Lola Eltoyeva

Lola Eltoyeva was born on 4 September 1972 in Tashkent. In 1993 she began studying in the acting faculty of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute. She later became an associate professor at the State Institute of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan; Tashkent Afisha described her as a docent of the institute in 2025.

Besides film and stage roles she works in dubbing: according to the sources she has given her Uzbek voice to about 200 films and several TV series. Tashkent Afisha names her as the Uzbek voice of the Indian actress Kajol, which is why the press sometimes calls her the «Uzbek Kajol».

She began in film in 1994 with a small part in Sharof Boshbekov's «Masxaraboz» and appeared in the 1997 screen version of «O'tkan kunlar». Audiences came to know her through the role of Malika in «Quyoshi botmaydigan yurt», made in the years of independence. In all she has played in about 45 films.

Her filmography includes «Kelgindi kuyov» (2005, directed by Rustam Sa'diyev; the role of Totiniso), «Janob hech kim» (2009), «Tundan tonggacha» (2010) and its sequel (2012), «Oling quda, bering quda» (2011), «Quduq» (2014), «Hamroh» (2017) and many other works. In 2021 she played the poet Zulfiya in the documentary «O'zbekning Zulfiyasiman» (directed by Navro'za Biynazova) and created the same character in a feature film about the poet's life. In 2022 she played flight attendant Nigora Yusupova in «101-reys», and in 2023 the leading role of Klara Khadjayeva in «Abdulla Oripov». In 2024 she appeared in the short film «Unsin», based on Abdulla Qahhor's story «Dahshat».

She now works at the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre and has appeared in more than 60 productions, among them «Muhabbat sultoni» (Layli), «Soxibqiron Temur» (Kanizak), «Adibning umri» (Zarifa Saidnosirova), «Makr va muhabbat» (Luiza), «Oltin qiz» (Dilbar), «Tun albatta o'tadi» (Maria Rosaria), «O'zbekcha raqs» (Maria Ponamareva), «Keldi-yu ketdi» (Qumri), «Urush odamlari» (Anzirat) and «Birinchi qaldirg'och» (Ma'suma Qoriyeva).

In 2006 she was named Honoured Artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In 2014 she received the national E'tirof prize in the theatre actors' category. In 2020 she was given the «Fidokor of Culture and Art» chest badge, and in 2021 the Order «Do'stlik» and the commemorative badge for the 30th anniversary of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In February 2026, at the TURKSOY International Theatre Awards in Istanbul, she won the Best Theatre Actress award for 2025.