Serge Avédikian (Armenian: Սերժ Ավետիքյան; born 1 December 1955), sometimes credited as Serje Avétikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize.
His parents were born in France, children of survivors of the Armenian genocide.
In 1947, influenced by Joseph Stalin's and Maurice Thorez's propaganda, they left to rejoin the motherland, where Avédikian attended the French school of Yerevan.
He had his stage debut in college, in his professor's amateur theater company.
At the same time, he pursued a career as a theater, movie and television actor.