Rikhsi Ibragimova

Rikhsi Ibragimova was born in Tashkent in 1937. In 1959 she graduated from the acting faculty of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre Institute. She has appeared on the stage of the Hamza Uzbek Drama Theatre (now the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre) since 1956, while still a student.

She has played more than 50 roles in the theatre, among them Gulasal in Yulchi Yulduz (lead), Guli in Alisher Navoi, Jamila in The Rich Man and the Servant, Ophelia in Hamlet, Dilorom in The Golden Wall and Oysara Ahadova in Alla. She also took leading parts in television plays and radio dramas.

In film she worked from 1969 to 2020, in Integral (1970), Grove of Memory (1982), Shaytanat (1998), Anora (2006), The Father (2010) and other films. According to Russian Wikipedia she also voiced about 500 films.

She was made Honoured Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1967 and People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1979, and holds the orders Mehnat Shuhrati (1997), El-yurt Hurmati (2011) and Fidokorona Xizmatlari Uchun (2020).