- Three children with his soul mate Irina Bruno: Avelinda Bruno and Veradzhein Bruno - the two daughters, Ian Bruno - the son. Their eldest brother is George Richard Bruno - the very first child he has had.
- Had to quit a promising career as soccer player due to a congenital issue while in a trial period with Football Club Zenit, team of the Russian Premier League who regularly takes part in the UEFA Champions League.
- Has performed in a plethora of languages, including Latin, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Finnish, Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese and a tons of dialects, also in theatre.
- Had to learn Armenian to play his character Samvel Petrosov for the shooting of Bayazet (2003).
- The Playmaker (2005), written, produced, directed, starred and scored by himself, was honored at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Italian Film Academy among the best short films of the year whilst developing its feature length subject on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox, who optioned the script a year earlier and with whom 1.One Way Films signed a production deal. The story focused on an unknown masterly hitman whom both Interpol and the Russian military had unsuccessfully chased all over Europe for years but suddenly tracked in the Russia's Capital of culture. Later on, precisely in November 2007, Twentieth Century Fox globally released the movie Hitman (2007).
- Composer, songwriter and leader of early '90s spaghetti-western pop rock band Arkansas.
- Born on the same day as William Shakespeare and Shirley Temple.
- First choice as KGB Colonel Anatoli Victorovich in The Americans (2013) as well as as separatist leader Anton Ruzinsky in Behind Enemy Lines (2017). However, due to force majeure, he was unable to join both projects.
- Author of the award winning short length sport drama screenplay "The Last Penalty" (1998), from which the RAI Fiction TV Movie L'ultimo rigore (2002) is based.
- He is of Persian, Indian, Greek, French and Slavic descents.
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