HYE JAMS NETWORKArtist Spotlight
Between the Notes · Season Two
An actress whose story reaches beyond the stage and screen: Angela speaks openly about how Jesus, Revelation Church, and Prophey Lovy’s teachings shaped her healing, renewed purpose, and commitment to helping women and children.
The Artist
Acting was a childhood ambition, but Angela Sargsyan was also an outstanding student in science. She recalled that her father worried acting was not a suitable path for a woman. She pursued it anyway: after passing the entrance exams, she found her way into Armenia’s dramatic theater and began with small parts. Her story starts with the determination to choose a creative life even when the people around her imagined a different future.
A Public Ordeal
Sargsyan speaks candidly about the sex scandal that brought intense public shame and cost her work. She says intimate videos were taken from her computer and posted online without her consent. She describes changing her appearance to avoid recognition, keeping her daughter close and safe, and going nearly three years without work. The episode follows how she rebuilt her life and found a way to help other women and children facing abuse and trauma. Watch Angela’s full interview on Between the Notes.
Her Stage Career
Small theater parts grew into a substantial acting career. In the interview, Sargsyan describes taking on nearly twenty leading roles, along with work in films and television. A music video and a popular TV project brought a new level of recognition when she was about 26. She remembered being recognized everywhere, while also balancing demanding filming days with raising her young daughter. The conversation gives space to both the work that made her known and the personal cost of that visibility.
A New Country
Sargsyan says she came to the United States at 35 with her eleven-year-old daughter, about $200, and no English. She had to learn the language while figuring out who she wanted to become beyond the career she had built in Armenia. She also described completing the process for a green card based on extraordinary ability herself. Starting again meant confronting practical uncertainty and asking what kind of life and education would give her a lasting sense of purpose.
Finding Purpose
A turning point came when a friend connected Sargsyan with an Armenian woman who had recently arrived in Las Vegas, was pregnant, and was experiencing abuse. Sargsyan invited the woman and her daughter to stay in her home. She wanted to help, but did not yet know how; conversations with people at church helped point her toward training. That personal encounter changed her questions about what to study into a concrete desire to support people facing violence and upheaval.
Advocacy
Sargsyan describes completing a 40-hour domestic-violence victim-support training, followed by two years of education in substance-abuse counseling. She says she went on to work as a domestic-violence counselor in an intensive outpatient substance-use treatment program. Her studies in psychology continue that path. She speaks about advocacy as work that calls for preparation, patience, and compassion, shaped by what she has lived through and by the people she has met along the way.
A Message for Women
Reflecting on her own experience, Sargsyan encourages women facing abuse to tell someone they trust and to seek help from a specialized domestic-violence counselor or other professionals. She stresses that isolation can make a painful situation feel impossible, while a trusted person can help someone begin to see a path forward. Hear her share that message in her own words in the full Between the Notes conversation.
Compassion
In her counseling work, Sargsyan met people living with substance use and the trauma behind it. She talks about how that work challenged her earlier assumptions and helped her recognize the pain people carry. Her own history did not make every situation the same, but it gave her a point of connection and a reason to listen with empathy. The conversation traces how a once-private hardship became part of the way she approaches service.
Faith
Sargsyan says Jesus was always in her heart, and that she trusted God to care for her through upheaval and her move to America. She described searching for a church where she could keep growing in her faith, then called finding Revelation Church a turning point. She credits Prophey Lovy’s teaching and her baptism there with helping her understand her own pain and forgive herself after years of self-blame. She says that spiritual change brought freedom and a sense of being made whole. Today, she serves as a translator at the church, carrying its message from English into Armenian.
Family
For several years in America, Sargsyan and her daughter spent holidays without their extended family nearby. She says her parents later joined them after receiving green cards, and holiday gatherings became something she could share with others who felt far from home. She described opening her home for Thanksgiving and Christmas to people without family in the country. Hospitality, in her telling, grew from remembering what it felt like to be new and alone.
Offstage
The long conversation also leaves room for Angela’s playful side. She jokes about having a “master’s degree in scuba diving,” then talks about weddings, dancing until the end of the night, and swapping heels for comfortable shoes when the party keeps going. Those lighter moments sit naturally alongside her serious reflections: they show a woman who still loves to laugh, celebrate, and enjoy being with people.
Hye Jams Take
While we usually feature musicians in our spotlight, Angela deserves to be recognized because her work as an actress has reached audiences across Armenian theater and screen, and her life reflects an artist’s courage beyond performance. In this conversation, she speaks openly about how Jesus, Revelation Church, and Prophey Lovy shaped her faith, healing, and purpose. She has turned painful experience into compassionate service for women and children facing abuse and trauma. Her artistry, resilience, faith, and service make her story worthy of the Hye Jams spotlight.