Acting
Feb 15, 1967
Baku - Azerbaijan - USSR
Tamila Koulieva
Acting
Biography
Tamilla Fakhraddinovna Kulieva (Russian: Тамилла Фахраддиновна Кулиева, Baku, February 16, 1967) is a Greek-Russian actress of theater, film and television. She studied directing at the Moscow State University of Culture and acting at the Moscow State University of Cinematography (VGIK), where she received a master's degree in Fine Arts. While teaching improvisation techniques at the same University, she was an active member of the theater group "Uzatsovka" in Moscow and participated in four Russian films. Since 1992, she has been teaching, according to the methods of "Michael Chekhov", acting and improvisation in many drama schools, at the National Theater of Greece as well as the State Theater of Northern Greece. She was a member of the jury at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (chaired by Otar Iosseliani) and at the Athens International Film Festival “Premiere Nights” (chaired by Max von Sydow). She has received the UNESCO Gold Medal for Arts, Letters and Sciences. She is an honorary member of the Baku Slavic University (BSU). She has been honored as a benefactor for her continuous contribution by the Hadjikyriake Foundation for Child Protection. She was a presenter of the documentary series “Athens Calls Moscow”, which was her own idea, on ERT, the public broadcaster of Greece.
Feature Films (9)
Summer ends, and with that, every illusion of reality slowly fades away. What happens if you want to hold on to this illusion no matter what?
Sammer
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
Smyrna
In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle of farm-life provides a strong contrast to their lives and they are forced to choose between human desire and spiritual devotion
Metéora
The night club "the River" situated in the small Greek city Livadeia is looking for a music group to perform there for a few nights. Many different musicians come from all over Greece and many funny incidents take place among them.
Here We Are!
Eleni left Karpathos at the age of 17. Twenty years later, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. Taking care of her children and the family's Greek restaurant are her daily activities. But an unexpected event turns everything upside down. Eleni's teenage love, Aris, comes from the island to America to find her. Suddenly, what she once longed for now becomes a source of pain. Eleni is called upon to make a very difficult decision. Will she leave everything she has, her life, her children, her husband, to follow her dream, or will she choose to stay with what now clearly seems like a dull and lonely life?
A Sea Apart
It is based on a true story, where a young soldier and the wife of a revolutionary guy falls in love while in the background we witness political turmoils of Greece at that time.
Vassiliki
A mother with her ten year old son, are looking to find an apartment for rent but those who finds are expensive or hide bizarre people and chaotic situations. But time is short and there is a risk being left on the road.
Tomorrow Is Another Day
A coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn't quit fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family's tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange bricolage coach-a tailor shop on wheels- he reinvents his life and his craft. He changes the brides of Athens and falls in love for the first time in his 50s.
Tailor
Television & Series (13)
Four young children have grown up together in an orphanage in Nicosia. Two boys and two girls. These children were not adopted, they stayed alone, and when they matured and left the Foundation, they decided to give each other what they needed most ... a family. Common point of all, that they have never searched their own. The reason is that they fear the rejection of their parents for the second time. Among them, an unloved love ... When one of the four hurts and needs a transplant, the other three in the face of danger will be forced to look for a compatible donor. Potential candidates will be his parents ... So they exchange their folders and they look for each other's family! They swear not to reveal anything to each other until they learn the truth about their parents. Until they learn why they left them ...
San Oikogeneia
A lawyer and a District Attorney meet and are forced to work together to find the real culprit. However, they have a completely different philosophy of life. For Dimitris, Law and Justice are the same. For Anna, the Law is one thing and Justice is another. Trapped in a labyrinth of secrets, they search to find a way out. Through a labyrinthine path of emotions, they search for the truth. However, none of them will be able to distinguish reality from illusion. Who are the real perpetrators and who are the moral perpetrators?
