Nida Mumtaz

Nida was born on 10 September 1960 in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her studies from University of Karachi.^[3]

Mumtaz started her career in the 1980s from PTV.^[4] She has played roles in PTV classics, such as Din, Khwahish, Pyas and Dooriyan.^[5] She has also acted in several Urdu and Punjabi films. However, due to her lack of dance expertise, she had to give up acting in films.^[4]

After a break of almost 15–20 years following her marriage, Mumtaz returned to television and has now frequently appeared in the roles of a mother,^[6] including in the dramas Alif, Deewangi, Raqs-e-Bismil and Fraud.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Nida's aunt Shammi was an actress and her uncle, Pervaiz Nasir, was a film producer. Her mother, Salma Mumtaz, who was an actress who died in 2012. Nida took a break from acting but has now returned.^[11] Nida is the aunt of actress and model Sadaf Kanwal.^[12][13]