Zeba Bakhtiar


Zeba Bakhtiar is a Pakistani film and television actress and a television director. She made her television debut with a Pakistan Television Corporation drama, Anarkali. She made her Bollywood debut with Henna in 1991.

Personal life

Zeba is the daughter of Yahya Bakhtiar, a lawyer, politician and pre-independence Muslim League activist who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan, and also played a key role in framing Pakistan's current constitution. Her father belonged to Quetta, while her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an English woman born to Hungarian parents. Her father died in 2003, and her mother died in 2011. Her parents met in the UK in the early 1940s and married, with her mother eventually settling in Pakistan in 1949 after graduating from the University College London. Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who are both doctors, and a sister, Saira. She was raised in Quetta, and moved to Karachi later.
Zeba married singer Adnan Sami in 1993 and they divorced in 1997. They have a son named Azaan, who is a composer, producer and screenwriter.

Filmography

Television