After completing a two-year course at the Kazakhfilm studio, Dimash Akhimov began acting in films in 1968. In 1970, he entered the acting department at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (Moscow) in the class of Boris Babochkin and graduated successfully in 1974. His diploma work included the lead role in William Shakespeare's play Othello, as well as the role of the mayor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector. In 1987, he entered the directing faculty at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, completing it in 1990. Over his 48-year acting career, he starred in more than 100 films and TV series across 13 studios in countries of the former USSR, as well as abroad, including Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Japan, India, Iran, and others. He currently resides in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His work in the film industry was recognized with the title "Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR" in 1990, and in 2008, he was awarded the "Order of Kurmet." In 2014, overcoming the language barrier, he played the role of a guide in the TV series Marco Polo, produced by The Weinstein Company. A year later, Dimash portrayed the criminal authority Buzaubas in Nurtas Adambayev's film Escape from the Village. Operation Mahabbat. In 2016, he played the role of the ruler of Moghulistan, Esen-Buga, in the film Kazakh Khanate.
Luna Papa
(Gynecologist)
The Leg
The Cannibal
Abai
(Майбасар)
The Book of Legends: The Mysterious Forest
Goodbye, Medeo
The Eastern Corridor, or the Software Racket...
(Vasya)
The Deer Man
The Inhabited Island
Waiting for the Sea
(Tamara and Dari's father)
The Sand-Storm
A Shot or It All Started on Saturday
(Bulat Asibov)
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Saga of the Love of Genghis Khan's Daughter
The Shelter for Majors
On the Night of Lunar Eclipse
Who Are You, Horseman?
Escape from Village
The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion
(Begemot)
Golden Autumn
(Beishenbai)
Shanghai
The Sky of My Childhood
Fear, Enemy, the Ninth Son
(Karashal)
The Fall of Otrar
Artemisia
Persecution
My Home on the Green Hills
Atone for the Guilt
House Under the Moon
Don Quixote of My Childhood
Once and for a Lifetime
Alpamys Goes to School
The Old Woman
Tractor Driver's Love
Кодекс молчания 2. След чёрной рыбы
(Adyl)