Birth Name: Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov
Place of Birth: Atyrau, Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan)
Date of Birth: June 25, 1961
Ethnicity:
*Kazakh (father)
*possibly Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter.
His father, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, is a manager at Guryev Energy company, and is of Kazakh descent. His mother, Mira (Bogoslavskaya) Bekmambetova, was a journalist. She is said to have been of Jewish descent.
Timur is married to costume designer Varvara Viktorovna Avdyushko.