Alim Kouliev

Alim Kouliev
Master and Margarita. Rehearsal
Born	(1959-06-24) June 24, 1959 (age 62) Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, USSR
Nationality	Balkar
Occupation	Stage actor, film actor, theater director
Relatives	Kaisyn Kuliev (father) Maka Kulieva (mother) Eldar Kuliev (brother) Azamat Kuliev (brother)

Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev (born June 24, 1959) is a Russian-American actor, theatre director and screenwriter of Balkar origin. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev and his mother was his Ingush wife Maka. His older brother Eldar Kuliev was a Russian film director and a screenwriter. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev is a Russian painter, living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. At the age of seven, Kouliev was influenced by Vladimir Visotsky, an acclaimed Russian actor, poet and singer, and one of his father's younger colleagues in the poetry field. Alim later decided to become an actor.^[1]

Biography[]

He studied acting at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. After serving in the Soviet Army, he continued his education at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he graduated from the acting class of Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed master of theater and cinema.^[2] His classmate was Natalya Vavilova. Kouliev also studied stage directing at GITIS in 1981.

Ever since he was a student, Kouliev appeared on the professional stage. His first significant role on stage was Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Aleksandr Demidov , where he also played Atavio in The Moods of Marianne by Alfred de Musset and Meleander in Maurice Maeterlinck's .^[3] He broke into films starring as Joseph Codrero in Copper Angel with Leonid Kuravlyov, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Leonid Yarmolnik. He has twelve years of acting experience working in leading Moscow theaters and has had several roles in the famous Russian feature films. He has also performed extensively as an actor for radio and TV. Kouliev created many great characters in classic and contemporary productions, under the best Russian theatrical directors.

In 1991 his life changed dramatically. He moved to the United States.

After the long break in his career as an actor, Kouliev made his comeback. In Los Angeles, he became a key member of the theatrical troupe Dreamhouse Ensemble, where he played Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service and Uncle Tobit in Jimmy Christ.^[4] At the present time the producer-actor-director works in Hollywood with "The Master Project", his own stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita.^[5] The Staging of Master and Margarita has been Kouliev's long-cherished dream as a director. He vividly expresses himself in the Master Project as a mature and sophisticated painter of life.

Filmography[]

Woland

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References[]

External links[]

• Alim Kouliev at IMDb
• Alim Kouliev. The Master and Margarita Project
• Alim Kouliev. Interview.
• YouTube. Oleander. Episode 2
• Alim Kouliev. United States Copyrights Office. Kouliev Alim. Mansur. PAu003862115 / 2017-05-12
• Alim Kouliev. Interview. "Алим Кулиев об отце, Америке и противоборстве добра и зла" |
• К��ноактеры из России сыграют в голливудском театре
• Backstage. ROOM SERVICE