Ataya Aliyeva

Ataya Gulam gizi Aliyeva (; 1920 – 1995) was an Azerbaijani theater and film actress, and a Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. She appeared in numerous films made in Azerbaijan.

Biography Ataya Aliyeva was born on May 2, 1920, in Poltoratsk. She received specialized education at the Baku Theater Technical School, where she participated in several roles in a drama club thanks to the initiative of Fatma Gadri. At the Yerevan theater, she created numerous stage characters in both national and foreign productions.

In 1938, she moved to Baku with her family, and two years later, they returned to Yerevan again. In the 1948–1949 theater season, Aliyeva was invited to the Ganja Drama Theater Her roles as Sevil and Dilber, Yagut and Tanya, Sona and Solmaz (at the Yerevan theater), and Almaz, Sara, and Gultekin (at the Ganja theater) provided her with a significant foundation for her acting career.

In 1956, Ataya Aliyeva returned to the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theater. There, she performed in productions of classic and contemporary Azerbaijani playwrights, as well as translated works.

Ataya Aliyeva died on April 6, 1995, in Baku. She was buried in the Yasamal cemetery. Ataya Aliyeva (2nd from the right in the middle row) with the creative team of the Yerevan state Azerbaijan dramatic theater, 1937."

Family Ataya Aliyeva’s father, Aghagulam, was from Maragheh, and her mother, Humay khanim, was from Tabriz. They had six children.

Ataya married actor Hasanoghlu Mirzayev,

Filmography