
Acting
Dec 17, 1966
Baku, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Mehriban Zaki
Acting
Biography
Mehriban Murvat qizi Zaki (born December 18, 1966, Baku) is an Azerbaijani theater and film actress, People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2018), presidential awardee. She appeared in many feature films produced by "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio. She has also performed as a lyricist and vocalist in films.
Feature Films (19)

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Ali and Nino

January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.
The Family

An old violinist thinks over his past life on the eve of the 80th birthday. His reflections result in looking for once composed but then forgotten melody. A chance meeting with dancer Rena takes him away to his lost love. He realizes that a person who has betrayed himself is doomed to tragic finale.
Melody of Space

A man goes to prison for years for a crime his cousin committed. After his release he moves to his native village and lives a simple life. But when his cousin comes to visit, his old thoughts of revenge return.
There, Where the Rivers Merge

The film is about war in Garabagh and when we look at wounded solider we see our son, brother or father.
The Hope

A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
Black & White Nights

The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the present day - depicting how, amid shifting social and political upheavals, they endure physical and moral persecution. It also explores human betrayal and the ways people adapt their identities to survive changing circumstances.
Hotel Room

The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
Good Bye, Southern City

"At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
Inner City

A young woman with a broken family is looking for happiness. She wants to remarry to get rid of loneliness, so she decides to use the Internet. The film also reflects the impact of the current transition period, economic and political changes on the intellectual families of Baku. But more women and their psychology came to the fore. The psychological crises of a modern woman, family relationships are reflected in the film.
Liars

This historical movie is about the situation of Ganja and Karabakh khanates between Russia and Iran war.
The Fate of the Ruler

The film tells the story of a man, who was in prison when the invaders occupied his native land. When he gets out from prison, he tries to find ways to visit his parents’ graves, which are located on the occupied lands now.
A Man of the Third Day
Television & Series (4)

It tells the story of Atabey Shamsaddin Eldaniz, the founder of the Atabey state, a historical state that ruled Azerbaijan, eastern Anatolia, northern Iraq, Iran, and the Caucasus from 1136 to 1225, and the life of Qara Sungur, the first great atabey of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani Atabegs

This family drama series tells the story of a wealthy family. The plot of this series is based on love and betrayal.
Həyat çiçəyi

A girl named Lala, who witnessed the treacherous murder of her father as a child, decides to become a lawyer and take revenge. Lala falls in love with the man she thinks is her father's killer. Later, it turns out that the killer is not that man.
Qaranlıqlar çiçəyi

For more than twenty years, a secret has been kept between two doctors. One day, two newborn babies are stolen from the hospital due to the carelessness of nurse Sevil. In order to save the lives of her colleague and friend, the head doctor, Khalida, does not tell anyone about this incident. Many things have changed over the years. However, that friendship and secret remain the same. After years, all the events and secrets begin to unfold.
