Sergey Ishkanovich Gazarov (Russian: Сергей Ишханович Газаров, Armenian: Սերգեյ Իշխանի Գազարով, romanized: Sergey Ishkhani Gazarov; born January 13, 1958) is a Russian and former Soviet actor and filmmaker of Armenian origin.

[1][2] Gazarov was born in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, in an Armenian family.

[3] In 1980, he graduated from the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, where he had been taught by Oleg Tabakov.

In the same year, Gazarov was awarded the Russia's Union of Theatre Workers prize for his direction.

From 1998 to 2001, he served as head director of the Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Moscow Drama Theatre.