Hamida Omarova

Known for ActingBorn 1957-04-25 (age 69)Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Hamida Omarova (Azerbaijani: Həmidə Ömərova) was born to a family of teachers, Mammad and Nasiba Omarov. Her parents met at university where both of them studied foreign languages, and went on to have four children, three of whom died in their infancy. When Hamida was born, her parents visited the Sufi Hamid shrine in Qazakh and after being sure the newborn would survive, they named her after the sanctuary. Following her parents' divorce in 1960 and her father's permanent departure to his native Gazakh, Hamida Omarova was raised by her mother and grandmother. After graduating from high school she enrolled at Baku State University to study philology. While finishing her first year in 1975, she entered an academic contest along with other 300 people and was among the 15 contestants who were admitted to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. Omarova's first role was in a short film entitled The Dentist in 1977. Since then, she starred in over 30 films and became the most successful Azerbaijani actress of the decade performing at times in up to 4 movie shootings simultaneously. In Russia, she is known mostly for acting in Yuli Gusman's film "Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You" (1981), staged in Gakh, Azerbaijan. Her performance was rewarded with numerous awards including that of a People's Artist of Azerbaijan. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan's movie industry experienced severe decline. This became both a career decay and a psychological ordeal for Omarova. After going through a period of depression, she got married in 1992 and gave birth to a son. At the same time, she hosted the late night show Retro, a weekly review of classic movies from Azerbaijan and abroad. In 2006 Omarova was elected President of the Azerbaijani Union of Cinematographers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hamida Omarova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

She Likes Me

The Poet

Nizami

Whirlpool

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

Painful Roads

Uzeyir's Life

Black & White Nights

The Road Story

Our Great-Grandfather's Grandfather

Golden Precipice

Vah!

Timeless Love

Spinster 2

Spinster

Ana və poçtalyon

Həsrət

Be a Man

Barama

A Train Called Time

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You! 1919

Welcome, My Angel

Seans

Salur Qazanın evi talandığı boy

Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan

Hotel Room

Demons Prison

Şirbalanın məhəbbəti

I Will Burn in the Fire of Purification

The Native Shores

The Rain During the Holiday

And Umai Saw a Dream

The Music Teacher

The Silver Truck

I Want to Understand