Nana Jorjadze

{{Short description|Georgian film director and scriptwriter}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Nana Jorjadze
ნანა ჯორჯაძე

| image = Nana Jorjadze Odessa International Film Festival.jpg

| image_size = 260px

| caption = Jorjadze in 2013

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|8|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia)

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| nationality = Georgian

| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Filmmaker
• screenwriter
• actress

}}

| yearsactive = 1977–present

| alma_mater = Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University

| spouse =

| family = Mikhail Kvirikadze

}}

Nana Jorjadze ({{lang-ka|ნანა ჯორჯაძე}}; born 24 August 1948) is a Georgian film director, screenwriter and actress. Her work has received several accolades, including an Academy Award nomination.{{cite web | url = http://agenda.ge/news/31494/eng | title =Georgian filmmaker honoured for contribution to world cinema | publisher = Agenda | access-date = 2 May 2016}}

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts (1972). Having worked as an architect in the years 1968 to 1974, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough that won her the Caméra d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival,{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/148/year/1987.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Robinsonada or My English Grandfather |accessdate=2009-07-23|work=festival-cannes.com}} and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for an Academy Award.{{cite web | url = http://www.britishgeorgiansociety.org/films/Events/12-future-events/67-a-chef-in-love-1996-nana-jorjadze-5th-july-2012 | title = A Chef in Love (1996) Nana Jorjadze 5th July 2012 | publisher = Britishgeorgiansociety.org | access-date = 2 May 2016}}{{cite web | url = http://www.geocinema.ge/ge/scenari.php?kod5=234 | title =საქართველოს კინემატოგრაფისტთა შემოქმედებითი კავშირის წევრი | publisher = Geocinema.ge | access-date = 2 May 2016}}

She is married to fellow Georgian writer and director Irakli Kvirikadze, who previously went by the name Irakli Mikhailovich Kvirikadze.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}