Khairulla Sagdiev

Khairulla Sagdiev was born on 6 December 1940 in Tashkent. He studied in the acting faculty of the A. N. Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute; his teacher was Nazira Aliyeva.

From 1963 to 1986 he worked at the Hamza Theatre and then at the Youth Theatre, playing among others Klimka in «How the Steel Was Tempered» and Bulat in «Who Is to Blame?». Since 1986 he has been an actor of the Abdulla Qahhor Republican Satire Theatre, in lyrical-dramatic and comic roles including Nasreddin, Yusuf and Ucharidin.

He has appeared in films since 1963: Mamat in «Shiddat» (1971), the adult Khashim in «Kak Khashim byl bolshim» (1976) and the magic gardener in «Akmal, the Dragon and the Princess» (1981) and «The New Adventures of Akmal» (1984). He took part in dubbing about two hundred Soviet and foreign films into Uzbek. Since 2014 he has been creative director of the children's film magazine «Zumrasha» and works with the studio «5-studiya».

He was named Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1980 and People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1990, and received the Order «Mehnat shuhrati» in 2005.