Hokuma Gurbanova

Hokuma Abbasali gizi Gurbanova (Hökümə Abbasəli qızı Qurbanova; June 11, 1913, Baku, Russian Empire – November 2, 1988, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1965).

Biography
Hokuma Gurbanova was born in Baku, Russian Empire. In 1931, she graduated from a pedagogical college in Baku. From 1931 to 1932, she studied piano at the Baku Academy of Music.

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.

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 Almas, chosen for the role by screenwriter Jafar Jabbarly himself. From 1938, she performed in a troupe of Azerbaijan State Academic National 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.

She died on November 2, 1988, in Baku and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Awards and titles

 * People's Artist of the USSR (1965)
 * Mirza Fatali Akhundov State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (1965)
 * Order of Lenin (1959)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1973)
 * Order of the Badge of Honour (1949)

Theatrical works

 * “Vagif” by Samad Vurgun (first performance) – Tamara
 * “Farhad and Shirin” by Samad Vurgun – Shirin
 * “Javanshir” by Mehdi Huseyn – Reyhan
 * “The bride of fire” by Jafar Jabbarly – Solmaz
 * “Bumpkin” by Mirza Ibrahimov – Banovsha
 * “Antony and Cleopatra” by Shakespeare – Cleopatra

Filmography

 * 1972 – “Habib – sovereign of snakes”
 * 1967 – “Man drops anchor” – Shamana
 * 1965 – “Woolen scarf”
 * 1962 – “I will dance” – Bikatu
 * 1961 – “The life teaches”
 * 1959 – “Can he be forgiven?”
 * 1943 – “One family” – Leyla
 * 1936 – “Almas” – Yakhshi