Renowned Armenian actor, director, Distinguished Worker of Arts of Armenia, Vigen Stepanyan, has died of a stroke at the age of 68.

Stepanyan played more than 100 roles in various theaters, staged 43 plays in various countries and languages, starred in about 50 films in various studios of the ex-USSR, acted in more than 60 TV plays, wrote and staged more than ten plays, and two short films and one full-length film were shot with his script.