Chulpan Khamatova

Chulpan Khamatova
Born	Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova October 1, 1975 (1975-10-01) Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union

Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova MAR (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 "morning star" (i.e. Venus) in Tatar.

Background

Born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents are both engineers, and her father is managing director of a firm. 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 Russian, German, and English. She does not speak Tatar.

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.

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 three daughters.

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)
• Children of the Arbat (serial) (2004)
• Garpastum (2005)
• Grecheskiye kanikuly (2005)
• Midsummer Madness (2006)
• Ellipsis (2006)
• Mechenosets (2006)

See also

• Cinema of Russia and Soviet Union
• Cinema of Germany
• List of Tatars

External links

• Chulpan Khamatova at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website (French and Russian)
• Fan site (Japanese)