“I am Armenian American.” — Mike Connors Quote

I am Armenian American.

Barbecuing shish kebab is my mainstay. Other than that, I'm not really much of a cook.

I usually don't read a script until the day before at lunch or at night when I go home.

I guess our two favorite family dishes are stroganoff and caramel flan.

When I was a kid, my greatest escape was motion pictures.

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.