25 Facts About Sophie Shevardnadze

Sophie Shevardnadze is the creator and executive producer of the show Simply Complicated on the platform Yandex.

Sophie Shevardnadze is the host of SophieCo Visionaries, and between 2006 and 2015 she was a presenter on the radio station Echo of Moscow.

Sophie Shevardnadze was born on 23 September 1978 in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.

Sophie Shevardnadze studied in Tbilisi until the 8th grade at public school No 55 and developed an early passion for dance and music, learning the piano and taking up ballet.

Sophie Shevardnadze often moved between Moscow and Tbilisi until the age of 10, before eventually going to Paris where her father worked in the diplomatic service.

Sophie Shevardnadze graduated from Ecole Active Bilingue and the Conservatoire international de musique de Paris with double qualifications from the British and French Educational systems with top grades.

When she was just 17, Sophie Shevardnadze entered the Social Communications Department at Boston University, a year earlier than most of her peers, and later transferred in her second year to Emerson College to focus on a major in Cinema Studies.

Sophie Shevardnadze continued her post-graduate studies in TV journalism at New York University, where she achieved honors.

Sophie Shevardnadze's father is Paata Sophie Shevardnadze, a Doctor of Philological Science in the USSR, author of philological and philosophical studies, international diplomat, worked as a career diplomat with UNESCO for 20 years, and her mother is Nina Akhvlediani, a philologist, English language specialist, literary translator from French and English into Georgian.

Sophie Shevardnadze's grandfather, Eduard Sophie Shevardnadze, was a Soviet and Georgian politician who was the USSR's last Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Georgia, who is credited with paving the way for modern Georgia.

In September 2019, Shevardnadze released her own program SophieCo Visionaries in English.

Sophie Shevardnadze meets with those breaking down barriers in their fields or guests with a cutting-edge take on the present and future: from neuroscience to art and quantum physics.

Sophie Shevardnadze is a firm believer that one of the best ways to deliver the truth to viewers is through interviews, giving the blunt views of guests and challenging them on key ideas and opinions.

From 2001 to 2003, Sophie Shevardnadze completed an internship as a producer for the American television channel ABC.

Since 2004, Sophie Shevardnadze has been a permanent judge on the Georgian version of the TV show "Dancing with the Stars".

Dance and ballet have been an important part of Sophie Shevardnadze's life since she was a child, and she proved it was more than just a passion when she became a finalist in the Russian version of the show.

For two years from 2003, Sophie Shevardnadze was a correspondent on the program "Droeba" from New York and Paris.

Since September 2016, Sophie Shevardnadze has hosted the talk show About Love on Russia's Channel One dedicated to solving family problems alongside musician Sergey Shnurov.

From 2006 to 2008, Sophie Shevardnadze was the co-host of the Hearing Test program with Vitaliy Dymarsky.

From 2014 to 2015, Sophie Shevardnadze was co-host on the program Cover with Alexander Plushev.

Sophie Shevardnadze writes interview columns for GQ, Esquire, Kommersant and Russian Pioneer.

Sophie Shevardnadze became the first domestic journalist to be given the role.

Sophie Shevardnadze was a finalist of the project Dancing with the Stars on Russia-1 TV channel with partners Denis Kasper, professional dancer, and actor Ivan Oganesyan.

Sophie Shevardnadze is fluent in Georgian, Russian, French, English, and Italian.

Sophie Shevardnadze gave birth to a son in March 2021.