Marina Turpishcheva

Marina Turpishcheva is an Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan and an actress of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent. She graduated from the A. Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute in 1983 (the workshop of O. Chernova) and has worked at Ilkhom since 1982. She teaches acting at the theatre's Drama Studio.

On stage she plays Woman B in «Three Tall Women», Marlene Dietrich in «Solo for a Woman with Piano», the Nurse in «Tsvetaeva. Phaedra», Lyudka in «Lyudka» and the Elderly Woman in «Delhi Dance». Among her earlier roles are Medea in «Medea», Gertrude in «Hamlet», Herodias in «Salome», Dzemruda and Rosalind in «Happy Beggars», Mrs Helene Alving in «Ghosts» and Mrs Torrelli in «Tortilla Flat».

As a director she staged a number of stage improvisations, among them «Oscar and the Lady in Pink» and «The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant», and in 2012 the class concert «Our Mahalla». In film she appeared in «Ladybird» (2006), «I Stand on the Edge» (2008) and «On the Sunny Side of the Street» (2010).