Zaynab Sadriyeva (25 November 1914, Astrakhan – 31 October 1991, Tashkent) was a Soviet Uzbek theater and film actress.
[1][2][3] She was honored with the title People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1952 and awarded the State Hamza Prize in 1979.
In 1920, her father, Sadridin, moved the family to the town of Kaunchi near Tashkent, where he started working at a sugar factory (now the city of Yangiyul).
She created vivid, significant, and sharply dramatic characters, portraying strong-willed women facing challenging destinies: Vassa Zheleznova, Kruchinina, Lyubov Yarovaya, Glafira in "The Last Sacrifice," Feklusha in "The Storm," among others.
Zaynab Sadriyeva's deep temperament and emotional power gave a romantic-tragic resonance to her characters.