---
name: "Karren Karagulian"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karren-karagulian"
fi1m_id: "karren-karagulian"
imdb_id: "nm1199489"
tmdb_id: 966306
wikidata_id: "Q131389619"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-21T04:27:13.257098+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Karren Karagulian

## Identity

Karren Karagulian

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karren-karagulian
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karren-karagulian
- **IMDb ID:** nm1199489
- **TMDB ID:** 966306
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131389619
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karren_Karagulian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131389619, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1199489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/966306

Actor. Born 1 January 1969 in Yerevan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1969, Yerevan
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** کارن کاراگولیان
- **Frequently works with:** [Sean Baker](https://film.one/person/sean-baker.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 85, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (2), 2020s 84 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 86 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $69m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karren_Karagulian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131389619, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1199489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/966306

## Coming up

- *THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH* (2026-11-25) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-further-mis-adventures-of-cliff-booth.md)
- *The Man with the Bag* (2026-12-02) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-with-the-bag.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Anora*](https://film.one/film/anora.md) (84)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Tangerine*](https://film.one/film/tangerine.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Karren Karagulian

> Karren Karagulian brings a welcome ordinariness to Sean Baker’s comedies. We particularly recommend his work in *Anora*, where the effort of dealing with other people becomes funny without quite letting us forget who has reason to be afraid.

In *Anora* (2024), Toros arrives to deal with a marriage on behalf of Ivan’s family, and Karren Karagulian makes the job look exhausting. Alongside Vache Tovmasyan’s Garnik and Yura Borisov’s Igor, he is part of a group struggling to get Ani under control. Sean Baker holds the shots long enough for the men’s exhaustion to become part of the joke. We laughed, then felt uncomfortable, because Ani’s fear was there beneath the commotion. Karagulian is funny in company, leaving room for the other actors and for that discomfort.

Baker has been his principal collaborator since *Four Letter Words* (2000), in which he played a petrol station clerk. *Prince of Broadway* (2008) gave him the more substantial role of Levon, but his work remained largely within Baker’s independent films until *Anora* brought wider attention. On *Tangerine* (2015), he was also an associate producer, contributing Armenian dialogue and helping with casting. There is practical work behind that ease on screen: his contribution includes helping decide how people speak and who should play them.

As Razmik, the Armenian cab driver in *Tangerine*, he supplies the unforced, everyday presence the part needs. We believe in him; we are less persuaded that the film needs so much of his separate story. Baker edits the film himself, and his rapid cutting keeps the comedy brisk without losing the rapport between Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor. Returning to their friendship restores a tension and intimacy that the wider encounters cannot consistently provide. Karagulian is good here, and we recommend the film, but his strand does not always justify the interruption.

The more substantial part in *Anora* is useful evidence against treating him as someone who merely supplies a bit of local detail. Toros has a job to do, other people to answer to and a situation that refuses to settle down; Karagulian makes that pressure clear without needing the film to pause for him. We would happily watch him carry more of a film. Give him a specific predicament, rather than a few lines of general irritation.

## Biography

Karren Karagulian is an Armenian-American actor. Born in 1969 in Soviet Armenia, he immigrated to New York City in his early twenties.

He is known for his long collaboration with director Sean Baker, appearing in all of Baker’s feature films since *Four Letter Words* (2000). His roles include parts in *Take Out* (2004), *Prince of Broadway* (2008), *Starlet* (2012), *Tangerine* (2015), *The Florida Project* (2017) and *Red Rocket* (2021). He received an associate producer credit on *Tangerine*.

In 2024 Karagulian played Toros in Baker’s *Anora* and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Anora* (2024), Fi1m 84, as Toros — [page](https://film.one/film/anora.md)
- *The Florida Project* (2017), Fi1m 88, as Narek — [page](https://film.one/film/the-florida-project.md)
- *Tangerine* (2015), Fi1m 84, as Razmik — [page](https://film.one/film/tangerine.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Man with the Bag* (2026), Actor — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-with-the-bag.md)
- *THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH* (2026), Actor — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-further-mis-adventures-of-cliff-booth.md)
- *Anora* (2024), as Toros — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/anora.md)
- *How to Fill the Unfillable Hole Inside You* (2023), as Bernard
- *Red Rocket* (2021), as Arash (voice)
- *This Land* (2019), as Azat
- *The Florida Project* (2017), as Narek — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-florida-project.md)
- *Debris* (2017), as Tadevos
- *Tom's Dilemma* (2016), as Frankie
- *Tangerine* (2015), as Razmik · Associate Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/tangerine.md)
- *Welcome Home* (2014), as Babken · Writer
- *River of Fundament* (2014), as Plater
- *Starlet* (2012), as Arash
- *Prince of Broadway* (2010), as Levon
- *Take Out* (2008), as Chicken or Beef
- *Four Letter Words* (2000), as Gas Station Attendant
- *After*, Actor
- *Positano*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Cast and crew of Anora at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-71f627dccc2a.jpg) Cast and crew of Anora at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Cast_and_crew_of_Anora_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_and_crew_of_Anora_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast of Anora at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-596c3b55ede9.jpg) Cast of Anora at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Cast_of_Anora_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_Anora_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Karren Karagulia, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-9d3ab23e57ff.jpg) Karren Karagulia, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Karren_Karagulia_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Karren_Karagulia_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Karren Karagulia, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-6575defcb524.jpg) Karren Karagulia, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Karren_Karagulia_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg/1280px-Karren_Karagulia_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Karren Karagulian](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-269a611918b1.jpg) Karren Karagulian — Image via TMDB
- ![Karren Karagulian](https://film.one/media/person/10581/gallery-e1bb3abd6be4.jpg) Karren Karagulian — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Karren_Karagulian_at_the_2024_New_York_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Karren_Karagulian_at_the_2024_New_York_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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