Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
10
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 01, 1912 ( 51 years old )
Place of Birth
Lankaran, Azerbaijan
Also Known As
Münəvvər Kələntərli
Минавар Калантарли
Минавар (Мина) Калантарли
Munavvar Kalantarli
Munavvar Samad qizi Kalantarli (Azerbaijani: Münəvvər Kələntərli) was an Azerbaijani actress and folk singer. Born to a wealthy landowner family descended from Iranian émigrés, Munavvar "Mina" Kalantarli received her primary education at Maryam Bayramalibeyova's Uns School for Girls in Lankaran. Her aunt-in-law and prominent Azerbaijani folk singer, Yavar Kalantarli, noticed young Mina's talent for singing and encouraged her to pursue career in music. In the early 1930s, Munavvar Kalantarli moved to Baku to work at the Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre, where together with Yavar Kalantarli and Munavvar's brother Hashim, she performed folk songs. Prior to becoming an actress Munavvar Kalantarli had not received professional training in acting. Nevertheless, her artistic personality, natural talent and good sense of humour soon got the attention of theatre directors, and in the mid-1930s she was offered a job as an actress at the Azerbaijan Musical Comedy Theatre. In 1937, she got married and give birth to a daughter. Having had to choose between her career and her personal life, Kalantarli divorced her husband when their daughter was still a toddler. Her career in comedy was a successful one. In 1945, she starred in her first movie "The Cloth Peddler" (dir. Ismayil Afandiyev) as Auntie Jahan. Overall she acted in 9 movies between 1945 and 1962. She quit theatre after being appointed assistant producer at the Vatan cinema in Baku.
Known For
O Olmasın, Bu Olsun
1956-12-30Bəxtiyar
1955-12-11Qızmar Günəş Altında
1957-12-29Görüş
1955-12-25Onun Böyük Ürəyi
1958-12-14Əmək və qızılgül
1962-12-02Arşın mal alan
1945-10-01Kölgələr Sürünür
1958-09-26Yeni il Gecəsində
1958-01-01«Kazbek» Qutusu
1958-01-01