Farida Muminova

Farida Muminova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She was born on 23 November 1957 in the settlement of Lesnoy, Kirov Region; her father was Uzbek and her mother Russian. In 1976 she graduated from the Tashkent Choreographic School and in 1977–1979 danced in the Bakhor State Ensemble.

Her first film role was Gulbakhor in The Seventh Djinn, made at the Uzbekfilm studio. In 1983 she graduated from the acting faculty of VGIK (Boris Chirkov's workshop). She later appeared in Shock, The Apartment, Hot Summer in Kabul, Battle of the Three Kings and other films.

She worked at the Mayakovsky Russian Drama Theatre in Dushanbe (1986–1991), the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Magnitogorsk (1991–2004) and, from 2006, in the theatre led by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Her stage roles included Ranevskaya (The Cherry Orchard), Margarita (The Master and Margarita), Martha (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and both Arkadina and Nina Zarechnaya (The Seagull). She won the best actress prize at the Theatre Spring festival in Chelyabinsk in 1993 and 1999, and in 2002 was named Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.

She died on 31 January 2024 in Magnitogorsk.