# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alim-kouliev
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:36:04.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alim-kouliev"
name: "Alim Kouliev"
slug: "alim-kouliev"
description: "Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev is a Soviet-born American actor, theatre director, and screenwriter of Balkar origin. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was a Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev and his mother was his Ingush wife Maka. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev was a Russian film director and a screenwriter. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev is a Russian painter, living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. At the age of seven, Kouliev was influenced by Vladimir Visotsky, an acclaimed Russian actor, poet, and singer, and one of his father's younger colleagues in the poetry field. Alim later decided to become an actor."
tagline: "Russian actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alim_Kouliev.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             1.255605381165919
  historical:           5.284738666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2530131/"
    handle:    "nm2530131"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%DA%A4"
    title: "اليم كوليڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alim_Kouliev"
    title: "Alim Kouliev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alim_Kouliev"
    title: "Alim Kouliev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Кулиев, Алим Кайсынович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "علیم کولیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4246159"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2737334"
    title: "Alim Kouliev"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations