EXCLUSIVE: Karren Karagulian, the Armenian-American actor greatest recognized for his work with Sean Baker on award-winning movies equivalent to Anora and The Florida Undertaking, has signed with Buchwald for illustration.
This signing comes after Anora‘s spectacular exhibiting at this yr’s Academy Awards, with 5 wins from six nominations. Karagulian was additionally lately invited to affix the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences following Anora‘s success.
In Baker’s Palme d’Or winner, launched by Neon final fall, a younger intercourse employee (Oscar winner Mikey Madison) from Brooklyn impulsively marries the son (Mark Eydelshteyn) of a Russian oligarch, solely to have their fairytale romance threatened when his dad and mom try and annul the wedding. Karagulian earned an Impartial Spirit Award nomination for his flip as Toros, the godfather and enforcer for the oligarch’s household, who’s tasked with dissolving the wedding.
A champion of indie cinema all through his 25+ yr profession, Karagulian kicked off his collaboration with Baker on the 2000 movie 4 Letter Phrases, which marked his function directorial debut. Since then, he has additionally starred in Prince of Broadway, Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida Undertaking, and Purple Rocket from the filmmaker, incomes the extra credit score of affiliate producer on 2015’s Tangerine.
Exterior his work with Baker, Karagulian is slated to star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, and Awkafina in The Man with the Bag, a vacation motion comedy from Amazon MGM Studios, which is presently in post-production. He continues to be represented by ColorCreative for administration and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis for authorized.
