Gediminas Girdvainis was born in 1944. in 1969 the actor graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatory. Since 1994 the actor worked in the Vilnius small theater, created bright roles in Rimos Tumin's plays. He has also acted in Šiauliai and Youth theaters. G. Girdvainis's roles usually differed in temperament, improvisations, comedy and tragedy.Gediminas Girdvainis was born in 1944. January 19 Kretinga. After graduating from the Conservatory, he played in Šiauliai for a year, then in the State Youth Theater. Since 1994 was an actor of the Vilnius State Small Theater.
Gediminas Girdvainis's creative biography includes close to 120 roles in theater, cinema and television. Among recent works, one could single out Šprich in M. Lermontov's "Masquerade" (dir. R. Tumin), Lukas Lukichi in N. Gogol's "Revisor" (dir. R. Tumin), Chebutykina in A. Chekhov's "Three Sisters" (dir. R. . Tumin), the Messenger in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" (dir. O. Koršunovas), Henek in T. Słobodzianek's "Our Class" (dir. Y. Ross), as well as a role in the play based on Martin Crimp's "The Republic of Happiness" (dir. M. Jančiauskas).
Feature film "Devil's Bride" (from the film strip)One of his most prominent roles is Avner Rozenthal in Rim Tumin's famous play "Smile for us, Lord" (1994) based on Grigorij Kanovičius. As the theater researcher Ramunė Balevičiūtė wrote, "Avneris Rozentalis, the dignified freak who is the arsonist of Girdvainis, wants more than anything to throw off the fate of a beggar, even though he fully understands that only death will free him from poverty." He would agree to turn into anything - a goat or a tree, just so he wouldn't have to walk through people with an outstretched hand."Nutcracker Feature FilmA large part of Girdvainis' professional life was occupied by cinema. He created memorable roles in such films as "Herkus Mantas" (dir. Marijonas Giedrys), "Jausmai" (dir. Algirdas Dausa and Almantas Grikevičius), "Ave, Vita!" (dir. Almantas Grikevičius), "Devil's Bride" (dir. Arūnas Žebriūnas) and many others. And the role of G. Girdvainios Jogaila in the LTV series "Giminės" undoubtedly raised the bar of the artistic level of this genre.
