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Anna Condo was born in Yerevan, Armenia and grew up in Nogent-sur-Marne, a suburb of Paris, France. Since 1989, she has been living and working in New York City. After graduating
from high school with a baccalaureate in philosophy and literature,
she joined the Cours D’Art Dramatique Florent for three years
and then went on to study method acting with Corine Blue. Anna continued her work in New York, where she attended the Lee Strasberg Institute and studied privately with Marsha Haufrecht. She also performed lead roles in more than twenty American short films. Additionally, she has published and edited "AH Allen," a limited-edition tribute book to the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg with images and texts by forty-six artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians such as Robert Frank, Dennis Hopper, Gus Van Sant, William S. Burroughs, Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Joe Strummer, Philip Glass and Louise Bourgeois, to name a few. Since 2001, she has written and directed three 35 mm short films. ALCHEMY, based on Chekhov’s short story "A Work of Art," won numerous international awards and was nominated at AFI Fest 2002. CANDID will be premiering at Damah 2005 and TROUBLE SENS with Alexandra Stewart, Aurélien Recoing, Erin Roth and Cyril Descours is currently in post-production. Anna is married to artist George Condo and together they have two daughters, Eléonore and Raphaelle. ANNA ANSWERS DAMAH’S SIX-PACK OF QUESTIONS 1.
Who has had the greatest influence on your work? Buster Keaton,
Cassavetes, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Truffaut, Fellini, Visconti, Bergman,
Bunuel, Antonioni, Fassbinder, Minnelli, Paradjanov, Resnais, De
Palma, Nichols, Varda, Tati, Leone, Polanski, Stone, Zeffirelli,
Malle, P. T. Anderson, Henri Alekan, Sarah Bernhardt, Anna Magnani,
Peter Lorre, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift, Liz Taylor, Richard
Burton, Laurel and Hardy, Julie Christie, Elaine May, Sidney Poitier,
Bardot, Peter Falk, Michael Caine, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert,
Jim Carrey, Charlize Theron, the Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian
Anderson, La Fontaine, Dumas, Julien Green, Moliere, Dostoievsky,
Sagan, Guitry, Boris Vian, Carravaggio, Bernini, Manet, Magritte,
Mondrian, Warhol, Francis Bacon, Billie Holiday, Houdini, Mozart,
Shostakovitch, Bernard Herrmann, Morricone, Maria Callas, Miles
Davis, Glenn Gould, Sinatra, the Temptations, the Beatles, Sid Vicious,
Eminem, Achille Zavatta, Nijinski, Sylvie Guillem, Tom and Jerry,
007… 2. Which three films would you absolutely have to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island?
3.
Boiling it down to only three words—why do you love film? ”4.
What has been the toughest thing about pursuing a career in film? 5.
Who is the one actor that you would love to work with? 6. What are your five favorite “obscure” films?
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