Photo: Siim Vahur / Vaba LavaChulpan Khamatova
Kazan; based in Riga since 2022
Chulpan Khamatova was born in Kazan and trained at the Kazan Theatre School, then at GITIS in Moscow under Alexei Borodin.
- Sovremennik Theatre, 1998–2022
- Co-founder, Podari Zhizn charity
- Spēlmaņu nakts award, 2022
- A leading role in Latvian
- Venice Orizzonti film, 2024
“I am very grateful to Latvia that I can live here and work in my profession.”
Upcoming events
From 1998 to 2022 she was a leading actress of the Sovremennik Theatre. At the Theatre of Nations she worked with Alvis Hermanis, in Shukshin's Stories and in Gorbachev opposite Yevgeny Mironov. In 2006 she co-founded the children's cancer charity Podari Zhizn (Gift of Life) with Dina Korzun.
In March 2022 she spoke out against the war, moved to Latvia and joined the New Riga Theatre. Her solo show Post Scriptum won Latvia's national theatre award, Spēlmaņu nakts, for actress of the year, and she played her next Hermanis role in Latvian. In Mikhail Durnenkov's Healing she is Sonia, a journalist with an unclear past.
The production plays the Edmonds Center for the Arts on May 18, 2027.
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