| Niko Gotsiridze | |
| Birth Date: | 16 February 1871 |
| Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR |
| Nationality: | Georgian |
| Occupation: | actor, director |
Niko Gotsiridze (Nico Gotziridze, Нико Гоциридзе) (16 February, 1871 – 30 July, 1949[1]) was a Georgian actor, director and a comedian who charmed spectators with his sense of humor.[2] For fifteen years he managed the Tbilisi Ossetian Theatre.[3]
Gotsiridze was the son of a tailor, but loved the stage, and first took to the boards at the age of twelve. He developed a comedy act and played the local working-class establishments until, in 1922, he joined a professional touring troupe under the director Kote Marjanishvili (Марджановым). He was much lauded and in 1924 he was made a People's Artist of the Georgia SSR.[4]