Ubaydulla Omon

Ubaydulla Omon (born Baqoyev) is an Uzbek stage and film actor and theatre director, a People's Artist of Uzbekistan. His career is closely tied to Bukhara, where he worked for many years as a director and where he is still a director at the Bukhara Regional Musical Drama Theatre.

He first appeared on stage in 1962, in crowd scenes at the Sadriddin Ayni regional theatre in Bukhara. In 1971 he graduated from the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute, and he later studied at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

From 1969 to 1972 he was an actor and director at the Yosh Gvardiya theatre in Tashkent (now the Abror Hidoyatov Uzbek State Drama Theatre), and in 1980–1981 its chief director. He was chief director of the Bukhara theatre in 1972–1980 and again in 1981–1994.

In film he is best known for the lead role of Samig in «Bahor yomg'irlari» (Blind Rain). Since the early 2000s he has appeared in many Uzbek films and television series, including «Sarvinoz», «Marjona», «Fatima va Zuhra», «Telba», «Challari», «Omad», «Qalb ko'zi», «Kulba» and «Sevgi sotilmas», often playing fathers. He also took part in foreign productions: the American film «The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam» (2005), the Russian-Uzbek series «Rodina zhdyot» and the Soviet-Syrian Scheherazade films.

In 1991 he was named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR. He holds the Order «El-yurt hurmati».