Muxtar Maniyev

Muxtar Maniyev

Actor · died at 81

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Age at death81
Birth dateApril 4, 1935
BirthplaceBaku
DiedDecember 22, 2016
Place of deathBaku
ProfessionActor, Film actor
Zodiac signAries

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Muxtar Maniyev — Biography

Muxtar Maniyev was an actor who took part in more than 150 films in Azerbaijani cinema, most often playing small and supporting characters. Over a working life that stretched from the Soviet era into independent Azerbaijan, he was named Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1982 and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan in 2000.

Born in Baku, he turned to the stage after an engineering education: having graduated from the Petrochemical Institute, he applied to the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts and began a second course of study. He worked in a theatre studio attached to the Azərbaycanfilm studio. His filmography is led by the part of Miransah in the 1973 film Nəsimi; he also appeared in Babək (1979) and Lətifə (1989). His other productions include Yaramaz (1988) and Black Volga (1994).

Maniyev died on 22 December 2016 in Baku, the city where he was born.

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