Khulan Chuluuny (; born May 30, 1985) is a

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actress and assistant director who first gained international notice as

Börte Börte Üjin (; Mongolian: ), better known as Börte (), was the first wife of Temüjin, who became Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire. Börte became the head of the first Court of Genghis Khan, and Grand Empress of his Empire. S ...

, the wife of

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, in the 2007

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nominated

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n film ''

''.

Career

Khulan was a student in 2006 hoping to join the country's

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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

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. 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'' ( Kazakh: Лавэ) and the 2012 Kazakh films ''

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'' ( Kazakh: Шал) and ''Mech Pobedy'' (Меч Победы). 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

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Personal life

Khulan met Naryn Igilik, Bodrov's Kazakh assistant, while on the set of ''Mongol''. Later, the couple were wed as part of the film's opening night celebrations in Kazakhstan. She and her husband now reside in Kazakhstan, near

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khulan, Chuluuny 1985 births Mongolian film actresses Living people People from Övörkhangai Province Mongolian expatriates in Kazakhstan 21st-century Mongolian actors 21st-century Mongolian women