Magda Harout
(Chorus)

represents the third generation of the acting family known as the Armenian Barrymores. Dividing her artistic career between theater, television, film and commercials, she has received eight theatrical awards (Drama-Logue, LA Weekly, LA Drama Critics Circle) and starred in such vehicles as Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Suddenly Last Summer, Big Fish, Madwoman of Chaillot, Waltz of the Toreadors. Most recently the Pasadena Playhouse was her home for their production of Les Laisons Dangereuses which followed her role in Kiss at City Hall. One of her favorite performances was in the Mark Taper production of Nine Armenians which went on to the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Television audiences have seen her guesting on The Agency, The Practice, Without a Trace, Days of our Lives, just to mention a few. Film credits include A Wake in Providence (opening later this year), The Elevator with Martin Landau, My life With Michael Keaton and PBS’ Song of the Lark for Masterpiece Theater. One of the first artists invited to Russia and Armenia on the Cultural Exchange Program, she was asked to stay for one year. In Armenia she performed, in Armenian, at the Sundukian and Khaplonian theatres and on television and radio.

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