Chulpan Khamatova

Chulpan Khamatova
Born Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova
(1975-10-01) 1 October 1975
Kazan, Tatar ASSR,
Soviet Union
Alma mater Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
Occupation Actress, philanthropist, television personality
Years active 1998–present
Children 3
Awards
Website http://en.khamatova.name/

Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova MAR (Russian: Чулпа́н Наи́левна Хама́това, Tatar: Cyrillic Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова, Latin Çulpan Nail qızı Xamatova, born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Volga 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, English, and Portuguese.

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.

Social activity

Chulpan Khamatova is known for her social activities, she draws public attention to the problems of children with cancer. In 2005 Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova organized at the stage of Sovremennik Theatre concert "Give me life," to help children with hematological diseases. In 2006 Chulpan became a co-founder of the charity fund Gift of Life, which helps children suffering from oncological and hematological diseases. By the summer of 2009 the fund has collected and sent for treatment of these diseases more than 500 million rubles. On 7 February 2014 she was one of the eight people who carried the Olympic flag into the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi.

Family

Khamatova was married to an ethnic Russian clown-mime Ivan Volkov from 1995 to 2002. In 2003, she married another ethnic Russian, Aleksei Dubin. She has three daughters: Arina, Asya, Iya-Anastasiya.[1]

Filmography

Awards

Roles in theater

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://newslab.ru/info/dossier/xamatova-chulpan-nailevna

External links

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