Kira Andronikashvili

Biography

Kira Giorgis asuli Andronikashvili (born November 29, 1908, Tbilisi — died February 24, 1960, in the same city) was a Georgian film actress and director, and a Merited Worker of Arts of Georgia (1959). She was the sister of actress Nato Vachnadze.

From 1926 to 1928, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Tbilisi State University, and from 1929 to 1931, he trained at Yuri Zavadsky’s Theatre-Studio in Moscow. In 1936, he graduated from the Directing Department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. Beginning in 1923, he appeared in films alongside Nato Vachnadze. His first significant role was the title character in the film *Eliso*. He also worked as an assistant director and second director on feature films. Between 1950 and 1960, he directed the Georgian-language dubbing of nearly 15 foreign films, including *Othello*, *The Idiot*, and *And Quiet Flows the Don*, among others.