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Khulan Chuluun
05/30/1985 (39 years old) | Kharkhorin, Mongolia | Actor | Female
Khulan was a student in 2006 hoping to join the country's military and enroll in a military school1 when she was discovered by Guka Omarova, the casting agent for Mongol, while standing in a visa line at the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar. Bodrov and Omarova had wanted to cast a Mongol woman as Genghis Khan's wife but with two weeks to go before filming they were uncertain about their choices. After meeting with her, Bodrov decided to take a risk on the non-professional actress and subsequently cast her in the role of Börte.2Khulan served as assistant director on the 2009 Kazakh gangster film Lave (Kazakh: ????)3 and the 2012 Kazakh films The Old Man (Kazakh: ???) and Mech Pobedy (??? ??????). She starred as Queen of the Oirats in the 2017 Kazakh television production The Kazakh Khanate. 4She also portrayed an Scythian Warrior in a documentary for the Smithsonian Institution.