Khulan Chuluun

Khulan also modeled for an advert for the Gobi Cashmere collection.
Designer: Ariunaa Suri

Khulan Chuluun (Mongolian: Чулууны Хулан) is a Mongol actress and photomodel who first gained international notice as Börte, the wife of Genghis Khan, in the 2007 Oscar nominated film "MONGOL".

Born: May 30, 1985
Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai, Mongolia

Khulan had wanted to be a military officer since childhood, but studied journalism until she was discovered in 2005 by Guka Omarova, the casting director of the film Mongol, while queuing for a visa at the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar. Bodrov and Omarova wanted to cast a Mongolian woman to play Genghis Khan's wife. Bodrov held auditions and approved her for the role of Borte.

She starred as Queen of the Oirats in the 2017 Kazakh television production The Kazakh Khanate.

She also portrayed a Saka warrior in a docudrama Warrior Women for the Smithsonian Institution.

Khulan served as assistant director on the 2009 Kazakh gangster film Lave (Kazakh: Лавэ) and the 2012 Kazakh films The Old Man (Kazakh: Шал) and Mech Pobedy (Меч Победы).

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, Almaty.
They have their own production company COLIBRI FILMS and a car sales brand ARHAR MOTORS.