Hovik Keuchkerian


Hovik Keuchkerian Burgui is a Spanish actor, stand-up comedian, and former boxer.

Biography

Hovik Keuchkerian Burgui was born in 1972, to an Armenian father and a Spanish mother in Beirut, Lebanon. He moved with his family to Spain at age three and was raised in Alpedrete.
Keuchkerian is a former boxer. He became a boxer and was Spanish Heavyweight Champion twice. After quitting boxing, he started a new career as a stand-up comedian and writer. He has published four books, the last of them entitled Resiliente. His performance playing a boxing trainer in the 2013 film Scorpion in Love earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.