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Ken Davitian

Birth name
Kenneth Davitian
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of birth
June 19, 1953
Date of death
Ethnicity
Armenian
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Davitian in 2013, photo by s_bukley /Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Kenneth Davitian

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: June 19, 1953

Ethnicity: Armenian

Ken Davitian is an American actor, comedian, and restaurateur. He is known for playing Azamat Bagatov in Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan . He is of Armenian ancestry. He speaks Armenian, and spoke the language throughout Borat .

His father, who had a waste management company, was a Soviet soldier in WWII, and was interned at an Armenische Legion camp in Stuttgart after being captured by Nazi soldiers. Ken’s grandparents survived the Armenian Genocide in the 1910s.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk