Today the name of Garik Martirosyan is well known to the Russian viewer. The showman leads an active creative activity, develops his own projects, often appears on the big screen. Our article will tell about this man, his life and family, the path to fame.
Martirosyan family
Currently, his mother, Jasmine Surenovna, has a doctorate in medical sciences. She has worked as a gynecologist all her life. Father, Yuri Mikhailovich, built a successful engineering career. Garik has a younger brother, Levon, who works in the presidential administration of Armenia.
Maternal grandfather, Suren Nikolayevich, worked as the Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR, and his paternal grandfather, Mikhail Arkadyevich, was in charge of the school and taught mathematics.
Garik was born on February 13, 1974 in the heart of Armenia, in sunny Yerevan, in a friendly intelligent family. According to local tradition, wanting to protect the first-born from a dashing fate, they did not write the number 13 on the birth certificate. Therefore, February 14 is officially considered Martirosyan's birthday. The artist jokes about this, that this fact gives him every right to celebrate for two days.
Yerevan childhood
Parents tried to give their sons the best. But Garik's "talents" appeared in early childhood. He was a real tomboy and knew how to organize a pogrom anywhere. In the company of peers, the youngster has always been the ringleader and the main inventor.
Brezhnev's grandson
At school, Garik told his comrades and teachers that he was the grandson of the Secretary General himself. Someone believed, but someone did not, but the boy's acting talents were noticed even then. The first test on stage was the role of Archimedes in a school play.
Garik studied well, but his behavior left much to be desired.
Introduction to music
When the boy was 6 years old, his parents sent him to a music school. Surprisingly, the music captivated the restless tomboy, and he began to make some progress. Over time, he himself began to try to compose melodies and songs.
Garik Martirosyan, perhaps, would have successfully graduated from a music school, but his explosive nature and pampering became the reason for expulsion. However, the young talent did not inflame with resentment - Garik continued to study on his own, successfully mastered playing the piano, guitar and drums.
Dr. Martirosyan
After graduating from school, Garik became a student at the Yerevan State Medical University. Today he says in an interview that knowledge of the basics of medicine is necessary for every educated person.
Having received a diploma as a psychotherapist-neuropathologist, Martirosyan worked in his specialty for several years.
He never even hinted that he chose a profession under the influence of his mother, a doctor or under the pressure of his family, he always spoke of his medical practice with warmth and gratitude. According to him, the experience of working in psychiatry even now is bearing fruit: he knows how to see people, he feels lies well.
But whatever his success in the medical field, his love for the stage turned out to be stronger.
"New Armenians"
Like many iconic figures of modern Russian show business, Garik Martirosyan began his journey with KVN back in 1992.
These were difficult times for his country. The war for Nagorno-Karabakh was in full swing, in the settlements there were frequent power outages. Today, Garik recalls how scripts were written by candlelight, dialogues were worked out, images were thought out, scenes were rehearsed. According to his teammates, it was their outlet, a way to be creative, survive in difficult conditions and not succumb to the blues.
The fateful acquaintance with the New Armenians team happened in 1994. Garik started as an ordinary player, and in 1997 he headed the team.
KVN occupied all his free time, there was not enough strength for medical practice. Since the late 90s, fees for KVN tours have become the main income. At the same time, Garik Martirosyan began to try himself as a screenwriter. Still continuing to play in KVN on stage, he was also engaged in producing. When the team "Burnt by the Sun" (Sochi) appeared, Martirosyan participated in creating scripts for it.
In total, Garik Martirosyan performed with the New Armenians team for 9 years. During this time, the team became the champion of the Major League, won the Summer Cup twice, was noted at the festivals "Voicing KiViN".
Martirosyan on TV
The start took place in 1997, when Garik acted as a screenwriter for Igor Ugolnikov's Good Evening program.
Then there were the shootings of "Guess the Melody", where Garik Martirosyan, Garik Kharlamov and Polina Sibagatullina reached the third round.
Musical talents came in handy in the popular show "Two Stars". The duet of Martirosyan and Larisa Dolina won.
In 2007, the artist made his debut as a presenter on the popular project "Minute of Glory". In the same year, another new project for Garik Martirosyan took place: Pavel Volya, with his help, released the music album “Respect and respect”.
As a leading artist, he also performed on other shows: “Main Stage”, “Dancing with the Stars”. In addition, Martirosyan launched several of his own projects that deserve special mention.
comedy club
In an interview, the artist says that this show is the fruit of painstaking teamwork. But his stage mates have repeatedly mentioned that he is being modest, and in fact, Garik Martirosyan invented and created the Comedy Club, and the rest only supported his idea and helped to realize it.
It all started in 2005. The format of American stand-up shows became the basis of the new project. Garik not only became one of the residents, but also acted as a producer and screenwriter for the Comedy Club.
Garik Martirosyan, Garik Kharlamov, Pavel Volya, Timur Batrutdinov and their other teammates quickly won the hearts of viewers and became favorites of the national youth. But glory did not fall on them from the sky. For more than a year, the first issue of Comedy could not break through to the big screen, everywhere the young team was refused. Fortunately, the program was still put on the air.
Speaking about the project, Martirosyan admits that initially he did not really believe in success. Not everyone liked (and still likes) ambiguous sharp jokes. But the show certainly found its audience.
Initially, Garik was the only host, he personally represented the guests, sometimes balancing on the edge, but never breaking into "darkness" and not allowing himself jokes "below the belt." Since Pavel Volya became the second co-host, Garik Martirosyan continued to go on stage while greeting the audience, sometimes prompting a colleague, helping to get out of piquant situations (it is worth noting that the sharp-tongued "Snowball" manages to get into them with enviable constancy).
Martirosyan's forte is musical numbers. He has a magnificent voice, he masterfully performs the most difficult parts on the piano, and improvises with ease.
Regular viewers must have noticed another talent of Martirosyan, thanks to which he is a constant performer of the roles of foreigners. Garik is fluent in English and knows several other languages quite well.
In March 2018, a team of Comedy residents acted as experts on the program What? Where? When?". Garik Martirosyan and his comrades defeated the team of viewers with a score of 6:4. According to the artists, the fight was difficult and very exciting.
Producer, screenwriter, presenter
In 2008, the comedy series Our Russia was released, in which Martirosyan is a producer and plays one of the supporting roles (cameraman Rudik). The bet is made not only on the specific humor a la "Chelyabinsk is so harsh ...", but also on the star cast. Garik Martirosyan's colleagues from Comedy, as well as some famous KVN players, starred in the series.
Another notable project designed for a different target audience is ProjectorParisHilton, in which Alexander Tsekalo, Sergey Svetlakov and Ivan Urgant became Martirosyan's partners. The show was broadcast on Channel One, managed to catch the fancy of many viewers, but in 2012 the project was closed. To the delight of the fans, after a four-year break, the magnificent four of the Searchlight returned to the air. Garik is not only the host, but also the producer of the show.
In 2008, the Russian viewer saw the first feature film, produced and written by Martirosyan - “Our Russia. Eggs of Destiny. Garik managed to prove his production talent more than once, another confirmation of this was the Show News project.
Exemplary family man
Garik Martirosyan is married to Zhanna Levina, who is engaged in jurisprudence. The couple has a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Jasmine.
The acquaintance took place at one of the KVN games, and Zhanna was a fan of a completely different team. Young people met at a banquet after the game, but a stormy romance did not happen. Only a year later they met again and realized: this is fate.
The wedding took place in 1998 in Cyprus. All members of the team acted as witnesses.
Since then, the couple has not parted. The spouses have never pleased the yellow press with a loud scandal, the promise of an early divorce, a reason to talk about intrigues on the side and similar antics that are so common for many celebrities. This family seems to be really happy.
bald fan
For a long time, Martirosyan stated that he did not have accounts in social networks and did not plan to start them in the future. But Garik seems to have given up. One of his projects is an Instagram account where the artist asks questions daily and then personally chooses the person whose comment turned out to be the most witty to give him a cash prize.
In addition to this battle, Martirosyan shares news, family pictures, creative plans, and thoughts with subscribers. By the way, the number of followers has exceeded 1.4 million.
Subscribers know that the showman loves football. Lokomotiv is his favorite team, but Garik also follows other matches. For example, before the game between Manchester United, in which Henrikh Mkhitaryan plays, and Tottenham, Garik promised to shave his head if his countryman's team won. Manchester won the match, and Garik kept his word.
Income and awards
According to Forbes, Garik was three times in the top Russian celebrities who receive significant income. According to experts, his fortune is estimated at about $3 million, and Martirosyan earns at least $200,000 a month.
The artist in 2007 received a prestigious award from Humor FM radio; and was also awarded the title of "Person of the Year" in the nomination "Face from TV" by GQ magazine.
Garik Martirosyan is a Russian and Armenian actor, comedian, showman, TV presenter, co-producer, artistic director. Born in Yerevan on February 13, 1974. However, Garik's parents asked to mark the date February 14 in the document, as they consider the number 13 unlucky.
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short biography
Garik was born into an ordinary family. Mother, Jasmine Surenovna, works as a gynecologist, is a doctor of sciences. Father, Yuri Mikhailovich, is a mechanical engineer. Garik has two brothers - the elder Ambartsum and the younger Levon.
Garik studied at a music school, but he was expelled from there for bad behavior. But this did not prevent him from mastering the drums, guitar and piano. As a result, the future showman learned to write music on his own.
After school, Garik entered the Yerevan State Medical University. He received a diploma in the specialty "neurologist-psychotherapist". After graduating from the university, Garik Martirosyan worked in clinical residency for three years. Around the same time, he met the KVN team of his university.
From 1993 to 2002, Garik Martirosyan played in the New Armenians KVN team. During the same period, he was a member of the USSR National Team team, worked together with Igor Ugolnikov on the Good Evening television project, and was a member of the author group of the KVN team Burnt by the Sun.
In 2004, Martirosyan participated in the filming of the Guess the Melody program, where Polina Sibagatullina and Igor Kharlamov became his colleagues on the set.
In 2005, together with his comrades from the New Armenians team, Garik Martirosyan created the Comedy Club project and became one of its participants. In 2006, the young TV presenter won the Two Stars project, where he sang in a duet with Larisa Dolina. In the same year, he acted as a co-author of the script and co-producer of the Our Russia project, launched on the TNT channel.
Since 2007, Garik Martirosyan has acted as a host at the Minute of Glory. Garik participated in the Channel One project in 2 seasons. In the winter of the same year, together with Pavel Volya Martirosyan, he worked on recording the album "Respect and Respect".
In the period from 2008 to 2012, Garik Martirosyan was one of the hosts of the ProjectorParisHilton program, which aired on Channel One. This show was awarded the TEFI award in the Best Infotainment Program of the Year nomination.
In 2008, Martirosyan wrote the script for the film Our Russia: Eggs of Destiny. The film was released two years later. In this project, Martirosyan also acted as a producer.
Garik starred in such series as "Thank God you have come!", "Southern Butovo", as well as in the television show "Parrot Club". He also participated in such projects as "Our yard 3" and "HB".
In 2007, Humor FM radio presented Martirosyan with the Humor of the Year award in the Showman nomination. In the same year, GQ magazine awarded the TV presenter the Man of the Year award in the TV Face nomination.
Garik Martirosyan is married to Zhanna Levina. He met his future wife in 1997 at the KVN festival, which was held in Sochi. However, their relationship began only a year later. In 2004, the couple had a daughter, Jasmine, and in 2009, a son, Daniel, was born.
Life is a complicated thing, and sometimes so much so that it becomes sad. It's good that sometimes people are born who can make anyone laugh in any situation. After all, scientifically proven - laughter heals and prolongs life. So good comedians are comparable to good doctors. Actually, Garik Martirosyan was originally going to become a good doctor. And he became a good comedian.
Garik was born into a very intelligent family, where his mother was a gynecologist, and his father was a mechanical engineer. He grew up with his younger brother Leva. And he began to amuse his relatives from childhood.
“Our physics teacher was a big joker,” Garik recalls his school years, “Once we stood with him in the corridor and talked. And in our class there was a guy who constantly sneaked up on everyone from behind and scared. Our director was walking along the corridor, I told the teacher that my classmate was now sneaking towards him. When the director approached the physics teacher, he turned with a terrible mug and shouted: “Beeee!” For the next fifteen minutes, until I was called after the physicist to the director, I was a hero, and the whole class applauded me.
The children loved the playful boy, but the adults, apparently, found it difficult. So, Garik failed to finish music school - he was expelled from there for bad behavior. So I had to learn musical instruments myself later. However, apparently, by the end of the school, the behavior improved, because after graduation Martirosyan decided to continue the family dynasty through the medical line and easily entered the Yerevan State Medical University as a neuropathologist-psychotherapist.
At the same time, in his student years, Garik begins to play in KVN. He not only becomes popular as part of the New Armenians team, but rather quickly and for a long time (from 1997 to 2002) leads it. Despite the fact that the "New Armenians" are quickly growing into one of the most popular and beloved by the people of KVN teams, after university, Garik first chooses the profession of a doctor: for three years he has been working in his specialty - a neuropathologist. However, the vocation - humor - takes its toll, and since 2005 Martirosyan has already firmly “settled on TV”. This year, the bright and immediately popular TV show Comedy Club, one of the founders of which was Martirosyan, is just coming out on TV. After the Comedy Club, TV shows follow one after another, in which Martirosyan acts either as a host or as a participant. The audience has long appreciated his great sense of humor and witty improvisations. Finally, since 2008, the ProjectorParisHilton program begins to appear on Channel One, one of the four presenters of which is Garik (the others are Ivan Urgant, Alexander Tsekalo, Sergey Svetlakov). "ProjectorParisHilton" is a peculiar phenomenon of Russian television, a very funny program with an unusual atmosphere of "intellectual kitchen", where four friends, gathered for tea, discuss newspaper articles, political events and receive guests. The program beat all possible records of popularity. During the four years of its airing, such world stars as Mickey Rourke, Hugh Jackman, Emir Kusturica, Will Smith and many others "drank tea" in it. Unfortunately, the wonderful program, which gathered a huge number of residents of the former USSR at the TV screens on Saturdays, was closed in 2012 by the leadership of Channel One, which “did not share” the presenters with another TV channel - TNT.
However, for Garik Martirosyan, ProjectorParisHilton was definitely not in vain. That evening, when Steven Seagal visited the program, Garik announced that his son was born. Seagal wished to come up with a name for the child, and so it turned out that the youngest son of Garik Martirosyan is now called Daniel. In addition to Daniel, the Martirosyan family is the daughter Jasmine and the wife Jeanne, with whom the presenter began dating back in the days of KVN.
Leading
2007 - show "Minute of Glory"
2008 - 2012 - ProjectorParisHilton program
Data
- In fact, Garik Martirosyan was born on February 13, but the parents considered the 13th an unlucky number and asked to record the child as the 14th. Garik celebrates his birthday for two days.
- As a child, Garik was expelled from a music school, but after that he himself mastered playing the piano, guitar and drums, so well that he writes music.
- Garik Martirosyan draws very well.
- The youngest son Garik Martirosyan named Daniel on the advice of Steven Seagal on the program "ProjectorParisHilton"
Awards
2007 - Award "Humor of the Year" from the radio "Humor FM" (nomination "Showman").
2007 - "Person of the Year" according to GQ magazine (nomination "Face from TV").
2008-2012 - the ProjectorParisHilton program received the TEFI award as the best infotainment program of the year.
Movies
2005 - "Our Yard 3"
2008 - "Our Russia"
2009 - "Univer"
2010 - Our Russia. Eggs of Destiny"
was born on February 14, 1974 in the city of Yerevan (Armenian SSR). Already in childhood, Garik was a very restless boy. At the age of 6, his parents sent him to a music school, from where he was expelled for bad behavior. But this did not bother the future resident of the Comedy Club at all, since he independently learned to play the guitar, piano, drums and also began to compose music.
Martirosyan's artistic talent manifested itself at school: he played his first role already in the sixth grade. Garik portrayed Archimedes in a play staged by a physics teacher.
After graduating from school, Garik Martirosyan entered YSMU (Yerevan State Medical University). The talented comedian liked this courageous profession, because he was sure that "every person should have at least basic knowledge in the field of medicine." Garik studied as a neuropathologist-psychotherapist. It should be noted that after graduating from the university, he even worked for three years in this profession.
Probably, Martirosyan would have remained working as a psychotherapist if, back in 1992, he had not met the KVN players of the legendary New Armenians team. Now it is already possible to assert with full confidence that it was KVN that became the defining moment in his fate, providing a ticket to a truly great life. In 1993-2002, the talented showman was a player, and since 1997 he has been the captain of this team. KVN became for him not just a school of television and humor, but, first of all, a school of life.
On television, Garik first appeared back in 1997 as the main screenwriter of the TV program Good Evening with Igor Ugolnikov. Over time, he became a very active participant in various television shows. It is worth noting that in a duet with Larisa Guzeeva, he even won the Two Stars project, which was held on Channel One. Garik Martirosyan received his first experience as a TV presenter in the Minute of Glory program. Today he is one of the leading TV shows "ProjectorParisHilton".
A separate page in the life of Garik is the Comedy Club project, of which he is the founder. Unfortunately, Martirosyan always spoke very sparingly about the appearance of this project. Like, he himself, Artak Gasparyan, Artur Dzhanibekyan, Garik Kharlamov, Slava Blagodarsky, Pavel Volya, and several other people met, met and decided to create a new cool program. So gradually the all-Russian "comediclabization" began.
Since November 2006, Garik Martirosyan has been a co-producer and co-author of the script for the TV show Our Russia, which aired on the TNT channel. In the winter of 2007, he took part in the recording of Pavel Volya's album Respect and Respect. Among other things, Garik is a producer and scriptwriter of the film Our Russia: Eggs of Destiny.
Personal life
Garik Martirosyan is married. He met his wife Jeanne in Sochi in 1997. He has two children: daughter Jasmine (born 2004) and son Daniel (born 2009). Garik tries to spend all his free time with his family. Football is my favorite hobby. The material was compiled in collaboration with
Garik Martirosyan is a comedian whom almost everyone knows today, even those who are not very interested in show business. Garik has participated and is participating in many projects, making each of them popular and rated. He also successfully produces some of them. It seems that everything that Martirosyan does is given to him as if effortlessly, without much strain. However, behind any business there is hard work, which sooner or later leads to success.
Garik Martirosyan was born on a happy February day - February 13, 1974 in the capital of the Armenian SSR - Yerevan. But his parents considered this day not so happy due to superstition and asked the medical staff to write down the date of birth as February 14, so Garik now celebrates his birthday 2 days in a row.
Garik, along with his older brother Ambartsum and younger Levon, grew up in the family of a mechanical engineer and a gynecologist. Garik has two outstanding grandfathers, one of whom at one time was the Deputy Minister of Trade of the USSR, and the second was the director of the school. Garik is from a family of old-timers - one of his grandfathers and two grandmothers are alive, although they are already over 90 years old.
Parents took care of their sons, trying to instill in them a love for the art of early childhood. Garik, unlike his brothers, was a very mobile and naughty child. All three brothers studied at a music school, but only Garik was expelled from it for "good" behavior and for pampering in class. However, after school, he, this time with pleasure, mastered playing the piano, guitar and drums, moreover, Martirosyan composed several pieces of music.
Acting talent, like many active children, Garik showed up early, while still at school, so he actively took part in school productions.
After graduating from school, Garik, following the example of his mother, who was a doctor and even a doctor of science, entered the Yerevan Medical University and received the specialty of a neuropathologist-psychotherapist. He liked the chosen profession, and he worked in the profile for three years.
But life made its choice for him. While still studying at the University, Garik began to play in the KVN team. He did it so well that he was subsequently chosen as the captain of the New Armenians team. His team in 1997 became the Champion of the Major League. Also, Garik Martirosyan has a lot of awards from the Cheerful and Resourceful Club.
Such a bright character could not remain unclaimed in the developing Russian show business. He first worked as a head writer on the program " Good evening with Igor Ugolnikov", Then he began to take part in other television projects and shows.
And in 2005, Garik, along with other members of the KVN team, founded a humorous project comedy club like the American Stand Up. Garik was not only a participant in this show, but also its producer. The success of the project turned out to be stunning, its residents became favorites of the entire CIS space.
And a year later, Martirosyan created a new project called " Our Russia”, which he co-produced and co-wrote.
Star glory Garik added participation in the show " Two stars”, where he, together with Larisa Dolina, became the winner. After he tried himself as a presenter on Channel One in the program " Moment of glory". He was also a judge in several projects on TNT.
And since 2008, Garik has become a permanent co-host of the sparkling program " SpotlightParisHilton". This program aired weekly until 2012.
Now Garik Martirosyan is not sitting idle, he always has projects on which he continues to work both as an actor, and as a screenwriter, and as a producer.
Garik Martirosyan, personal life
In his personal life, Garik is a happy family man. His wifeZhanna Levina- A lawyer by profession. They met back in 1997 in Sochi, but they started dating only a year later, and then got married. In 2004, they had a daughter, Jasmine, and in 2009, a son, Daniel. Garik tries to spend as much time with his family as possible and always strives to go home.
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