- Born
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Rati Tsiteladze was born in post-Soviet Georgia. He studied acting and filmmaking at the Hybrid Conservatory, Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of Locarno Academy, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, HFPA Film Independent and Berlinale Talent Project Market.
At age 21, he won the title of World Champion in martial arts, but in 2014, when filmmaking became the overpowering passion in his life, he left his fighting career and founded ArtWay Film production. Rati directed and produced several short films that won over 50 awards worldwide and screened at more than 300 festivals, including Melbourne, Hong Kong, Leeds and Locarno. His recent work Prisoner of Society (2018) won numerous Oscar® qualifying awards and it is the first Georgian short documentary nominated for European Film Academy Awards. With his feature film project, The Empty House he won the Eurimages Award at TIFF and Special Mention at Locarno. He was selected among 6 directors at Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and won the first HFPA/Film Independent Award by Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globes®.- IMDb Mini Biography By: N
- SpousesOlga Slusareva(March 1, 2021 - present)Nino Varsimashvili(August 22, 2013 - February 6, 2021) (divorced)
- Frequently uses long takes
- Rati gained 30 pounds of muscle for the leading and critical role of Hero (2013). He performed his own stunts, which included scaling a mountain and swimming in freezing water.
- He performs his own stage combat and stunts.
- Rati has been described as one of the Georgia's most attractive men - 2012.
- I owe my success to my failure.
- More we remember, more is the chance to know who we are.
- Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.
- Is my imagination as important as reality? Sometimes I think YES... It's imagination that makes reality tolerable... Sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and fall in to the endless imagination...
- When the first time I saw you, when you have been totally stranger, suddenly, somehow everything completely disappeared and I realized that I found it... true love... From that moment nothing else matters...
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