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Metaksia Simonyan (21 February 1926 – 11 August 1987) was a Soviet Armenian actress of film and theater. Metaksia Simonyan was born in 1926 in Ashkhabad. In 1933 Metaksia Simonyan moved to Yerevan with her family. In 1948 she graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. In the same year she was invited to Sundukyan State Academic Theatre. Since 1968 she has taught at Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia.
In the course of studying she played Katerina's (Feodor Sologod's "Penny Plucked"), Anani's (Gabriel Sundukyan’s "Once Again Another Victim") roles.
Among the first memorable roles are Armanush (Grigor Ter-Grigoryan's These Stars are Ours, USSR State Prize, 1950), Nina (Mikhail Lermontov’s Masquerade, Arbenin, Vahram Papazian).
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GenderFemale
Birthday1926-02-21
Deathday1987-08-11 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceAshgabat, Turkmenistan
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
ResidencesYerevan, Armenia
Also Known AsМетаксия Симонян, Սիմոնյան Միհրանի
AwardsPeople's Artist of the Armenian SSR, Order of Friendship of Peoples, State Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR
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