Merab Ninidze
- Acting
- November 3, 1965 · Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Wo Liebe aufhört und wo sie beginnt · Yamen Nicholls
- Behind the Door
- A Working Man · Yuri
- April · Chief Physician
- In the Name of Blood
- Conclave · Sabbadin
- The last season
- Sirens
- Slow Horses · Vassily Rasnokov
- House Arrest · David
- Tom Clancy's Without Remorse · Andrej Vaseliev
- Doktor Ballouz · Amin Ballouz
- Vom Geben und Nehmen – Der Usedom-Krimi · Lucjan Gadocha
- Schmerzgrenze – Der Usedom-Krimi · Lucjan Gadocha
- Nachtschatten – Der Usedom-Krimi · Lucjan Gadocha
- Das Gesetz sind wir · Djamal Issa
- Freud · Josef Breuer
- The Courier · Oleg Penkovsky
- Russian Whispers · Viktor
- Strandgut – Der Usedom-Krimi · Lucjan Gadocha
- Treadstone · Yuri Leniov
- Mutterliebe – Der Usedom-Krimi · Lucjan Gadocha
- Percht · Truck Driver‘s Voice
- Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod · Witrenko
- McMafia · Vadim Kalyagin
- Jupiter's Moon · Gabor Stern
- I Watch Her Sleep
- My Happy Family · Soso
- Hostages · Levan
- Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free · Friedrich Carl Andreas
- The Puppet Syndrome · Boris
- Bridge of Spies · Soviet Main Interrogator
- Thank You for Bombing
- Deutschland · Alexej Stepanov
- Under Electric Clouds · Nikolai
- B/W · Нурик
- Neben der Spur · Alexej Kuznet
- After Love · The Painter
- Bis zum Ende der Welt · Zano
- Unter Feinden · Idris Maher
- Invasion · Konstantin
- Blutadler · Wassyl Witrenko
- Love with an Accent
- Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen · Nikolai Ilinescu
- Letzte Spur Berlin · Khalil Rahimi
- The Fourth State
- Frühlings Erwachen · The Stranger
- Russisch Roulette · Alexej Romanowitsch
- Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht · Alex
- Winter's Daughter · Alexei
- Homeland · Mirov
- 4 Days in May · Major
- From Tokyo · Rescuer
- Frühling · Cem Oktay
- My Best Enemy · Moritz Haiden
- Shades of Happiness · Niklas Psathos
- The Cameramurderer · Thomas
- Schnell ermittelt · Besim Kasapi
- Paper Soldier · Doctor Daniil Pokrovsky
- Homicide Unit Istanbul · Ahmet Demir
- The Rainbowmaker · Datho
- Mediator · Hitman
- Mord in bester Gesellschaft · Dr. Ernesto Mendez
- Not All Were Murderers · Russischer Offizier
- Liebes Leid und Lust · André Schott
- Himmel über Australien · Phil
- Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau · Thomas Landsberg
- Vienna Crime Squad · Hakim Kostres, Boris Aljechin
- Schön, dass es Dich gibt · Peters Freund Gérard
- Die Gerichtsmedizinerin · Piontek
- Georgisches Liebeslied
- Sterne leuchten auch am Tag · Ruben Costa
- Das Bernstein-Amulett · Michael Belajew
- Cattolica · Martin
- SOKO Köln · Luan Kreshnik
- Postalioni
- August der Glückliche
- Icarus · Milan
- Verlorenes Land · Jean-Pierre
- Nowhere in Africa · Walter Redlich