{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{short description|Bulgarian actor and athlete}} {{Infobox person | name = Assen Blatechki | birth_name = | image = Асен Блатечки.jpg | caption = Blatechki in 2010 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|03|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Sofia, Bulgaria | occupation = Actor | children = 2 | partner = Katerina Goranova Dilyana Popova
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'''Assen Emilov Blatechki''' ({{langx|bg|Асен Емилов Блатечки}}; born 22 March 1971) is a Bulgarian actor.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.btv.bg/seriali/familiata/aktiori/story/1924506884-Asen_Blatechki.html|title=Асен Блатечки в официалния сайт на сериала "Фамилията" по bTV|accessdate=29 October 2014|publisher=btv.bg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605094156/http://www.btv.bg/seriali/familiata/aktiori/story/1924506884-Asen_Blatechki.html|archive-date=5 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Acting and television career== Blatechki appeared in a number of Bulgarian films including ''Steps in the Sand'' (Bulgarian: ''Стъпки в пясъка'') and ''The Foreigner'' (Bulgarian: ''Чужденецът''). He has also taken roles in foreign films.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://theatre.art.bg/%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8__933|title=Асен Блатечки - биография и филми|accessdate=29 October 2014 |publisher=theatre.art.bg}}</ref>
Blatechki is also a TV presenter and has been a judge on ''Bulgaria Searches for a Talent''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://talant.btv.bg/article/news/lyuben-dilov-sin-esil-dyuran-vanya-tsvetkova-i-asen-blatechki-sa-zhurito-v-tretiya-sezon-na-balgariya-tarsi-talant.html|title=Любен Дилов-син, Есил Дюран, Ваня Цветкова и Асен Блатечки са журито в третия сезон на "България търси талант"|accessdate=28 December 2018 |date=January 2014|publisher=talant.btv.bg}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.iwoman.bg/-Asen-Blatechki-otnovo-zhuri-v-Bylgariq-tyrsi-talant-509902.html|title=Асен Блатечки отново жури в България търси талант|accessdate=28 December 2018 |date=26 November 2015|publisher=iwoman.bg}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}
==Sports achievements== Blatechki participated in numerous sports, in particular karate. He was the karate champion of Bulgaria between 1989 and 1992.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.slava.bg/profiles/6.html|title=Профил на Асен Блатечки|accessdate=29 October 2014 |publisher=slava.bg}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Blatechki and actress Dilyana Popova have one son. He also has a daughter, Katerina, from his previous marriage to Katerina Goranova.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.slava.bg/news/66863.html|title=Блатечки проговори за сина си|accessdate=29 October 2014 |publisher=slava.bg}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0087807|name=Asen Blatechki}}
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