Zhan Baizhanbayev

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 05, 1961 (63 years old)

Zhan Baizhanbayev

Known For

Gambling addict
2h 8m
Movie 2025

Gambling addict

Zhuldyz, gambling addict, is forced to choose between her addiction and her son. A young psychologist with an unconventional approach helps guide her toward the right decision. This inner journey becomes a painful but necessary step on her path to healing.

Tamyr
1h 18m
Movie 2025

Tamyr

Arman, Arsen, and Askhat have been competing with each other since childhood—over everything from toys to their parents' attention. Over time, nothing has changed. Every year, when they return to their hometown to celebrate their father Duman’s birthday, they resume their rivalry, boasting about their achievements and trying to one-up each other. Askhat sincerely hopes that this time will be different, and even promises his wife Saule that he won’t react to his brothers’ jabs. However, his hopes are dashed when Arman and Arsen drag him into yet another battle for the title of “Best Son.”

Bisharashki in Thailand
Movie 2024

Bisharashki in Thailand

The Baitemir family enjoys a rich life, which is marred by only one fact: Adilet and his wife Leyla cannot have a child. Moldir learns that there is a healer in Thailand who will definitely help them. The family goes to Thailand, where they again encounter troubles.

The Blood Moon
1h 29m
Movie 2024

The Blood Moon

A modern Kazakh version of Agatha Christie's plot: four married couples, two from Kazakhstan and two from Russia, win a vacation in a chalet in the Almaty mountains. But when they get together in a chalet, they are cut off from the outside world by an avalanche, and then a ruthless elimination game begins...

Adam and Alma
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Adam and Alma

A businessman mired in debt goes to an apple orchard inherited from his father to sell it and settle financial problems. But it turns out that the garden is not empty: it is inhabited by people who are fighting for the preservation of the Almaty airport, and the ghosts of his own past.

Teach Me How to Live
1h 30m
Movie 2023

Teach Me How to Live

A successful businessman by chance becomes a real mentor for a young waiter who accidentally saves his life.

The Kazakh Business in Turkey
1h 20m
Movie 2021

The Kazakh Business in Turkey

The successful hotelier Zhomart Kanatovich goes to the international level. Together with Alain, Roche, Bagdaulet and newcomer Marlene, they fly to Turkey to buy a hotel at auction. But buying a hotel is not an easy task and all the heroes are waiting for new adventures, tougher than those that were in America, Africa and Korea.

The Kazakh Business in Turkey
1h 20m
Movie 2021

The Kazakh Business in Turkey

The successful hotelier Zhomart Kanatovich goes to the international level. Together with Alain, Roche, Bagdaulet and newcomer Marlene, they fly to Turkey to buy a hotel at auction. But buying a hotel is not an easy task and all the heroes are waiting for new adventures, tougher than those that were in America, Africa and Korea.

Biography

He was born on August 5, 1961, in Almaty. His mother, Gulzhavgar Bayzhanbaeva (died in January 1999), worked for the Socialist Kazakhstan newspaper. His father, journalist Anuarbek Aukenev, passed away in 1961. He is the nephew of Anuarbek Nygmetzhanovich Bayzhanbaev (March 26, 1923, Semipalatinsk — October 21, 1989, Almaty), a renowned announcer of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Kazakh SSR, People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1973), Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR (since 1967), and Honored Radio Operator of the USSR (1958). During his school years, he was involved in swimming, Greco-Roman wrestling, and speed skating. He graduated with honors from the acting department of the Almaty State Theater and Art Institute in 1982. In the late 80s, he performed in the youth theater in Almaty, where he played numerous roles in various productions. He also worked with the Familiar Faces theater in Almaty. In 2013, he starred in the play America, based on Franz Kafka's novel, directed by Andreas Mertz from the Berlin Volksbühne Theater. Since 1984, he has been a permanent actor at the Kazakhfilm studio named after Sh. Aimanov, where he has worked since 1978. From 2002 to 2004, he was the head of the acting department at the Kazakhfilm studio. In 2016, he was part of the jury for Miss Almaty 2016. In 2017, he appeared in an advertisement for Shakh tea.