Chulpan Khamatova
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| Born | Chulpan Nailyevna Khamatova October 1, 1975 Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union |
Chulpan Nailyevna Khamatova (Russian: Чулпа́н Наи́левна Хама́това, Tatar Cyrillic: Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова, Latin: Çulpan Nail qızı Xamatova, born October 1, 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Tatar origin. Her name, Chulpan, means "Venus" in Tatar. Her parents are both engineers, and her father is managing director of a firm.
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[edit] Background
Born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union, she originally studied mathematics and economics in Kazan before switching to acting. She later continued her acting studies at Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and became a successful stage actress.
She is fluent in Tatar, Russian, German, and English.
[edit] Career
Khamatova has starred in a number of German language films as well as in numerous Russian feature films and TV serials. She is known internationally for starring in Good Bye Lenin! (2003), as Lara, the girlfriend of the main character and his mother's nurse.
She was on the six-person jury, which was headed by Catherine Deneuve, at the Venice Film Festival in 2006.
[edit] Family
Khamatova was married to Russian clown-mime Ivan Volkov from 1995–2002. In 2003, she married her second husband, Aleksei Vladimirovich Dubinin. She has two daughters, one from each marriage.
[edit] Filmography
- Strana glukhikh (1998)
- Vremya tantsora (1998)
- Luna Papa (1999)
- Tuvalu (1999)
- Rozhdestvenkaya mysterya (2000)
- England! (2000)
- Lvinaya dolya (2001)
- Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man (2001)
- Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
- Dressirovshchitsa kurits (2003)
- Hurensohn (2004)
- 72 metra (2004)
- Garpastum (2005)
- Grecheskiye kanikuly (2005)
- Midsummer Madness (2006)
- Ellipsis (2006)
- Mechenosets (2006)
