Oydin Norboyeva

Oydin Norboyeva was born in 1944 in Tashkent

Norboyeva was born on 5 March 1944 in Tashkent, in the Uzbek SSR. Her father, Abdulkhak Narbaev, was a theater actor. She studied acting at the Ostrovsky theater institute in Tashkent and graduated in 1964.

In 1963, while still a student, she joined the Hamza national drama theater, where she worked until 1990. Her stage roles there included Cordelia in King Lear and Desdemona in Othello. From 1986 she also worked with Mark Weil's Ilkhom Theater.

Her film debut was the role of Suraya, which earned her a festival diploma for a debut. She played Nadia, a Soviet spy, in Don't Shoot at the 26th, and won the Lenin Komsomol Prize of Uzbekistan for the role in 1967. In the early 1970s she played Tahmina in two Tajik films based on the Shahnameh.

She was named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1979 and received the State Prize of Uzbekistan in 1989. In 1990 she moved to the Russian drama theater in Tashkent. She was married to director Khabibulla Fayziev, actor Bimbolat Vataev and microbiologist Azim Turdiev, and her son Dzhanik Fayziev works in film.

In 1999 she and her husband immigrated to Israel, and she has lived in Tel Aviv. She acted in Israeli theater and appeared in the series The Gordin Cell in 2012 and the film Sukariot in 2013.