Chuluuny Khulan
Khulan Chuluuny is a Mongol actress and assistant director who first gained international notice as Börte, the wife of Genghis Khan, in the 2007 Oscar nominated Russian film Mongol.
Career
Khulan was a student in 2006 hoping to join the country's military and enroll in a military school 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.Khulan served as assistant director on the 2009 Kazakh gangster film Lave and the 2012 Kazakh films The Old Man and Mech Pobedy. She starred as Queen of the Oirats in the 2017 Kazakh television production The Kazakh Khanate.
She also portrayed a Scythian warrior in a documentary for the Smithsonian Institution.