Malahat Abbasova

Malahat Abbasova was born in Pirshagi.

She studied at the Drama and Film Acting Faculty of the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts (courses of Mehdi Mammadov, Azerpasha Nematov, Shafiga Mammadova).

At the age of 21, she starred in the film-play “You Are Always With Me”. She worked at the Azerbaijan State Drama Theater until 1991.

She has lived in Turkey since 1991. She is an actor and director of the Istanbul Municipal Theater. Since 2016, she has been the deputy artistic director of the City Theaters affiliated with the Istanbul Municipality.

In Turkey, she has acted in films and TV series:
“Super father” (1993) as Canan
“Flower Taxi” (1995-2003) as Sadness (1996, directed by Cem Akyoldaş)
“Handless Babe” (1997, directed by Naci Çelik Berksoy) as Güzin
“Lie” (1997, directed by Cem Akyoldaş) as Ayşe
“Separate Worlds” (1998, directed by Kaya Ererez, Zeki Demirkubuz) as Zehra
“Broken Lives” (1998, directed by Hüdaverdi Yavuz) as Ayten
“Nimdaşçı Ata” (2000, directed by Naci Çelik Berksoy) as Bedia
“Derman Bey” (2001, directed by Melih Gülgen) in the series as Suzan
in the film "Wounded" (2002, director Nazif Tunç)
in the film "Brindar" (2004, director Nazif Tunç)
in the series "Night Walk" (2004, director Mesude Erarslan) as a lawyer
in the series "From the Heart of Life" (2004) as Rabiya
in the series "Never Forget" (2005, director Nazif Tunç, Haluk Göl)
in the series "Hacı" (2005, director Nazif Tunç) as Zühal
in the series "Köpük" (2005, director Cem Akyoldaş) as Yezdan
in the series "Thousand and One Nights" (2006-2008, director Kudret Sabancı) as Mihriban
in the film "Köşk" (2009, director Cem Akyoldaş) as Selma
in the series "Kız kirtıran" (2009, director Mustafa Şevki Doğam) as Gülgün in the role
in the film “Vida” (2010, directed by Zulu Livaneli)
in the film “For My Daughter” (2013, directed by Hakan Haksun) as Rukiye
in the series “Emanet” (2014) as Perihan Serman
in the film “Kardashlık adası” (2014, directed by Nazif Tunç) as Gülşen
in the series “Seddülbahir 32 hours” (2015, directed by Yasin Uslu)
in the series “Sevda kuşun kanadında” (2016, directed by Ayhan Özem, Yasin Uslu) as Muberra Eren
in the series “Sevdanın dalı” (2017, directed by Emir Khalilzadeh) as Tatyana Filmed.
She was a consultant for the series “Yakşı Cazibe” (2010-2012).
She was awarded the "Special Jury Award" of Burj Colleges in 2007 for her role as an Azerbaijani girl in the TV series "A Thousand and One Nights" and the theater play "Murder Under the Stars".

She is an Honored Artist (2014).