Medea Japaridze

Medea Japaridze (20 February 1923, in Tbilisi – 31 March 1994) was a Soviet and Georgian actress. People's Artist of the Georgian SSR.

Life
In 1939, she graduated from Tbilisi VIII secondary school. She worked for two years at the Folk Art Theater at Nadzaladevi. From 1942 till the end of her life, she was an actress at the Kote Marjanishvili Academic Theater. In the studio of the Rustaveli Theater she listened to Giorgi Tovstonogov's lecture course. Later she was sent to Vl. Nemirovich-Danchenko Studios in Moscow. Here Yuri Zavadsky invited her to the Mossovet Theater, where she played the role of Cleopatra in the Russian language in "Caesar and Cleopatra". She soon returned to her homeland and spent all her life in Georgian cinema.

At the Kote Marjanishvili theater she had many roles. Among them is Nina in (Mikhail Lermontov's "Masquerade"), Julieta, Beatrice, Lady Anna (William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Much ado about nothing, "Wounded Wife Murden", "Richard III"), drunken (M. Baratashvili's "Marine"), (Vazha Pshavela's "Cut"), Marta (Cassona's trees are overly loud), Varvara Karpovna (Kita Buchaidze's "Aavle's Dog"), Gulkani (P. Kakabadze's "Kakhaber Sword"), (Sophocles "Oedipus King"), Mother (Lasha Tabukashvili's "Old Waltz") and others.

In 1950, for the role of "Juragi Shield" she was awarded a Stalin prize. The same year she was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. Her films were screened at the National Archives of Georgia. and at the Cannes Fllm Festival.

Family
She married writer Revaz Tabukashvili (1927–1990).

She is buried in the Didube pantheon of writers and public figures.

Filmography

 * Giorgi Saakadze (1942)
 * Keto and Kote (1948)
 * The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
 * Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
 * Blue Mountains (1983)