Akaki Vasadze

Akaki Aleksis dze Vasadze (; 6 August 1899 – 23 March 1978) was a Georgian stage actor, theatre director and acting teacher. A leading actor of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi, where he also served as artistic director, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1936 and was a three-time recipient of the Stalin Prize. He also appeared in films from the 1920s onward.

Early life Vasadze was born on 6 August 1899 in Kutaisi, then part of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Theatre career From 1920 to 1958 Vasadze was an actor of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi, and from 1935 to 1955 he was also its artistic director. People's Artist of the USSR (6 September 1936) Stalin Prize (1942, 1946, and 1951) Shota Rustaveli State Prize of the Georgian SSR (1975) Two Orders of Lenin (24 February 1946, 10 November 1950) Two Order of the Red Banner of Labour (22 March 1936 and 17 April 1958) A house-museum dedicated to him is located in Tbilisi.