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Birthday: Jun 11, 1913
Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijan

Hokuma Gurbanova

Hokuma Abbas gizi Gurbanova (Azerbaijani: Hökümə Abbas qızı Qurbanova) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet theatre and film actress and People's Artist of the USSR (since 1965). Hokuma Gurbanova was born on May 29, 1913 in Baku. In 1931, Hokuma Gurbanova graduated from a pedagogical college of Baku. In 1931-1932, she studied piano at the Baku Academy of Music. Hokuma Gurbanova's career as an actress began in 1933, at the Azerbaijanfilm studio, when she played the role of Yakhshi in one of the earliest Soviet Azerbaijani feature films Almaz, chosen for the role by screenwriter Jafar Jabbarly himself. From 1938, she performed in a troupe of Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre in various drama genres. Hokuma Gurbanova was a member of the Union of Cinematographers' of the Azerbaijan SSR and member of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR of the 7th and 8th convocations. Hokuma Gurbanova was briefly married to actor Alasgar Alakbarov and gave birth to a daughter, Naila. Gurbanova had another daughter, Vafa, also an actress, from her second marriage to stage decorator Nusrat Fatullayev. She died on November 2, 1988 in Baku and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
The Last Night of Childhood Davud's Wife 1968
In the Name of the Law Yavar 1968
The Mother in Law 1978
Can One Forgive Him? Kamala Khanum 1959
The Labour and Rose Bikatu 1962
Man Casts an Anchor Shamama 1967
Firangiz Musa's Wife 1975
A Family Leyla 1943
Almas Yakhshi 1936
The Life Teaches Doctor 1961
Series Cast Year
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