Alim Kouliev

Alim Kouliev (born June 24, 1959) is a Russian-American actor and director. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. 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 Evgeniy Matveyev, an acclaimed master of theater and cinema.

Ever since he was a student, Kouliev appeared on professional stage. He has twelve years of acting experience working in several leading Moscow theaters and has had several roles in 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 theater productions, under the best Russian theatrical and cinema directors.

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

After the long break in his career as an actor Kouliev has made his comeback. In Los Angeles, he has become a key member of the theatrical troupe Dreamhouse Ensemble, where he played Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service and Uncle Tovit in Jimmy Christ. 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. 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.

External links

• Alim Kouliev at IMDb
• The Master and Margarita Project

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