An Iraqi cinema, theater, and television actress and academic, born in 1949. She obtained a Ph.D. in interior design from the College of Fine Arts. She then worked as a teaching assistant at the same college for 5 years, then moved on to teach at the College of Education for Women in Baghdad for a period of 35 years before she was retired. She began her artistic career early in the theater while she was still a student in the 1960s in the play Blood Wedding, followed by the play Miss Julie. She continued acting in other plays and also participated in films, including Mr. Director (1990). She mainly worked on TV, and her TV credits include Our House and the Neighbors' Homes (1979) and Troublemaker (1987).