Huma Akbar

Huma Akbar is a Pakistani actress. She appeared in PTV's productions like Khaleej, Shaheen, Choti Choti Baatein and received a nomination of Best Actress at 6th PTV Awards for her performance in Karawaan.

She was born in Karachi, Sindh at Pakistan and she completed her education from University of Karachi. Huma's parents got divorced when she was very young and her mother was a principle in a school.

Huma's father Jamal Ali Hashmi also known as Jameel was a leading film actor in Pakistan during 1960s and 1970s. He acted in films Saza (1969), Gharnata (1971) and Yeh Aman (1971). Later he moved to India there he worked in some films in Hindi Cinema.

She is the half-sister of Indian actresses Tabu and Farah both are popular actresses in Bollywood and Hindi Cinema.

She made her debut as an actress in drama Shaheen. Then she worked with Marina Khan as Farhat in drama Nishan-e-Haider based on true events of Rashid Minhas in which she portrayed the role of his younger sister Rukhsana.

In 1985 she worked in drama Choti Choti Baatein with Asif Raza Mir and Begum Khurshid Mirza which written by Haseena Moin. Then she worked in drama Karawaan as Sukhaan which was based on the life of Sindhi folk singer Fozia Soomro after Roohi Bano refused to work in drama. She was nominated for Best Actress at 6th PTV Awards for her role as Sukhaan.

After that she worked in drama Khaleej with Tahira Wasti, Sajid Hasan and Zia Gurchani directed by Sahira Kazmi and Yeh Kahaan KI Dosti Hai with Rahat Kazmi and Zaheen Tahira which was written by Anwar Maqsood.

In 1990 she worked in drama Badaltay Qabil with Uzma Gillani as Ayar Kahirini and she did the role of a college going girl who is living in quarters and Sajid Ali likes her and always follows her on his bicycle.

In 2012 she appeared in drama Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu on Hum TV and she portrayed the role of Yasmeen starring with Adeel Husain, Sarwat Gilani, Sanam Saeed, Junaid Khan and Ahsan Khan which was based on the same name novel it was written by Farhat Ishtiaq and directed by Mehreen Jabbar.

Huma married Karim Bakhtiar son of lawyer and politician Yahya Bakhtiar. She worked with him in drama Khaleej and he is a doctor at USA and brother of actress Zeba Bakhtiar and they have two children later they moved to United States. Huma's aunt Sultana Zafar was also an actress.

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