Zamira Hidoyatova

Zamira Hidoyatova was born in 1909 in Tashkent. Sources give different birth dates, so only the year is stated. In 1924–1927 she studied at the Uzbek theatre studio in Moscow.

From 1927 she worked in travelling troupes, and from 1932 she was an actress of the Central Model Uzbek State Troupe (now the Hamza Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre) in Tashkent. Her characters were noted for their vividness, strong rendering of feeling and truthfulness.

On stage she played Kabanikha in Ostrovsky's The Storm, Melania in Gorky's Yegor Bulychov and Others, Hoji ona (Khodzhiona) in Hamza's The Bai and the Labourer and Ortiqova (Artykova) in Zinnat Fatkhullin's The Mask Is Off, and took part in the play Hamza by Kamil Yashen and Abdulla Umariy.

In 1940–1976 she appeared in seven films: Asal, Boy ila xizmatchi (The Bai and the Labourer), Novoselye, Plamennye gody, Nezhnost, O'n uch terak ko'chasi (Street of Thirteen Poplars) and Chetyre vremeni goda. She also worked in film dubbing and in radio productions.

She became People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1944, a laureate of the Hamza State Prize of the Uzbek SSR in 1979, and was awarded the Shuhrat Medal in 1994. She died in Tashkent on 28 February 1998.