Azmeri Haque Badhon

actress · 1983 · Bangladeshi

Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress 2021 and the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Actress, both for Rehana Maryam Noor — the first Bangladeshi film selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes

13 films catalogued

Azmeri Haque Badhon (b. 1983) qualified as a dentist and worked in Bangladeshi television for over a decade before taking the title role in Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s Rehana Maryam Noor (2021), the first Bangladeshi film officially selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Her performance as a medical-college teacher pursuing an assault complaint won her Bangladesh’s National Film Award for Best Actress and the Asia Pacific Screen Award.