Marziyya Yusuf gizi Davudova[a] (8 December 1901 – 6 January 1962) was a Soviet Azerbaijani, Astrakhan Tatar actress who starred in theatre and silent film.

[citation needed] After the play and a short interview, Arablinski invited Davudova to pursue an acting career in Baku.

[2] Many of her early roles portrayed the government-propagated heroic and independent image of the new-era Soviet woman, as seen in Sevil by Jafar Jabbarly, Hayat by Mirza Ibrahimov, Lyubov Yarovaya by Konstantin Trenyov, etc.

[4] Marziyya Davudova was the partner of actor and director Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh,[9] who was executed by a Soviet Union firing squad for his political activities and connections.

She was the mother of actress Firangiz Sharifova, and great-grandmother of Eurovision Song Contest 2011 winner Eldar Gasimov.