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Eve Harlow was born in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The 100 (2014), Next (2020) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).

Russian actor Yura Borisov is a critically acclaimed actor whose raw intensity and emotional depth and balancing brutality with fragility have made him a standout figure in contemporary Russian cinema.

He first appeared on screen in an ensemble role in Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena (2011), a quiet yet pivotal start to his career. His breakthrough came in 2019 with Boris Akopov's The Bull (2019), where his portrayal of Anton Bykov, a young man navigating the criminal underworld of 1990s Russia, earned him widespread recognition and the title of "Discovery of the Year" by GQ Russia.

Yura Borisov solidified his reputation in 2021 with Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021), a darkly satirical drama that won him Best Actor at the Russian Guild of Film Critics. That same year, he gained international acclaim for his role as the rough yet vulnerable miner Lyokha in Juho Kuosmanen's Compartment Number 6 (2021), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes and an Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language. His performance in Sean Baker's Anora (2024) as a Russian emigrant in Brooklyn further elevated his global profile, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor- the first for a Russian actor in over four decades.

In 2025, he starred in Konchitsya leto (2024), directed by Oscar-nominated Maxim Arbugaev, filming in harsh conditions of Yakutia as a conflicted ex-convict.

Margarita Levieva is an American actress. Born in Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), at age three she began the rigorous training program of a competitive rhythmic gymnast. Levieva continued to train for the next 13 years, winning competitions in Russia and eventually going on to compete in the United States after emigrating. When she was 11, Levieva's mother moved her and her twin brother to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in New York City. She attended high school in Secaucus, New Jersey. Levieva majored in economics at NYU and worked as a fashion buyer. Her continuing interest in acting led her to be accepted into the Meisner Training Program at the William Esper Studio. In 2005, New York Magazine featured her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in New York.

Mark Eydelshteyn was born on 18 February 2002 in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. He is an actor and director, known for Anora (2024), Nado snimat filmy o lyubvi (2024) and Strana Sasha (2022).

She was born in Leningrad, former Soviet Union. Her parents moved with her from Russia to New York when she was 17 years old, and she continues to reside in New York.

While working as a hairdresser at a salon, she was discovered by Luc Besson, the co-writer of Transporter 3, in New York, when she crossed a street. He gave her acting lessons and cast her as the female lead in Transporter 3.

Anton Yelchin was an American actor, known for playing Bobby in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Chekov in the Star Trek (2009) reboot, Charlie Brewster in the Fright Night (2011) remake, and Jacob in Like Crazy (2011).

He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, USSR, to a Jewish family. His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were a successful pair of professional figure skaters in Leningrad, and his grandfather was also a professional sportsman, a soccer player. Anton was a six-month-old baby when he immigrated to the United States, where his parents settled in California and eventually developed coaching careers. He demonstrated his strong personality from the early age of four, and declined his parents' tutelage in figure skating because he was fond of acting and knew exactly what he wanted to do in his life.

Yelchin attended acting classes in Los Angeles, and eventually was noticed by casting agents. In 2000, at the age of 10, he made his debut on television, appearing as Robbie Edelstein in the medical drama ER (1994). At the age of 11, he shot to fame as Bobby Garfield, co-starring opposite Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), and earning himself the 2002 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film as Leading Young Actor. Over the course of his acting career, Yelchin has already played roles in more than 20 feature films and television productions, including Pavel Chekov in the hugely successful reboot Star Trek (2009), and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).

Outside of his acting profession, Anton loved reading, and was also fond of playing chess. He wrote music and performed with a band, where he also played piano and guitar.

Anton lived in Los Angeles, California, until his death on the evening of June 19, 2016, outside his LA home, when his parked Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled backward on his steep driveway, pinning him against a brick pillar and security fence. This was due to badly designed shifter that indicated park when it was in neutral. This death, along with reports of other near-misses, resulted in a recall of that model.

Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books "Yul: The Man Who Would Be King" and "Empire and Odyssey" by his son, Yul "Rock" Brynner, that many of the details of Brynner's early life became clear.

Yul sometimes claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality, he was the son of Marousia Dimitrievna (Blagovidova), the Russian daughter of a doctor, and Boris Yuliyevich Bryner, an engineer and inventor of Swiss-German and Russian descent. He was born in their home town of Vladivostok on 11 July 1920 and named Yuli after his grandfather, Jules Bryner. When Yuli's father abandoned the family, his mother took him and his sister Vera to Harbin, Manchuria, where they attended a YMCA school. In 1934 Yuli's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real sense of family. He met luminaries such as Jean Cocteau and became an apprentice at the Theatre des Mathurins. He worked as a trapeze artist with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company.

He traveled to the U.S. in 1941 to study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe. That same year, he debuted in New York as Fabian in "Twelfth Night" (billed as Youl Bryner). After working in a very early TV series, Mr. Jones and His Neighbors (1944), he played on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Mary Martin, winning awards and mild acclaim. He and his wife, actress Virginia Gilmore, starred in the first TV talk show, Mr. and Mrs. (1948). Brynner then joined CBS as a television director. He made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later Mary Martin recommended him for the part he would forever be known for: the King in Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "The King and I". Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film (The King and I (1956)) and winning the Oscar for Best Actor.

For the next two decades, he maintained a starring film career despite the exotic nature of his persona, performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharaohs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the same shaved head and indefinable accent. In the 1970s he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in "The King and I". When he developed lung cancer in the mid 1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause, for broadcast after his death. The cancer and its complications, after a long illness, ended his life. Brynner was cremated and his ashes buried in a remote part of France, on the grounds of the Abbey of Saint-Michel de Bois Aubry, a short distance outside the village of Luzé. He remains one of the most fascinating, unusual and beloved stars of his time.

Sasha Luss was born in Magadan, Magadan Oblast and moved to Moscow at a young age. As a child, she had no interest in pursuing a modeling career, preferring to spend her time writing and dancing. She frequently participated in ballet competitions before she suffered an ankle injury which prevented her from continuing her hobby. Her mother's friends and even strangers would compliment Sasha's modeling potential. When Sasha was thirteen years old, her mother took her to visit a modeling agency, where she was instantly signed. Luss has stated that her grandmother disapproved of this career move, claiming that modeling is a terrible, immoral business.

Sasha made her film debut as Princess Lïhio-Minaa in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and then headlined the action thriller Anna (2019), in the title role.

The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. This resulted in high expectations for his second feature Andrei Rublev (1966), which was banned by the Soviet authorities for two years. It was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival at four o'clock in the morning on the last day, in order to prevent it from winning a prize - but it won one nonetheless, and was eventually distributed abroad partly to enable the authorities to save face. Solaris (1972), had an easier ride, being acclaimed by many in Europe and North America as the Soviet answer to Kubrick's '2001' (though Tarkovsky himself was never too fond of his own film nor Kubrick's), but he ran into official trouble again with Mirror (1975), a dense, personal web of autobiographical memories with a radically innovative plot structure. Stalker (1979) had to be completely reshot on a dramatically reduced budget after an accident in the laboratory destroyed the first version, and after Nostalghia (1983), shot in Italy (with official approval), Tarkovsky defected to Europe. His last film, The Sacrifice (1986) was shot in Sweden with many of Ingmar Bergman's regular collaborators, and won an almost unprecedented four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. He died of lung cancer at the end of the year. Two years later link=Sergei Parajanov dedicated his film Ashik Kerib to Tarkovsky.

Tina Ivlev is an American actress best known for her role as Nightsister Merrin in the hit action-adventure video games "Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order" and "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor." Ivlev played Nightsister Merrin, the last surviving Nightsister on Dathomir, providing her likeness as well as full performance-capture and voice-acting work for the role.

Starring as Eve in the thriller, "Bound to Vengeance," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Ivlev garnered much praise for her tour de force performance as a young woman who outwits her kidnapper (Richard Tyson) and attempts to rescue his other victims.

Recently on stage, Ivlev originated the lead role of Ester in the gripping drama, "Dry Land," a Colt Coeur production written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. The play, which immediately became a New York Times Critics' Pick, played to sold out houses in New York.

Her other screen credits include "Charming the Hearts of Men" opposite Sean Astin and Kelsey Grammar, "Deadtectives," and "Death Clique." She has appeared in several guest-starring and recurring television roles, including "Shameless," "All Rise," "Queen of the South," "9-1-1," "Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous," and "Major Crimes" among many others.

Olesya Yurivna Rulina is a Russian-American actress. She is best known for co-starring in all three films of the High School Musical franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also starred in the films Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous (2008), Flying By (2009), Expecting Mary (2010) and Family Weekend (2013).

George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in 1936, was as Curly Randall in Find the Lady (1936). His U.S. debut, the same year, with Twentieth Century-Fox, was as Lord Everett Stacy in Lloyd's of London (1936). During the late 1930s and early 1940s he made a number of movies as Simon Templar--the Saint--and as Gay Lawrence, the Falcon. He played Nazis (Maj. Quive-Smith in Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941)), royalty (Charles II in Otto Preminger's Forever Amber (1947)), and biblical roles (Saran of Gaza in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)). He won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as theatre critic Addison De Witt in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950). In 1957 he hosted a TV series, The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957). He continued to play mostly villains and charming heels until his suicide in 1972.

Russian Award-winning actress Darya Ekamasova was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. She graduated from a music college, playing piano. At the age of 16, she was invited to star in a film by the famous Russian director Andrew Proshkin. She played a girl from an orphanage named Cicciolina. Darya really liked acting in films and, despite disagreements with her parents, she left music and entered the oldest Russian Academy of Theater Arts. During her studies, Darya starred with famous Russian directors such as Boris Khlebnikov, Alexey Fedorchenko, Nikolay Dostal, Nikolay Khomeriki. Films with her participation have repeatedly represented Russia at international film festivals such as Cannes, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, etc. In 2010, Ekamasova played the lead part in the play "Life is Successful", which received the highest theater Award "Golden Mask". At the same time, the outstanding Russian director Andrew Smirnov noticed her and invited her to play the lead part in the film "Once upon a time there lived a simple woman". This is a folk drama, in the center of the story is a simple peasant woman Varvara. Through the prism of her life and love, the fate of the country is shown. This performance was highly appreciated by critics and viewers. Darya received all main awards in her country, as well as High Commendations at the Asia Pacific Screen Award and became a member of the Asian Film Academy. This film was shown in many countries and became her hallmark in the world of cinema. The film was screened at the 2012 New York Film Festival. That time Darya first came to America. Her life is divided into before and after. She fell in love with New York and began to fly there regularly.

In 2013, Ekamasova starred in the American film «Fourth Dimension» with Grolsh Film Works and VICE film. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2015, The play "Knock" was premiered at the Lost & Found Theater in New York. Her work attracted the attention of American producer Ben Barentholtz, who gave the world such outstanding filmmakers as the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, etc. Barentholtz invited Darya to play the lead part in his directorial debut film «Alina». In August 2017, the premiere took place in Los Angeles, where the film was presented by David Lynch himself. He praised Darya's acting work in this film.

In 2017, one of the best casting directors in America, Rori Bergman, drew attention to her and Ekamasova joined the team of «The Americans», she became a series regular character in seasons 5 and 6. Her partners were Matthew Rice, Carrie Russell and Noah Emmerich.

At the same time, she continued to act in Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine. Her role as Polina Schneider in Aleksey Fedorchenko's film "Angels of the Revolution" was noted by critics at the Rome Film Festival. And in 2017, Darya received the Chopard Talent Award, presented for the first time to a Russian actress.

In 2019, a TV series about the women's Gulag "A.L.Zh.I.R." was released, where Ekamasova played the lead part of Olga Pavlova, who was imprisoned due to the Stalinist repressions of 1937.

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the 72nd Cannes Film Festival premiered «Give Me Liberty». «Give me Liberty» is an absurd and incredibly lyrical comedy by Kirill Mikhanovsky, which won The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. She also created a magnificent image of Lenin's famous wife Nadezhda Krupskaya in the film "Lenin. Inevitability" directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, and Yevgeny Mironov himself became her co-star.

And in 2019, the Norwegian TVshow Occupied was released on Netflix, where Darya played a lesbian girl who came under political pressure because of her sharp tongue.

In 2021, the «Khrustalny» TV series by Serbian director Dusan Gligorov was released, which became the best TV series in Russia in 2021. Ekamasova played the main female role of a prostitute Katya Skazka, who helps to catch a pedophile maniac.

In 2022, Darya appears in the series «To the lake 2», which was the first Russian project for Netflix.

In August 2022, at Window to Europe Film Festival, Ekamasova won The Best Actress Award for her performance in the film «Just before» directed by Alisa Erokhina.

She continues to study music and her dream is to play a part of a pianist.

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Emilia Schüle was born on 28 November 1992 in Blagoveshchensk, Russia. She is an actress, known for Freche Mädchen (2008), Tatort (1970) and Dreamfactory (2019).

Bar Paly was born in Nizhniy Tagil, USSR, before relocating to Tel Aviv, Israel with her family when she was seven. In her early twenties she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for acting. Bar is best known for her recurring role as Special Agent Anna Kolcheck on NCIS: LA, and her hilarious turn as Sorina Luminita in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain. She became a U.S. citizen in 2016.

Irina Shayk--sometimes credited as Irina Sheik--was born in the USSR on January 6, 1986, as Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova. She is a model and actress known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue between 2007 and 2014. She was the cover model for the 2011 issue. Shayk made her acting debut as Megara alongside Dwayne Johnson in Hercules (2014).

Born in Moscow, a student of Moscow Academy of Dramatic Arts, Pasha (aka Pavel) Lychnikoff, appeared on Moscow's stages in such productions as Gogol's Inspector General and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In early 90s Pasha moved to the United States to pursue his acting career there. Arriving at JFK Airport with five dollars in his pocket, speaking only a few words of English, Pasha made his way to Brighton Beach, Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, and then to Los Angeles to act.

As Pasha's career unfolded, he was introduced to bright minds that molded him as an actor and person. He first received a great helping hand and insight from Jonathan Banks at UCLA Film Theatre Department, which was followed by encouragement from private lessons with The Groundlings' creator Gary Austin. Jumping the fence at Twenty Century Fox paid off. Pasha was able to land his first television guest star role on the critically acclaimed NYPD Blue. This opportunity also earned him his membership with Screen Actors Guild. While working on NYPD Blue, Pasha became great friends with writer, creator, and executive producer David Milch. For the rest of Pasha's life, Milch became a mentor and friend who helped him greatly through his career.

While Pasha was living his dream of acting on television, little did he know that he was the first ever Russian to become a series regular on US television. Pasha's first series regular role was on David Milch and Tony Yarkovich's TV drama "Big Apple" on CBS after which he has had more than 40 TV guest appearances.

Lychnikoff continues to build an impressive resume in both television and film. Pasha has starred as Balzanov, a telegraph operator, in a lawless town of the second and third seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series "Deadwood", created by David Milch. On the comedy side of acting, he had a recurring role on Chuck Lorre's comedy "The Big Bang Theory" as cosmonaut Dmitri Rezenov, and a lead role on the Russian hit series and number one comedy "Fizruk" as hysterical Misha Buddhist. His film credits include "Miami Vice" directed by Michael Mann with Colin Farell and Jamie Foxx, "Charlie Wilson's War" directed by Mike Nichols with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" directed by Steven Spielberg, "Star Trek" directed by J.J. Abrams, and "A Good Day to Die Hard" with Bruce Willis, and Motherland by Peter Buslov.

Pasha has a big passion for theater which extended beyond acting to producing. The Shelter, which he created alongside Valeri Belykovich, was his production debut in Los Angeles. The play got 5 Ovation Awards nominations in 2006 in 5 different categories including the World Premier Play, Play Intimate Theater, Direction of a Play, the Ensemble Performance, and Lighting Design. His performance in the play got him rave reviews by a number of critics.

In this coming acting season, Pasha will be seen in multiple projects such as a recurring on the 4th season of "Ray Donovan", mini series "Insomnia", and Sony Entertainment's "Beyond Valkyrie: the 4th Reich".

Oksana Akinshina was born on 19 April 1987 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Lilya 4-Ever (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and Sputnik (2020). She was previously married to Archil Gelovani and Dmitriy Litvinov.

Olga Tchakova (known professionally as Olga Fonda) is a Russian-American film and television actress and model. She is also known for her role as Nadia Petrova in The Vampire Diaries (2013-2014).

While vacationing in Los Angeles, California, Fonda was scouted by agent Paul Fisher to pursue modeling, her longtime ambition. After acting in TV commercials, she played a Russian ballerina in the 2009 independent film Love Hurts.

Fonda, who has modeled since at least 2007 in Japan, Italy and the United States, went on to appear in television series including How I Met Your Mother, Nip/Tuck, Melrose Place, and Entourage, and played Owen Wilson's girlfriend in a nonspeaking role in Little Fockers. She was cast in the 2011 romantic-comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, though her scene did not make the final cut; she does appear in the film's trailer.

In 2010, Fonda was cast in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. She had a supporting role in 2011's Real Steel. She played Nadia in The Vampire Diaries. In 2018, she was cast in the role of Sarah in the Netflix series Altered Carbon.

In 2012, Olga appeared in television commercials for the related companies TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods TV. Fonda was cast in Agent X, appearing opposite Sharon Stone.

She is unrelated to the Fonda acting family and has said her reason for adopting that stage name "started as a mystery, [and so] I'm going to keep it a mystery. There's really nothing to it but maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I got my name."

Fonda supports the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital after being introduced to the charity by Jason Thomas Gordon, who started a campaign for the hospital called, Music Gives to St. Jude Kids.

She is also a supporter of The Heroes Project, which was founded by Tim Medvetz to help wounded veterans.

Sofia is a Master of Sports in Rhythmic Gymnastics. She has appeared in more than 40 films and is also an accomplished theatrical actress. She became "Best Actress" in Amedia Lab and got "Golden Leaf Award" for best female role in a Dramatic Performance "Our town". Sofia is a graduate of the MKhAT ( System of Stanislavsky). In 2016, she got a huge break when she landed the key role of 'Lyudmila Nikolayeva' in the BBC/AMC series MCMAFIA, starring James Norton. Other notable roles include the role of ' 'Masha' in DREAM LORDS, PARALLEL LINES MEET IN INFINITY, CASANOVA, 1703, and as 'Liza' in the drama, THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET, which was directed by Renat Davletyarov; and the comedy drama series THE LAST MINISTER by Roman Volobuev. Sofya is playing the key role of 'Elena' in the series of VIKINGS:VALHALLA. She can next be seen in the leading role of 'Sasha' in the feature film TETRIS opposite Taron Egerton (Rocketman). It is directed by Jon S. Baird (Stan & Ollie), and produced by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, Kingsman), and will be released later this year.

Aleksey Serebryakov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Aleksey was born in Moscow. His mother was a doctor, father was an aircraft engineer. Aleksey studied at a music school in the bayan class and once got into a photo for a report about an educational institution, which was published in the 'Evening Moscow' newspaper. The photo caught the eye of an assistant director who was looking for a boy who looked like the actor Vadim Spiridonov, and Aleksey got into the film Otets i syn (1980), and then into the TV series Vechnyy zov (1973). Then he played the main role of Vladimir Kovalev in the film Alye pogony (1980).

In 1981, Serebryakov worked as an actor at the Syzran Drama Theater named after Aleksei Tolstoy, after he could not enter the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. In 1986 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts of Anatoli Lunacharsky (workshop of Oleg Tabakov). In 1986-1991, he was an actor at the Studio Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov.

In 2000, Serebryakov played crime boss Oleg Zvantsev, nicknamed 'Lawyer' in the series Banditskiy Peterburg: Advokat (2000). The next major work, which caused a wide resonance, was the main role of the battalion commander Vasiliy Tverdokhlebov in the 2004 series Shtrafbat (2004). It can be said that at that moment Serebryakov finally gained a reputation as a person who brilliantly plays ambiguous characters in ambiguous films.

He played the main role in the social drama Leviathan (2014), which was released worldwide in 2014. For this acting work, for the second time in the history of Russian cinema, he was nominated for the European Film Academy Award.

Greta Onieogou was born on 14 March 1991 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is an actress, known for Fever Pitch (2005), Miss Sloane (2016) and Undercover Grandpa (2017).

Costa Ronin's journey in the world of entertainment has been nothing short of remarkable. Born and raised on the West Coast of Russia, he embarked on his acting career at the tender age of five moved through theater and radio entertainment learning from Russian and international masters until his talent and passion for the craft led him to a global stage.

In 1996, Costa made a significant move to New Zealand, where he continued to hone his acting skills. Later, in 2001, he relocated to Australia, becoming an integral part of their vibrant acting scene.

Notably, Costa also graced the big screen in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," sharing the screen with stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, making him the first and only Russian actor ever to have worked with the master.

He is set to captivate audiences once again in the upcoming Netflix series "Obliterated. Recent accomplishments include a lead role on the NBC series "Endgame," directed by the talented Justin Lin of the "Fast and Furious" fame amongst others.

His television credits also include starring roles in acclaimed shows like "The Americans" on FX Network and "Homeland" for Showtime. On the comedy side, he showcased his prowess opposite Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson in the ABC comedy "Splitting Up Together." Keep an eye out for Costa in the independent feature "ISS," where he stars alongside Chris Messina, debuting at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival.

In a significant crossover, Costa became part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as 'Anton Vanko' in "Agent Carter." The following year, he ventured into the DC Comics Universe, portraying 'Luka Volk' in "Gotham," a remarkable feat of acting in both Marvel and DC worlds. Costa's diverse film credits encompass projects like "The Body Tree" and "Brighton Beach," produced by Molly Connors of "Birdman" fame. He also made appearances in series like "Scorpion," "Agent X" alongside Sharon Stone, and Guillermo del Toro's hit series "The Strain."

Maria began hitting tennis balls at the age of four. At the age of six, she participated in an exhibition in Moscow which featured Martina Navratilova. At the age of nine, she began training at Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy. During her first two years at the Academy, she was separated from her mother Yelena due to visa restrictions and finances. Maria would travel to tournaments with her father, Yuri, and coaches Robert Lansdorp, and 1984 Australian Open boys' doubles champion Mike Baroch. Yuri eventually replaced Baroch and Lansdorp with former ATP Top 100 player Michael Joyce, who guided Maria to 3 Grand Slam titles and the World #1 ranking (Lansdorp was quoted as saying in 2004: "I've never received anything from one player. Not even a $500 gift. They're all multi-millionaires but I've never received one thing. And I'm telling you, if Maria doesn't put a Mercedes convertible in my driveway, I'm going to shoot myself". Sharapova attended Lansdorp's 75th birthday party in 2013). Off-court, her interests include modeling, singing, jazz dancing, movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001), and reading.

Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky is a Russian stage and screen actor. He was born in Moscow, USSR. From a very young age he was into music, dancing and playing football (soccer). He has two brothers, an elder Egor and a younger Ivan.

In 1996, at the age of 11, Danila, following his brothers, went to a special navy school preparing students for the Military Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002 he graduated from the school, but eventually acting won him. However, he does not think that the years spent at the navy school were wasted.