Armen Dzhigarkhanyan: filmography, biography, personal life

Childhood and youth

Armen Borisovich was born in Yerevan on October 3, 1935, according to the zodiac sign Libra. Dzhigarkhanyan never hid his nationality and was not ashamed of his origin - he is Armenian.

The boy was the second child in a single-parent family: when Armen was less than six months old, his father left his mother, leaving a daughter and son. The children were raised by their stepfather, whom Armen Borisovich remembers with constant warmth.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in childhood with his mother

After graduating from school, the young man went to Moscow to enroll in acting at GITIS. However, Armen was denied admission due to his accent. The young man returned home, but did not give up and at the age of 17 he began working in cinema as an assistant cameraman. After 2 years, the guy entered the Yerevan Art and Theater Institute. Soon his acting biography began.

The beginning of the way

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was born in Yerevan in October 1935. The actor’s biography testifies to his belonging to an ancient family of Tiflis Armenians. Armen’s own father left the family when his son was barely two months old. The child’s father was replaced by a stepfather, who managed to become a support and example for someone else’s boy.

Dzhigarkhanyan mastered Russian as a child, since his mother and grandmother spoke this language, the latter spent many years in Kuban. The mother insisted that the child attend a Russian school. The woman also managed to instill in her son a love for the theater, since she herself did not miss a single premiere. Already in his teens, he began to dream about an acting career, fame and fans.

Personal life

Little is known about the actor’s first wife. Armen Borisovich's wife's name was Alla Vannovskaya, they served together at the Yerevan Russian Drama Theater. The actress was 14 years older than Dzhigarkhanyan; for the sake of her beloved, she left her first family. The couple was married for less than a decade; they had a daughter, Elena. After giving birth, it turned out that Alla had a serious mental disorder. She became jealous and aggressive. The actor was forced to take his daughter and file for divorce.

Dzhigarkhanyan met his second wife shortly before moving to Moscow; Tatyana Vlasova had just moved to Yerevan from Russia. At the theater she worked as the head of the literary department. The couple got married in Moscow. Tatyana adopted her daughter Lena, and the actor became a stepfather to Stepan, Vlasova’s son from his first marriage. The couple had no children together.

By the end of the 90s, there were changes in Armen’s personal life; the actor bought his wife a house in the USA, where she moved. The artist visited Tatiana 2 times a year, but soon these visits stopped.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya
In 2014, it became known that the actor had a new love - 35-year-old Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, previously a music director, and since June 2015 - director of Theater “D”. The couple formalized their relationship on February 25, 2020.

In October 2017, a scandal broke out in the artist’s family. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan filed for divorce from Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. In court, the actor said that his wife had committed theft, but the woman denied it.

Previously, the couple seemed incredibly happy; they were inseparable both at home and at work. The husband trusted Vitalina in everything, for her sake he left his former wife and transferred almost his entire fortune to a new one, and also gave his theater to the board (she became its director). From that moment on, not a single decision was made without Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Tatyana Vlasova

In 2020, Vitalina made a sensational confession that her husband was allegedly kidnapped and now they want to seize the theater. The woman said that Armen had been ill for a long time and was not aware of his actions. Dzhigarkhanyan’s wife told all this to the host of the “Let Them Talk” program, Dmitry Borisov, who subsequently found the artist in the capital’s hospital. He allowed only close people to come to him, and his young wife was not among them.

According to the actor, because of her he lost his apartment and access to the theater. This was the last straw that prompted Dzhigarkhanyan to file for divorce.

In September 2020, it became known that the artist returned to his wife Tatyana Vlasova. For this purpose, the woman specially came to Moscow to be close to the artist and look after him. As Dzhigarkhanyan put it, “we will grow old together.”

News about the life and work of Armen Borisovich is posted in the artist’s fan group on Facebook. There, fans publish photos of the star from different years. There is also such a page on Instagram, but the artist does not have an official website.

New love

In 2014, the whole world learned that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was thinking about a third marriage. His chosen one was Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, whose professional activity is directly related to the theater. The lovers were not embarrassed by the significant age difference (Vitalina is several decades younger than the actor). At first, the third marriage of the Russian film star was civil. In 2020, Armen Borisovich officially married his beloved.

Of course, this act caused disapproval among many of his friends and relatives. Some made attempts to dissuade the actor from making a hasty decision. However, Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina decided to ignore attempts to destroy their relationship.

Movies

His film debut was a cameo role in the film “Collapse” in 1959; this appearance on the screen went almost unnoticed by the world of the film industry. In 1966, the premiere of the film “Hello, it’s me!” took place, which brought Dzhigarkhanyan all-Union fame. This is a dramatic story about a young scientist, war, love and misunderstanding.

In his youth, the actor’s popularity grew day by day, real fame awaited the performer after expanding his filmography with the films “Hello, I’m your aunt!”, “Dog in the manger,” “The meeting place cannot be changed” and two parts of the sequel “The Elusive Avengers” - “New adventures of the elusive" and "The Crown of the Russian Empire, or the Elusive Again." The image of Karp (Humpbacked), the leader of the Black Cat gang, in the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” brought him no less popularity.

In 1978, the actor played a stranger in the Soviet-Turkish feature film “My Love, My Sorrow,” based on the play “The Legend of Love,” written by the classic of Turkish literature Nazim Hikmet. Foreign artists were involved in the film, but part of the cast was still occupied by Soviet artists Vladimir Samoilov, Anatoly Papanov, Vsevolod Sanaev and others.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Hunchback

In the 80s, Dzhigarkhanyan’s fame and demand in cinema only increased. Between 1980 and 1989, the actor starred in 50 films, among which the most popular were “Tehran-43”, “Tales of the Old Wizard”, “The Life of Klim Samgin”, “Two Arrows. Stone Age detective."

Even the collapse of the Soviet Union could not harm the actor’s popularity. In the 90s, Armen Borisovich acted as often as in the 80s, even despite his employment at VGIK, where he taught and supervised one of the groups of students. In the early 2000s, he worked in several parts of the detective story “Gangster Petersburg”, where he tried on the image of the crime boss Givi Chvirkhadze, nicknamed Gurgen.

Since Armen starred in musical films, he often had to perform songs on his own, which later became popular. More than others, the artist’s fans liked the compositions he performed in the feature film “Dog in the Manger.”

On the left is Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in the film “Shirley Myrli” (1995).
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Joker
Over the years of acting, Dzhigarkhanyan has more than once participated in dubbing cartoons. His voice can be heard in the films “The New Adventures of Grandma Ezhka”, “Treasure Island”, “Tishka the Train”, “Cars” and many others. And in 1990, he had the opportunity to voice the Gray Wolf in the puppet-plasticine cartoon “The Gray Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood” for adults. The voice of the second leading character belongs to the soloist of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia Svetlana Stepchenko.

In 2008, the artist tried on the role of a director, producing a play based on Veniamin Smekhov’s play “The Thousand and One Nights of Shahrazade.”

In 2020, he took a break from work due to health reasons. On March 5, the actor was hospitalized with suspected myocardial infarction at the Research Institute named after. N.V. Sklifosovsky.

Despite health problems, Armen Borisovich continued to appear on screen in the future. In 2020, the actor worked on the main role in the drama “From Love Is Born”, a joint production of filmmakers from three countries - Georgia, the USA and Russia. And then the drama “Angels Die Twice” was launched into production, in which Dzhigarkhanyan was supposed to appear in the leading role, but the exact premiere date was never announced.

The tragic fates of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s first wife and daughter

A famous actor, as well as a theater director, on whose work more than one generation has grown up, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan will celebrate his 85th birthday next year. The holder of the title of People's Artist of the USSR was officially married three times, but his personal life can hardly be called cloudless and absolutely happy.

Photo: muzh-zhena.ru Alla Vannovskaya

In this article we will tell you about the tragic fate of Armen Borisovich’s first official wife - theater actress Alla Vannovskaya, who gave him his only heir - daughter Elena. Unfortunately, both of them died early and under very dramatic circumstances.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan before meeting his first wife

The future actor was born in Yerevan, in 1935, on the third of October, and became the second child in a family of Tiflis Armenians. His father left the family just a few months after the boy was born, leaving his wife alone with two small children in her arms. Armen and his older sister were subsequently raised by their stepfather, who replaced their father, and whom the actor still remembers with special warmth.

He first saw his biological father as an adult, when he visited his grandparents, but the parent did not show any interest in the offspring, so they practically did not communicate. Many years later, Boris Dzhigarkhanyan regretted this. Before his death, the old and frail man wanted to see his son to apologize to him, saying that he was bored and tormented by remorse.

Photo: 24smi.org Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in his youth

The childhood of the future actor occurred during the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War. Nevertheless, despite the general oppressive atmosphere, even in his youth the boy decided that when he grew up, he would certainly become an actor. This was due in no small part to his mother, who loved the theater and often took her children there. Little Armen literally fell in love with the stage, so after graduating from school, he went to Moscow to enroll in a theater university.

The talented young man chose GITIS for himself, but, to his own great chagrin, he was never able to become its student. Despite the fact that he is an Armenian who grew up in a Russian-speaking environment, and both languages ​​were native to him, the young man’s accent was still too noticeable at that time. The saddened Armen returned home, however, he did not give up, and at the age of seventeen he began working at the Armenian film studio “Armenfilm” as an assistant cameraman.

Over the next two years, the guy carefully prepared to enter the theater institute. But this time the young man did not dare to take risks, and therefore remained in his native Yerevan. He entered the local art and theater institute without any problems, and while still a student began performing on the theater stage, as well as acting in big films. The young actor made his debut at the Yerevan Russian Drama Theater already in his first year. There he met his first great love - theater actress Alla Yuryevna Vannovskaya.

Photo: anews.com Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Alla Vannovskaya: a love story

From the first days of his work in the theater, the aspiring artist was simply amazed by the beauty and talent of the inimitable Alla Vannovskaya. At that time, she was a real prima, one of the leading actresses, and Armen was an unknown young student. In addition, Alla Yuryevna was fifteen years older than her admirer, and was legally married, so Dzhigarkhanyan did not even hope that his beloved would reciprocate his feelings. But, despite such an impressive difference in age and marital status, the prima’s heart melted from the touching courtship of the young man. Soon the woman left the family. They began to live together and decided to legalize their relationship.

The actor's first marriage lasted about six years, however, it did not bring him happiness. Armen Borisovich’s chosen one had a complex and explosive character, in addition, the wife was incredibly jealous of her young husband, whose popularity was rapidly growing, towards his many fans and colleagues. The man tried to put up with this for a long time, but his patience was also not unlimited.

The situation was further complicated by the fact that Vannovskaya suffered from chorea, a syndrome characterized by erratic, sudden and irregular movements, similar to normal facial movements and gestures, but stronger in amplitude and intensity, often reminiscent of some kind of dance. The actress was treated in a psychiatric clinic and tried several times to take her own life. This happened during periods of exacerbation of the disease.

Photo: bulvar.com.ua Alla Vannovskaya

In 1964, Alla Yuryevna gave her husband a daughter, Elena, who remained Dzhigarkhanyan’s only biological child. By that time, the actors’ marriage had shown a noticeable crack, and soon after the baby was born, the couple separated. Some time after this, the man moved to Moscow to continue his acting career there. At that time, he had already managed to star in several films, but they did not bring him much fame. In 1965, film director Frunze Dovlatyan approved the young actor for the main role in the dramatic film “Hello, it’s me!”, which made him famous throughout the Soviet Union.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Alla Vannovskaya: after breaking up

Armen Borisovich met his future second wife shortly before moving to the capital. Tatyana Sergeevna Vlasova was an actress of the same Yerevan Russian Drama Theater. She was the first to reveal her feelings to Dzhigarkhanyan, and if Tatyana had not done this, then their relationship might not have existed at all. The actress also managed to be married and divorced. She raised her son Stepan from her former husband. Her new chosen one accepted little Styopa as his own child, and quickly found a common language with the boy, and Vlasova, in turn, was ready to accept her lover’s daughter, Lenochka, into the family.

As for Alla Vannovskaya, her condition after breaking up with her young husband began to rapidly worsen. The woman developed problems with alcohol, and her already unstable psyche was completely shaken. Armen Borisovich was forced to take his daughter away because his ex-wife simply could not raise her and properly care for the child. Soon after this, Alla Yuryevna ended up within the walls of a psychiatric hospital, where she died in 1966. According to some reports, the woman voluntarily died. She was only 46 years old then.

Photo: rustars.tv Alla Vannovskaya

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan: the death of his only daughter

The following year, 1967, the actor was legally married to Vlasova, with whom they went together to conquer Moscow. At first, little Lenochka was looked after by the mother of a rising cinema star, and as soon as the man got firmly on his feet, he took the child to his capital. Despite the fact that Tatyana Sergeevna actually replaced the girl’s own mother and tried to raise her as her own child, their relationship was rather difficult.

The actor was very worried that the mental illness that his first wife suffered from could be passed on to their daughter. Unfortunately, over time, the man realized that his worst fears were confirmed. The girl also suffered from chorea, which she inherited from her mother.

Elena did not immediately decide on the choice of her future profession, she tried to study in different places, in different specialties, but ultimately decided that she wanted to follow in the footsteps of her parents and connect her life with acting. After graduation, her father helped her get a job at the Mayakovsky Theater, where he himself served. On the eve of the new year of 1988, Armen Borisovich and his daughter Lena were supposed to play together in the same production, but this, alas, never happened. The girl passed away on New Year's Eve under very tragic and unclear circumstances.

Photo: 24smi.org Armen Dzhigarkhanyan with Tatyana Vlasova, daughter and adopted son

According to Tatyana Vlasova, her stepdaughter at that time was already quite old and independent, and therefore lived separately from her parents. She had a close relationship with a certain young man, but Dzhigarkhanyan did not approve of the choice of the heiress. That year, the acting family planned to spend the winter holidays in Norway. Tatyana Sergeevna flew there earlier to prepare everything, and her husband was delayed because of the very play in which he was supposed to play with Elena. But instead of a fun winter holiday, the family plunged into mourning.

Vlasova’s husband called and said that Lena was no longer there. The woman couldn’t believe it, it all happened so suddenly and tragically. As it turned out, the girl and her boyfriend died in the garage. Her body lay at the gate, and the man was inside the car behind the wheel. The cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning. What exactly happened on that fateful evening is not known for certain; the official cause of the tragedy was called an accident. Subsequently, Armen Borisovich always avoided this painful topic for him, and only once in an interview did he mention that it was his fault for what happened, for not saving his only daughter.

In 2015, the marriage of Dzhigarkhanyan and Vlasova broke up; the spouses did not have any common heirs over the many years of their marriage. And the very next year, the 80-year-old man married a young pianist named Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. According to his third wife, the actor never spoke about his daughter and did not visit her grave. Moreover, when Vitalina herself suggested that he go to the cemetery together, he became noticeably nervous and immediately changed the topic of conversation. After her divorce from People’s Artist, Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, in one of her interviews, expressed her opinion that the heiress of her ex-husband allegedly did not die as a result of a tragic accident, but went to another world of her own free will.

Photo: rsute.ru Tatyana Vlasova with her mother, mother-in-law, son Stepan and Elena Dzhigarkhanyan

Let us add that after a high-profile divorce from his third wife, the actor’s health deteriorated greatly. He ended up in a hospital bed several times; the latest disturbing news appeared in the press a few days ago. And in September of this year, Armen Borisovich announced that he was reunited with his second wife, Tatyana Vlasova. The woman specifically returned from the United States to Russia in order to take care of her ex-husband herself. The actor added that he and Tatyana will grow old together and will never be separated again.

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Theater

While still at the institute, while studying in his first year, the guy began to appear on the stage of the Yerevan Russian Drama Theater. Here he served for 12 years, performing more than 30 performances.

The young actor was not trusted with the main characters, but Armen often had the opportunity to get used to ambiguous characters. This was also facilitated by the young man’s appearance: average height (175 cm with a weight of up to 80 kg), expressive facial features, interesting facial expressions.

The most important event in the actor’s life was his acquaintance with Anatoly Efros, who in 1967 was the director of Lenkom. Noting the young man’s talent, the director invited Dzhigarkhanyan to join his theater troupe in Moscow.

The actor served at Lenkom for 2 years, and then began playing in performances at the V. Mayakovsky Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan worked with this institution until the mid-90s, after which he founded his own “Theater “D,” which he still leads.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in his youth
After completing a rehabilitation course after a heart attack, the man returned to his previous lifestyle. He could hardly move, but did not resign as head of the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. According to him, every time he went to work to attend the theater premieres.

At the beginning of January 2020, he was hospitalized again, an ambulance arrived at the doors of the theater and took the artist to the Pirogov Clinical Hospital. Armen Borisovich was given several diagnoses at once - a hypertensive crisis, suspected neuralgia and a viral infection.

The next time Dzhigarkhanyan was in the hospital in April after suffering a heart attack, in the hospital the man fell into a coma, but later came out of it. He did not appear in public for a long time, after which the media began to full of headlines that the artist had allegedly passed away, but his family was hiding this fact.

Later, the news appeared to refute the rumors about his death: the actor is alive and, despite his poor health and age, continues to periodically make himself known. He no longer participates in the life of the theater as an actor, but enjoys following the release of new productions and feature films.

Former wives of Armen Borisovich

According to unofficial sources, one can compare the annual incomes of Dzhigarkhanyan’s two ex-wives.

The first is Tatyana Sergeevna Vlasova, theater and film actress, with whom he lived for 50 years.

The second is Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, a pianist, many believe that she became famous only because of the name of her ex-husband, who was married to her only from 2020 to 2020.

As you can see, both wives have low earnings compared to the fortune of artist Dzhigarkhanyan. It is known about Tatyana Vlasova that she now conducts excursions at the art museum and stages performances for children. Vitalina still takes part in operas and concerts as a pianist.

It still remains a mystery to whom and what kind of financial assistance the actor provides.

Who are Dzhigarkhanyan's heirs? According to the latest data, the director deprived Vitalina of any inheritance and transferred the entire fortune to his children.

Video with Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan now

Now Armen Borisovich spends more time at home in peace and quiet. His failing health does not allow him to leave his native walls for a long time. Despite this, the artist’s name is not forgotten; it periodically appears in the media in the context of various news.

In March 2020, it became known that the daughter of the Minister of Health of Azerbaijan, Oktay Shiraliyev, who heads the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, asked her favorite artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan to become her godfather. Born into a Muslim family in Azerbaijan, despite the negative attitude of the public, she decided to convert to Christianity and be baptized in the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Attitude to money

In one of his interviews on the “Culture” channel, Dzhigarkhanyan spoke about his thoughts and attitude towards money, apartments, cars. He said, quote: “I was always an actor who just needed a role and bread.” Indeed, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan leads a very modest non-secular life; he values ​​spiritual qualities and talent more and is always ready to help aspiring actors and producers.

“If I was told to choose either a state or a scene, I would choose the second option without hesitation. But, looking at the current generation, I see that soon everyone will begin to choose the first option without hesitation” - quote from Armen Borisovich in an interview with NTV channel.

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