He was born on August 8, 1948 in Agsu.
Graduated from Azerbaijan Institute of Arts (1969).
Since 1972 - actor of the film studio "Azerbaijanfilm".
Laureate of the All-Union Film Festival in the nomination "Second awards for acting" for 1974.
He held the position of first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, laureate of the state award.
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982).
"Shooting is a job"
3. Mukhina "Soviet screen" No 2, 1975
It is not often that the actor has such a happy beginning: he starred in three films in a row, immediately became a participant in two film festivals - the 7th All-Union in Baku and the 3rd International in Tashkent, received an award for Best Actor and a whole heap of proposals to star, film, film. This is how the young Azerbaijani actor Rasim Balayev entered the big cinema. However, the very first step to the screen was taken by him earlier, when Rasim, who had just graduated from the Institute of Arts, played a tiny role (one of the patriots shot in the wasteland) in the film “This sweet word is freedom”.
We went to Baku.
. . . When Hasan Seidbeyli offered Rasim Balayev the role of the great Azerbaijani poet of the XIV century Nasimi, the choice of director puzzled many. You bet! Poet-rebel, philosopher, humanist, who sang the “end of the living” – Man, Nasimi asserted with his poetry the beauty and power of nature in spite of the cruelty and violence of the terrible era of Timurleng. And this truly titanic personality was to be played by a young and inexperienced Rasim Balayev.
The young actor successfully performed the role.
But about his second role – about Azer from the film directed by A. Babaev “Your first hour” – this, perhaps, can not be said. A wayward modern young man, and nothing more – he does not even play like this, but rather just portrays the actor. And his special guilt here is not, because the dramatic material of the role did not give the actor the opportunity to create a bright, full-blooded image.
After these two paintings, Balayev was told that with his “facture” he should play only positive characters. But he refuted these speculations, playing a purely negative role of Lieutenant Aziz in the film directed by R. Ojagov “The Avenger from Ganjabasar”.
The year of 1974, the year of Nasimi, ended happily for Rasim Balayev, he was awarded the prize of the Lenin Komsomol of Azerbaijan. And I want such a wonderful beginning of the actor’s fate would receive a worthy continuation. The fact that there are grounds for this is convinced by the words of Rasnma Balayev himself, whom I asked:
- Now, after five movies, is it easier to shoot?
- “It’s always hard to shoot,” Rasim replied. It's a job.”