Dilbar Ikromova

Dilbar Ikromova (also spelled Ikramova) was born on 17 July 1947 in the Bekabad district of the Tashkent region. She graduated from the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute in 1970. As a student she learned a great deal from the directors Tula Khojaev and Turob Khojaev, and in 1970 Tula Khojaev invited her to join the theatre’s company.

She spent her whole career at the Hamza Theatre, now the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre, where she often played mothers and grandmothers. Her stage roles include Feokla Ivanovna in Gogol’s “Marriage” and Momo in “Chimildiq”; she also appeared in “The Golden Wall”, and colleagues remember her in “Uzbek Dance”.

She worked in film from the 1980s. The role of Sotti in Melis Abzalov’s “The Rebellion of the Brides” (“Kelinlar qo‘zg‘oloni”, 1984) made her widely known. She later appeared in “Chimildiq” (1999, as Momo), “Chaengul” (2000), the series “Gyulchatay” (2011) and its sequel. Other films named among her credits include “Sharif and Ma’rif” and “Afgan”. In all she appeared in nearly forty films.

She was named People’s Artist of Uzbekistan in 2001. Dilbar Ikromova died in Tashkent on 25 August 2020 of complications of COVID-19. By a presidential decree of 24 August 2021 she was posthumously awarded the Order “Fidokorona xizmatlari uchun”.