Ikroma Boltayeva

Ikroma Boltayeva (listed on the Russian film site Kino-Teatr.ru as Ikrama Baltayeva) was an Uzbek stage and film actress born in 1916. She studied at the Tashkent theatre technical school and then worked in the theatres of Kashkadarya (Karshi) and Samarkand; until 1945 she played at the Samarkand music and drama theatre.

From the mid-1940s she was an actress of the Hamza Uzbek Drama Theatre in Tashkent, where she mostly played heroines. Her roles include Jamila in Hamza's The Rich Man and the Servant, Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, and Saltanat in Abdulla Qahhor's play Shohi so'zana.

She appeared in twelve film projects between 1957 and 1992. Her best-known part is Halima in the film Mahallada duv-duv gap (1960, in Russian Ob etom govorit vsya makhalla); she also acted in Sinchalak (1961), Tuylar muborak (1978), Suyunchi (1982), and in filmed stage plays such as Oltin devor (1975), Har to'kisda bir ayb (1982) and Qiyomat qarz (1982).

She was named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1956. She died in 1993. In 2026 she was posthumously awarded the Order of Labour Glory (Mehnat shuhrati) by a decree of the President of Uzbekistan.