Khulan was a student in 2006 hoping to join the countrys military and enroll in a military school1 when she was discovered by Guka Omarova the casting agent for Mongol while standing in a visa line at the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar Bodrov and Omarova had wanted to cast a Mongol woman as Genghis Khans wife but with two weeks to go before filming they were uncertain about their choices After meeting with her Bodrov decided to take a risk on the nonprofessional actress and subsequently cast her in the role of Börte2 Khulan served as assistant director on the 2009 Kazakh gangster film Lave Kazakh Лавэ3 and the 2012 Kazakh films The Old Man Kazakh Шал and Mech Pobedy Меч Победы She starred as Queen of the Oirats in the 2017 Kazakh television production The Kazakh Khanate 4 She also portrayed an Scythian Warrior in a documentary for the Smithsonian Institution
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