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Merab Ninidze
Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Merab Ninidze (born 3 November 1965) is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the roles of Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier, Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa, and Giulio Sabbadin…
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Merab Ninidze (born 3 November 1965) is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the roles of Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier, Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa, and Giulio Sabbadin in Conclave. Ninidze was born into an artistic family and was introduced to acting at a young age. He was heavily involved in the theatrical world in Georgia. At the age of 13, he successfully auditioned for the role of Prince Edward in Shakespeare's Richard III at the Rustaveli State Academic Theatre in Tbilisi, which premiered in 1979 and toured the UK three times. From 1982 to 1985, he studied at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Georgia State Film Institute under the guidance of Gizo Jordania, which eventually led him to become a full-fledged member of the Theatre Company. Later, he would perform in plays such as Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Diary of Anne Frank, and David Kldiashvili's Step-Mother. Ninidze's first major film role was in Tengiz Abuladze's 1984 film Repentance, in which he played Tornike Aravidze. At the age of 25, Ninidze immigrated from Georgia following the Civil War in Georgia. During this time, he was offered a role in Goran Rebic's Yugofilm, which led him to work in Vienna for several months. For more than 20 years, Ninidze has worked in Georgian, Russian, German, and English-language film and TV.
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2026
Rosamunde Pilcher: Wo Liebe aufhört und wo sie beginnt
Movie Yamen Nicholls
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2026
Behind the Door
Movie
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2025
A Working Man
Movie Yuri
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2025
April
Movie Chief Physician
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2025
In the Name of Blood
Movie
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2024
Conclave
Movie Sabbadin
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2023
The last season
TV show
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2022
Sirens
TV show
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2021
House Arrest
Movie David
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2021
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Movie Andrej Vaseliev
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2021
Doktor Ballouz
TV show Amin Ballouz
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2020
Vom Geben und Nehmen - Der Usedom-Krimi
Movie Lucjan Gadocha
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2020
Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi
Movie Lucjan Gadocha
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2020
Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi
Movie Lucjan Gadocha
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2020
Das Gesetz sind wir
Movie Djamal Issa
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2020
Freud
TV show Josef Breuer
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2020
The Courier
Movie Oleg Penkovsky
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2019
Russian Whispers
Movie Viktor
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2019
Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi
Movie Lucjan Gadocha
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2019
Treadstone
TV show Yuri Leniov
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2019
Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi
Movie Lucjan Gadocha
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2018
Percht
Movie Truck Driver‘s Voice
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2018
Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod
Movie Witrenko
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2018
McMafia
TV show Vadim Kalyagin
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2017
Jupiter's Moon
Movie Gabor Stern
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2017
I Watch Her Sleep
Movie
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2017
My Happy Family
Movie Soso
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2017
Hostages
Movie Levan
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2016
Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
Movie Friedrich Carl Andreas
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2015
The Puppet Syndrome
Movie Boris
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2015
Bridge of Spies
Movie Soviet Main Interrogator
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2015
Thank You for Bombing
Movie
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2015
Deutschland
TV show
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2015
Under Electric Clouds
Movie Nikolai
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2015
B/W
Movie Нурик
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2015
Neben der Spur
TV show Alexej Kuznet
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2015
After Love
Movie The Painter
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2014
Bis zum Ende der Welt
Movie Zano
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2013
Unter Feinden
Movie Idris Maher
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2013
Invasion
Movie Konstantin
