Haji Murad Haji Ahmad oghlu Yagizarov (18 July 1939, Baku) is an Azerbaijani theatre and film actor, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982), laureate of the Azerbaijan SSR State Prize, recipient of the Humay Award, an actor of the Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theatre, and a descendant of Mahmud Agha, the Khan of Shamakhi. Haji Murad Haji Ahmad oghlu Yagizarov was born on 18 July 1939 in Baku. While still at school he took part in a drama club. The prominent actor Alasgar Alakbarov, who watched his performance, advised him to enter the Theatre Institute. He studied in the acting faculty of the M.A. Aliyev Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts, in the class of Maharram Hashimov (1958–1962). Since 1962 he has worked at the Samad Vurgun Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theatre.
