Mikhail Basmadjian: ‘Don’t expect anything from people. It’ll make you angry when you grow older’
Actor Mikhail Basmadjian tells all in our Q&A
4 March 2021, 6:39am
by Laura Calleja
Mikhail Basmadjian has been acting on stage, film and TV for the past 30 years after having completed the Manoel Theatre Academy for Dramatic Arts (MTADA) course. In 2018, Mikhail was nominated in the category Artist of the Year at the Premju Ghall-Arti. He loves to travel, cook, try exotic foods and has a great passion for scuba diving and underwater photography. Mikhail can next be seen in Ir-Raġel Li Ħawwad Lil Martu Ma’ Kappell at Teatru Manoel on 12, 13 and 14 March 2021.
Anthony Manduca pays tribute to some of the prominent Maltese people who died this year.
Cardinal Prospero Grech, died on December 30, 2019, aged 94.
The Augustinian scholar who became the second cardinal in Maltese history was one of 22 cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in February 2012. Once described as “possibly the most intelligent man alive” by English priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in an article in the Catholic Herald, Cardinal Grech served as a professor at the Augustine Institute in Rome. In 1970, he co-founded the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum attached to the Lateran University in Rome and served as its president from 1971 to 1979. In 2011, he was appointed a Companion of the National Order of Merit.