Fotima Rejametova

Fotima Rejametova was born on 27 July 1970 in Tashkent, in the family of the Soviet Uzbek actor Tugan Rejametov. In 1987 she entered the A. N. Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute and graduated in 1991 as a drama theatre and film actress.

Since 1991 she has worked at the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan. On its stage she has played Golda in «Fiddler on the Roof» after Sholem Aleichem, Marikita in Mérimée's «Woman-Devil», Esther (Dora Strang) in Shaffer's «Equus», Skirina in Gozzi's «Turandot», Zumrad in «Stars in the Palm» and other parts. Uzbek Wikipedia notes that at a 1995 theatre competition she was nominated for Best Female Role for Golda.

She came to film at the age of seven, in 1977, playing Rano in «House Under the Hot Sun». She later appeared in «Bomba» (1995), «The Little Doctor» (1998), «Sehrli qalpoqcha» and other films, and in the Russian-language series «On the Sunny Side of the Street» (2010). Her long collaboration with director Zulfiqor Musoqov began with «Bomba». Sources credit her with more than thirty films.

By presidential decree of 24 August 2001 she was named Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan; in 2019 she received the Order «Dustlik».