girl’s photos, saying that she looked older and that after rhinoplasty, her nose wings were no longer seven-fold.
Photos before and after
Comparing old photographs, one can notice that now the girl’s lip proportions have changed, the upper lip has become larger, which visually reduces the distance from the nose to the upper lip. The comments also agree about the girl’s eyes; after the intervention of plastic surgeons, oriental eyes have changed very much.
Such results are possible due to poor quality work, because the skin is stretched, the areas of the eyes, eyebrows, legs, lips, and chin are not perfected.
The actress stopped appearing on television, which raised questions and at the same time answers. Many people began to write that during this time she changed her appearance with the help of plastic surgery. But the actress herself does not confirm plastic surgery.
True fans of Laura Keosayan believe that she is simply waiting for a real and worthwhile project. Who will be successful and will delight you with his acting.
Personal life
Laura first fell in love at the age of 15. This happened while I was in America. The object of love was a guy from Ireland. The young people constantly called each other and flew to visit each other. But over time, youthful love dried up.
Laura Keosayan with her ex-husband and daughter
While still a student, while starring in the film “Gypsy Girl Coming Out,” the actress met her colleague Ivan Rudakov. A romance broke out between them. Soon the young people got married, and Laura later gave birth to a daughter, Seraphim.
The actress found out about her pregnancy during the filming of “Sklifosovsky”, so Keosayan’s pregnancy on the screen was real, and not “film”. 3 months after giving birth, the actress returned to filming.
Laura Keosayan with her daughter
In 2013, Laura Keosayan and Ivan Rudakov separated. The actress cites cooled feelings and the changes that have occurred over the years of marriage as the reason for the divorce.
Laura initiated the divorce; her husband supported the actress in this decision and made no claims regarding the property or the child. The former spouses maintain friendly relations and raise their daughter together.
Laura Keosayan on the program “Alone with Everyone”
Later in the interview, Keosayan mentioned the new chosen one, without giving a name. She only said that the man is not connected with cinema and lives in another city, he comes as soon as he has a free minute. On Instagram, the actress has the only photo of an unknown gentleman, in the comments to whom Laura expressed tender feelings. Apparently, the artist is now happy in her personal life.
Career continuation
The actress with Armenian roots gained all-Russian fame in 2007. This happened after the release of the detective drama “Love on a Knife’s Edge.” Keosayan got the main female role in the film. She successfully got used to the image of Laura Sarkisova.
This was followed by an offer to star in the 8-episode melodrama “Gypsy Girl with a Way Out.” Laura carefully studied the script and agreed.
Between 2008 and 2011. the actress starred in several TV series and feature films. Among them we can highlight: “Loving Do Not Renounce”, “The Only Man”, “The Last Romans” and so on.
Laura Keosayan now
In 2020, Laura played the main role in Tigran Keosayan’s comedy melodrama “Crimean Bridge. Made with love!". The project was financed on a competitive basis by the Cinema Fund, Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky confirmed. Previously, the film crew was accused of receiving 100 million rubles without following the necessary procedures.
Laura Keosayan and Tigran Keosayan
The film was called a family contract, since the script belongs to Tigran’s wife, Margarita Simonyan, and the leading role was played by the director’s ex-wife Alena Khmelnitskaya. To top it all off, the producer of the film was David Keosayan.
Laura has already starred with her relatives in the melodrama “The Sea. Mountains. Expanded clay”, which tells about the adventures of residents of a seaside settlement, whose quiet life is disrupted by the construction of Olympic facilities.
Laura Keosayan on the set of the film “Alien Blood” in 2020
In the same year, another story related to gypsies appeared in Laura’s filmography - the dramatic saga “Alien Blood”. The film covers the period from the late 70s to the mid-2000s and begins with the romantic relationship of the heroes Karina Andolenko and Pavel Barshak, a simple girl and a gypsy. Then their children and grandchildren become the focus of the plot. Keosayan received the role of the young man’s sister.
