Timur Bekmambetov

Bekmambetov at the World Premiere of “Wanted”. Mann Village Westwood, Westwood, CA. 06-19-08, s_bukley/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov

Place of Birth: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR (now Kazakhstan)

Date of Birth: June 25, 1961

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

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for his film Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, among others.

His father, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, was a manager at the Guryev Energy company, and is of Kazakh descent. His mother, Mira (Bogoslavskaya) Bekmambetova, was a journalist, the deputy editor at the Prikaspiyskaya Kommuna. She is said to have been Jewish.

Timur is married to costume designer Varvara Viktorovna Avdyushko.