Timur Bekmambetov

Birth Name: Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov

Place of Birth: Atyrau, Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan)

Date of Birth: June 25, 1961

Ethnicity:
* Kazakh (father)
* Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh director, producer and screenwriter. His father, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, is a manager at Guryev Energy company, of Kazakh descent. His mother, Mira (Bogoslavskaya) Bekmambetova, was a journalist, of Jewish descent. He is married to costume designer Varvara Viktorovna Avdyushko.