Ismayil Osmanli
Birth date:
11 April 1902
Death date:
22 June 1978
Ismayil Osmanli was born in Nukha (now Sheki).
He was orphaned at the age of eleven and worked in a Sheki silk factory and tannery. In 1920, he became a member of the drama club of the Workers and Peasants' Club in the region. In 1921, he appeared on the theater stage. In 1922, he moved to Ganja and worked in the amateur theater there for 6 years. Since 1928, he participated in the performances of the Tbilisi Azerbaijan Theater. Since 1929, he came to Baku and was an actor of the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theater until the end of his life.
Honored Artist (1940), People's Artist (1949), People's Artist of the USSR (1974) Ismayil Osmanli died in 1978 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.
