Nasiba Jahangir gizi Zeynalova ( az, Nəsibə Cahangir qızı Zeynalova; 20 April 1916 – 10 March 2004) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actress. People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1967).
Life and career
Nasiba Zeynalova was born in Baku (then part of the
Russian Empire
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, present-day capital of Azerbaijan), the daughter of merchant and stage actor Jahangir Zeynalov. The family fled to
Iran
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just before the
Azeri massacre of March 1918 committed by Bolshevik military units in Baku. Her father died during their trip back home in September 1918, via the
Caspian Sea
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.
While in secondary school she attended dance courses. In 1932 she joined
Rza Tahmasib
Rza Abbasgulu oglu Tahmasib ( az, Rza Təhmasib; 20 April 1894, Nakhchivan City – 14 February 1980, Baku) was an Azerbaijani film director and actor. He also worked as a professor of theatre, and translator of play scripts from Russian into Az ...
's drama club. In 1937 she joined a vagrant theatre troupe and toured several Azerbaijani towns. In 1938 she started working at the
Azerbaijan State Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy
Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy ( az, Azərbaycan Dövlət Musiqili Komediya Teatrı) is one of the leading musical theatres of Azerbaijan.
History
The premiere of ''Husband and wife'', a musical comedy written by Uzeyir Hajibeyov in 1 ...
. She earned a degree at the Baku School of Theatre.
[Nasiba Zeynalova biography]
Nasiba-Zeynalova.az; accessed 22 March 2015.
In the following years Nasiba Zeynalova acted in 22 films and around 70 plays, as well as in numerous television sketches. She is most remembered for the roles of Fatmanisa in ''Ogey ana'' (''Stepmother'', 1958), Sughra in ''Bizim Jabish muallim'' (''Our Teacher Jabish'', 1969), Jannat in ''Gayinana'' (''Mother-in-law'', 1978) and Auntie Asli in ''Beyin ogurlanmasi'' (''The Kidnapping of the Groom'', 1985). In 1967, she was named People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR.
kino-teatr.ru; accessed 22 March 2015.
Filmography
*'' Ögey ana'' (1958)
*''Mollanın sərgüzəşti'' (1960)
*''Böyük dayaq'' (1962)
*''Ulduz'' (1964)
*''Qanun naminə'' (1968)
*''Bizim Cəbiş müəllim'' (1969)
*''Dəli Kür'' (1969)
*''O qızı tapın'' (1970)
*''Bizim küçənin oğlanları'' (1973)
*''1001-ci qastrol'' (1974)
*''Любовь с первого взгляда'' (1975)
*''Xoşbəxtlik qayğıları'' (1976)
*'' Qayınana'' (1978)
*''Mən mahnı bəsləyirəm'' (1978)
*''За закрытой дверью'' (1981)
*''Не бойся, я с тобой'' (1981)
*''Bəyin oğurlanması'' (1985)
*''Qəm pəncərəsi'' (1986)
*''Xüsusi vəziyyət (1986)
*''Gecə qatarında qətl'' (1990)
*''Güllələnmə təxirə salınır'' (1993)
*''Yuxu'' (1995)
*''Məhəllə'' (2003)
References
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1916 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Azerbaijani actresses
21st-century Azerbaijani actresses
Actors from Baku
Honored Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR
People's Artists of Azerbaijan
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Shohrat Order
Azerbaijani film actresses
Azerbaijani stage actresses
Soviet Azerbaijani people
Soviet film actresses
Soviet stage actresses
Burials at Alley of Honor