Olga Gulazyan (; 8 January 1886 – 27 May 1970) was a Soviet–Armenian actress of film and theater. Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1952) and the State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1967).
Career She was born on 8 January 1886, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia). She graduated from the parish school of the Kharpukhi district in Tiflis.
She began her stage career at the age of 15. In 1900, she played the role of Nato in the play Another Victim by Gabriel Sundukian, receiving the author's encouragement. She began her professional career in 1901 in Petros Adamian State Drama Theatre in Tbilisi. Took part in performances at the Zubalov People's House, Araksi theater and in the Avjalyan auditorium. She later toured to Baku, New Nakhichevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Alexandropol and Shusha.
Gulazyan's distinctive art was formed as a result of joint work with great Armenian actors: Hovhannes Abelian, Siranush, G. Petrosyan and O.Maysuryan.
In 1926, Gulazyan moved to Yerevan and became the actress of the Gabriel Sundukyan State Academic Theater.
In 1955, she was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR of the IV convocation.
She died on 27 May 1970, in Yerevan. She was buried at the Tokhmakhskoye cemetery.
Works
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1926ZareLyatif-Khanum1955Ghosts Leave the PeaksAsmik1958The Song of First LoveVartush, Varuzhan's mother
Theatre +YearTitleRoleNotes1900Another victimNato1922PepoEpemia1924TartuffeDorina1927HatabalaNatalia1927Uncle Bagdasar—1929A Profitable PositionFelisata Gerasimovna Kukushkina1933The Imaginary InvalidTuanet1936Namus—1944The Cliff—1946Without a DowryKharita Ignatievna Ogudalova1950Daring—1952Egor Bulychov and othersKsenia1957The trees are dying standingGrandmother
References
Sources
Olga Gulazyan. "Memories" (1957). Yerevan. Bagdasaryan N. Olga Gulazyan (Collection-album about the People's Artist of the Armenian SSR) (1979). Yerevan: ATO.
External links
Olga Gulazyan at Open Library