Hojiakbar Nurmatov

Hojiakbar Nurmatov was born on 25 November 1944 in Tashkent. After school he entered the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute and graduated in 1968.

From 1966 until the end of his life, nearly forty years, he worked as an actor in the company of the Hamza Uzbek State Academic Drama Theatre (now the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre).

He came to the cinema in 1968 with the film "A Guy and a Girl". His busiest years on screen were the late 1980s and early 1990s, with roles in "Code of Silence", "A Chief for One Shift", "The Dream Seller", "Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg", "The Secret of the Ferns", "The Shameless One" and "The Red Train". In 1998 he played the militia major Mahmud Saliev in the series "Shaitanat". He created the character of Alisher-aka in "Boys in the Sky" (2002) and its 2004 sequel, and also appeared in the series "The Twins" (2004) and the film "Hoja Nasreddin: The Game Begins" (2006).

He also took part in dubbing foreign films into Uzbek: an article of the national news agency UzA names him among the leading masters of Uzbek dubbing of the 1960s to 1980s.

He was named Honoured Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1989 and later became People's Artist of Uzbekistan. He died in Tashkent in 2007. In 2026 a presidential decree awarded him the Order "Mehnat shuhrati" posthumously.