Alim Kouliev

Alim Kouliev is a Russian-American actor and director of Balkar origin. Kouliev was born in Nalchik - a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev is a Russian film director and a screenwriter, living in Moscow. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev is the 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, one of his father's younger colleagues in a poetry field. Alim decided to become an actor.Has performed extensively as an actor for film, radio and TV. He has twelve years of acting experience working in several leading Moscow theaters Has created many great characters in classic and contemporarytheater productions, under the best Russian theatrical directors. In 1991 his life changed dramatically. He moved to the United States. At the present time producer-actor-director works in Hollywood with "The Master Project", his own stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita".