Nigora Karimboyeva

Nigora Karimbaeva (Karimboyeva) was born on 11 February 1979 in Tashkent. She is a stage and film actress and television host. At 16 she entered the film acting department of the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute and graduated in 1999.

She took to the stage while still a student, playing Mohichehra in Mark Weil's production of “The White, White Black Stork” at the Ilkhom Theatre. At Ilkhom she also played Smeraldina in Carlo Gozzi's “The Happy Beggars” and Leonardo's wife in Federico García Lorca's “Blood Wedding”; at the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre she played Hermia in Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and Cordelia in “King Lear”. She has appeared in about ten stage productions and is still listed as an Ilkhom actress.

Her first screen role was in her classmate Yolqin To'ychiyev's 1999 diploma film “Fevral”. Wide recognition came with the television series “Sardor” (2000, as Zamira) and its sequel “Sardor 2” (2005). She later appeared in “Chashma”, “Mehribonim”, “Dada”, “Qo'rg'oshin”, “Tog'a”, “Berlin — Oqqo'rg'on”, “Ilhaq”, “Kasallik tarixi” and many other films and series; according to sources she has played more than ten leading film roles. She worked most often with Yolqin To'ychiyev, Zulfiqor Musoqov and Yusuf Roziqov, and is also remembered for her negative characters.

On television she was an announcer on the Sport channel in 2004–2014 and then hosted the talk show “Oydin hayot” on the Oʻzbekiston channel for about six years.

Karimbaeva teaches at the State Institute of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan as a senior lecturer in the Stage Speech department. In 2018 she was awarded the Order of Friendship (“Do'stlik”) by a decree of the President of Uzbekistan.

According to the theatre's website, she currently plays Mahzum's Mother in White White Black Stork by A. Qodiriy at Ilkhom.