Dilorom Kambarova

Dilorom Fayzullayevna Kambarova (Qambarova) was born on 27 April 1957 in Margilan, Uzbek SSR. As a schoolgirl she dreamed of becoming an orientalist. Director Ali Khamraev noticed her at a pioneer camp and cast her as Kumri in «Bez strakha» («Without Fear», 1971), her first film role.

In Khamraev's «The Seventh Bullet» (1972) she played Aigul, the role that made her known across the Soviet Union. From 1974 she was an actress of the Uzbekfilm studio.

She studied at the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute and then at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, graduating in 1982.

Her films include «Ognennyy bereg», «Abu Rayhan Beruni» (Reikhana), «Legend of Siavush» (Farida), «Dom pod zharkim solntsem» (Nadira), «V noch lunnogo zatmeniya», the series «Ognennye dorogi» (Zubeida), «Pirates of the 20th Century» (Maa), «Odin i bez oruzhiya» (Dilya), «Secrets of Madame Wong» (Tioti) and «Priklyucheniya Arslana». Her filmography runs to over thirty works from 1971 to 1993.

In 1975 she received the second prize of the All-Union Film Festival for her role in «Abu Rayhan Beruni». In 1978, at the 11th All-Union Film Festival in Yerevan, she won the prize for best female role for «Dom pod zharkim solntsem». In 1985 she was named Honoured Artist of the Uzbek SSR.

In the early 1990s she left cinema and moved to the United States, where she worked, among other things, as a model in Seattle.