Nana Jorjadze

Nana Jorjadze
Nana Jorjadze
Born	August 24, 1948 (1948-08-24) (age 63) Tbilisi, USSR (now Georgia)
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1978 - current

Nana Jorjadze (also spelled Djordjadze or Dzhordzhadze; Georgian: ნანა ჯორჯაძე; born August 24, 1948) is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts (1972). Having worked as an architect in the years 1968-74, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough which won her the Caméra d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival,^[1] and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for the Academy Award.

She is married to fellow Georgian writer and director Irakli Kvirikadze.

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Robinsonada or My English Grandfather". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/148/year/1987.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 

Notes

• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). Jorjadze, Nana. Dictionary of Georgian National Dictionary. Retrieved on December 9, 2007.

External links

• Nana Jorjadze at the Internet Movie Database
• (Georgian) Nana Djordjadze. Geocinema.Org.Ge, Retrieved on December 9, 2007.

Persondata
Name	Djordjadze, Nana
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter, actor
Date of birth	1948-08-24
Place of birth	Tbilisi, USSR
Date of death
Place of death