[1] Born in the village of Nakieti in the highland province of Racha, Zurab Kapianidze graduated from Tbilisi State Theater Institute in 1961 and performed at the Meskhishvili Theater in Kutaisi from 1961 to 1964, when he moved to Tbilisi to join the Kartuli Pilmi film studio.
He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1979 and the State Prize in 1985.
His book, published in 1990, claimed that the Georgian alphabet was among the first writing systems in the world and attached cosmic-astronomic significance to it.
[3] From 1999 to 2003 Kapianidze was elected to the Parliament of Georgia as a non-party member running on the ticket of the block Aghordzineba ("Revival of Georgia") chaired by Aslan Abashidze.
[1] Zurab Kapianidze was buried at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.