Chulpan Khamatova

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Chulpan Khamatova
Chulpan Khamatova as the Soviet nurse Lara with Alex, with whom she falls in love, in Good Bye Lenin!
Birth name	Chulpan Nailyevna Khamatova
Born	October 1, 1975 (age 31) Kazan, Tatarstan, Soviet Union

Chulpan Nailyevna Khamatova (Russian: Чулпа́н Наи́левна Хама́това, born October 1, 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Tatar origin. Born in Kazan, Tatarstan in Russia (formerly Soviet Union), she originally studied mathematics and economics in Kazan before switching to the study of acting in Kazan, and at the Moscow State University and becoming a successful stage actress. She has starred in a number of German language films, the most successful of which is Good Bye Lenin! (2003), as well as in numerous Russian feature films and TV serials.

She has two daughters and is divorced from her first husband. Her name, Chulpan, means "Morning Star" in Tatar.

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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) (with Daniel Brühl, Maria Simon, Katrin Saß, Michael Gwisdek and Alexander Beyer)
Dressirovshchitsa kurits (2003)
Hurensohn (2004)
72 metra (2004)
Garpastum (2005)
Grecheskiye kanikuly (2005)
Midsummer Madness (2006)
Ellipsis (2006)
Mechenosets (2006)