Zohra Segal is an actress and a prominent theatre personality. She is also a great dancer. She was born in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh in 1912. Zohra Segal comes from a conservative Muslim family. She had a rebellious nature from her childhood and always wanted to do things she was not supposed to be doing. At the age of 18, she went to Germany to study eurhythmies at Mary Wigman`s School of Dance. Returning on completion of the training, she joined Uday Shankar`s dance centre in Almora and soon became one of his leading performers, accompanying the troupe on its tours through Asia, Europe, and America. She married Kameshwar Segal, a co-dancer, in 1942. After some time they moved to Bombay with their own troupe, Zoresh.

Zohra Segal joined Prithvi Theatres as a dance teacher in 1945 but soon proved her worth as a powerful lead actress too in their path-breaking plays Diwar, Pathan, and Gaddar. She stayed with them till 1959. She served as vice-chairman of the Indian People`s Theatre Association and principal of Delhi Natya Academy for four years. Then she left for a long spell in London and Europe, working in theatre at the Old Vic and British Drama League, radio, and films. Meanwhile she won the first Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Urdu theatre, in 1963. On finally coming back to India, she settled in Delhi and made a comeback on stage, acting in Din ke andhere i.e. `Darkness of Day` in 1992. Still active in theatre, she also performs for cinema and television, and joined her sister Uzra Butt on the Pakistani production Ek Thi Nani or `There Was a Granny` in 1998. As an actress Zohra Segal proved herself in both tragic and comic roles.

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