Iqra Aziz

Birthday	November 24, 1997
Age	28 Years (November, 2026)
Birth Place	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Relationship Status	Married to Yasir Hussain (2019)

Biography

Iqra Aziz is a Pakistani television actress born on 24 November 1997 in Karachi. She became widely popular as Jiya in the Hum TV Ramadan comedy Suno Chanda (2018) and its 2019 sequel, opposite Farhan Saeed, and earned critical praise for Ranjha Ranjha Kardi (2018) and Raqeeb Se (2021).

Aziz has won four Hum Awards and three Lux Style Awards. She married actor and writer Yasir Hussain in December 2019, and the couple have two children.

Early Life

Aziz grew up in Karachi and has spoken in interviews about her mother raising the family as a single parent. She started working at around fourteen, first as a commercial model with the talent agency Citrus, and completed college while working before setting her studies aside to focus on acting.

Career

Hum TV producer Momina Duraid cast Aziz in Kissey Apna Kahein (2014). She followed it with leads in Muqaddas and Mol (both 2015), winning the Hum Award for Best Television Sensation, and then appeared in Deewana, Choti Si Zindagi (2016), Gustakh Ishq, Ghairat and Khamoshi.

In 2018 she starred in Qurban with Shehzad Sheikh and Bilal Abbas Khan and played Ajiya "Jiya" Nazakat in Suno Chanda, which became a surprise hit and returned for a second season in 2019. The same year she took the lead in the social drama Ranjha Ranjha Kardi, one of the performances that established her with critics; her Suno Chanda work also brought Lux Style Awards.

She played Ameera in Raqeeb Se (2021) alongside Hadiqa Kiani and starred in Khuda Aur Muhabbat 3 (2021) with Feroze Khan. After a break she returned in Mannat Murad (2023) and Burns Road Kay Romeo Juliet (2024).