Tigran Keosayan

Biography

Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (January 4, 1966, Moscow — September 26, 2025, ibid.) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer, film and television actor, music video director, and television presenter of Armenian descent, known for his anti-Ukrainian, sexist, racist, chauvinistic statements and propaganda. Author and host of the Russian satirical political program "International Sawmill." Son of Soviet film director and screenwriter Edmond Keosayan, husband of Margarita Simonyan. In 2022, Armenia declared Keosayan persona non grata due to his propaganda statements and banned him from entering the country.

Directed

1. Poor Sasha (1997) — Director
2. Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) — Director
3. The President and his Granddaughter (2000) — Director
4. Crimean Bridge. Made With Love! (2018) — Director
5. Immortals (2022) — Director
6. Mirage (2008) — Director
7. A Hare over the Abyss (2006) — Director
8. 7 Days (2025) — Director
9. Katka and Shiz (1992) — Director
10. Ландыш серебристый 2 (2005) — Director
11. Мужская работа (2001) — Director
12. Sea. Mountains. Clay (2014) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again (1971) — (uncredited)
2. The Heat (2006) — Flowers seller
3. Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) — Visitor in club (Uncredited)
4. Crimean Bridge. Made With Love! (2018)
5. Projectorparishilton (2008)
6. To Remember (1993) — Narrator
7. Joker (1991) — Ашир
8. Любовница (2005) — Sergey Zemtsov
9. A Dream on a Summer Morning (1989)
10. Империя иллюзий: Братья Сафроновы (2015) — Self - Judge