Dolly Anwar (; 1 July 1948 – 3 July 1991) was a Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress and writer and editor of ''Saatdin'' magazine. She was awarded

Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress ( bn, জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার) is the highest award for film actresses in Bangladesh. List of winners ;Key Records and statistics Multiple w ...

for her role in the film ''

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'' (1979).

Early life

Anwar was the daughter of

Nilima Ibrahim Neelima Ibrahim (11 October 1921 – 18 June 2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her scholarship on Bengali literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the ...

, a political and feminist activist, and Muhammad Ibrahim, a physician. She was an undergraduate student in literature at Jagannath College.

Career

Anwar began her career on stage at the age of 13. At 16, she acted in ''Aktala Dotala'' by Munier Choudhury and ''Roj Roj'' the first play and the first drama serial respectively on

Bangladesh Television Bangladesh Television ( bn, বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন), commonly known by its acronym BTV ( bn, বিটিভি), is the state-owned television network of Bangladesh. The network was originally established as the East ...

. She later acted in

Zahir Raihan Mohammad Zahirullah (19 August 1935 – disappeared 30 January 1972), known as Zahir Raihan, was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is most notable for his documentary ''Stop Genocide'' (1971), made during the Bangladesh Liberatio ...

's Borof Gola Nodi and Arek Phalgun plays. Her film debut was the multiple national film award-winning '' Surja Dighal Bari'' in 1979. Her second and last acted film was ''Dahan'' (1986), directed by

Sheikh Niamat Ali Sheikh Niamat Ali (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003) was a Bangladeshi film director. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985 and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - '' Surja Dighal Bari'', ''Dahan' ...

. Anwar left acting and started serving as the director of an advertisement agency and the editor of a weekly, ''Saatdin''.

Personal life and death

Anwar first married Raju in 1966, a student leader. She then married Anwar Hossain, a photographer, and cinematographer. Anwar committed suicide on 3 July 1991 and died at the

Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (abbreviated DMCH) is a public medical college and hospital located in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. It houses medical school as well as a tertiary care hospital on one campus. The country's first ev ...

later that night.

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* 1948 births Bangladeshi film actresses Bangladeshi television actresses 20th-century Bangladeshi actresses Best Actress National Film Awards (Bangladesh) winners Burials at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard Place of birth missing Best Actress Bachsas Award winners 1991 suicides Suicides in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-actor-stub