Nana Jorjadze

Nana Jorjadze (; born 24 August 1948) is a Georgian film director, screenwriter and actress. Her work has received several accolades, including an Academy Award nomination.

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1972.She worked as an architect in the years 1968 to 1974.

She later enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979.

Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough that won her the Caméra d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for an Academy Award.

She is married to fellow Georgian writer and director Irakli Kvirikadze, who previously went by the name Irakli Mikhailovich Kvirikadze.

Filmography

As director Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979) Atlant (1979) Momekhmaret ialbuzze asvlashi (TV Movie) (1981) Erosi (1984) Robinsonada or My English Grandfather (1987) Encounters (1993) Château de la napoule (1993) About Georgia (1993) A Chef in Love (1996) as Nana Djordjadze 27 Missing Kisses (2000) as Nana Djordjadze Tolko ty... (TV Mini-Series) (2004) The Rainbowmaker (2008) Moskva, ya lyublyu tebya! (2010) My Mermaid, My Lorelei (2013) Prime Meridian of Wine Géorgie (2016) (Documentary) As writer Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979) Atlant (1979) Momekhmaret ialbuzze asvlashi (TV Movie) (1981) Erosi (1984) Encounters (1993) Château de la napoule (1993) About Georgia (1993) A Chef in Love (1996) as Nana Djordjadze 27 dakarguli kotsna (2000) as Nana Djordjadze As costume designer Atlant (1979) Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979) As set designer Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)