Born in Egypt, into a family of Armenian musicians. He is a graduate of the Kalousdian National School in Cairo and of the Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia. He studied at and graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute. He became a double winner of the Drama-Logue award of Los Angeles, California, as best actor and best director. He was awarded the Movses Khorenatsi Order by the President of the RA and the gold medal of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, and received the prize named after the classic of Armenian literature Vahan Tekeyan. He received the Golden Star Halo award from the Southern California Motion Picture Council. He has translated more than fifty works from English and French into Armenian, and from Armenian into English he has translated the operas “Anoush”, “Arshak II” and “Karine” and more than twenty poems by Vahan Tekeyan, published by California State University and the University of Michigan. He has played in more than 150 productions and appeared in about 30 films. He twice won the Drama-Logue award of Los Angeles, California, as best actor. From 1980 to 1990 he worked in Hollywood. In 1990 he settled in France, where in 1997 he founded the “Tigran Chukhajian” Research Centre. He is a founding member of Irina Brook's theatre company (CIB) in Paris. He now works at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema.

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