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Dmitry Chepovetsky was born in 1970 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), RED (2010) and Man of the Year (2006).

Taras Kostyuk was born on 26 August 1966 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Elysium (2013), Untold (2002) and White Chicks (2004). He died in June 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Olga Sumskaya is a Soviet and Ukrainian actress and TV presenter. Honored Artist and People's Artist of Ukraine. Olga Sumskaya was born in Lvov, Soviet Union in a family of actors of the Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko. In 1987 she graduated from KGITI named after Ivan Karpenko-Karyy. And the following year she became an actress of the National Academic Theater of Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka.

The role of Roksolana in the series Roxolana (1997) and two sequels brought great popularity to Olga Sumskaya.

Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, actress and writer best known for her correspondent work on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for almost 9 years. She was the Phony Photo Booth, which turned into the show's longest running comedy piece. (that didn't have Jay in it) Kira has a half hour stand up special on Showtime called Here Comes Trouble and a one hour stand up special on Amazon called You Did This To Me. She's the sidekick to host Donald Faison on the Netflix game show, Winsanity, and she's been a recurring comedian on several FOX television shows: Punchline and The Drama. Kira was a series regular on two seasons of TruTV's How To Be A Grownup, and also shot two seasons of the Facebook series The Turndown which was shot exclusively in a bed. She's currently a stand up comic on Lights Out with David Spade on Comedy Central, but many of her fans remember her from the hidden camera show, Girls Behaving Badly, where she was a series regular for 4 seasons. Kira has been featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Nickelodeon, the Disney network and one of her most unique claims to fame is when Hell's Kitchen made her the "prize" for the winning team of chefs who got a night out at The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip. Kira has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal several times and was the 2018 winner of the Big Sky Comedy Festival in Montana. Still, one of her greatest achievements in showbiz was writing jokes for Joan Rivers on the television series How'd You Get So Rich? on TV Land. Currently, Kira is working on writing and producing her own talk show that takes place inside of a sauna. It's called Let's Get Sweat! and she interviews celebrity comedians fully naked inside a blazing hot sauna. Kira is also gearing up to record a new one hour comedy album with the label 800 Pound Gorilla Records.

Bogdan Stupka is one of Ukraine's most famous actors. His most memorable stage role was as Tevye the Milkman in Sholom Aleichem's Tevye-Tevel (aka... Fiddler on the Roof (1971)). After a brief stint as the Ukrainean Minister of Culture, he is the Executive Director of the Ivan Franko State Theater in Kyiv. Along with his administrative duties, Mr. Stupka was performing several times a week in various new and traditional productions. He also toured with his company, was appearing in two or three films every year, while still devoted much time to his wife of many years as well as his son Ostap Stupka and his grandchildren.

Ruslana Lyzhychko was born on the 24 of May 1973 and was raised in L'viv, in the ancient capital of Galychyna. She graduated from L'viv Lisenko Concervatory. She's a song-writer, composer, producer, and arranger and director of her videos. She has recorded 8 CDs and is now the most popular singer in Ukraine. She won the 2004 Eurovision Song contest in Turkey and was the first Ukrainian to win World Music Award as Best Selling Ukrainian Act in Las Vegas.

Mark Zak was born in 1959 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Enemy at the Gates (2001), Speed Racer (2008) and Never Look Away (2018).

Aleksander Mincer was born on 4 June 1957 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for The Passion of the Christ (2004), Modì (1989) and War and Love (1985).

Marina Kotovnikov was born on 30 November 1972 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Sex and the City (1998), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and As the World Turns (1956).

Waléra Kanischtscheff was born on November 12, 1965 in Lviv (Lvov/Lwiw / Lemberg), Galicia, Carpathian Mountains, Ukrainian SSR as Waléra. Parents: Maya Putiloff / Wolkow - ballet-dancer / choreographer, Pavel Kanischtscheff - ballet-dancer / musician... He is known for his work on Einspruch II (2001), Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009), Snowman's Land (2010), Sing (2016) and Babylon Berlin (2017), Roxy (2022-23)...

Yaroslav Poverlo is a Actor and also a Russian and Ukrainian Dialect-Dialogue Coach for Films, TV, and Commercial productions. During the past twenty years he have been work with many of the world's well-known stars in the film industry on a number of productions in Canada, USA and Europe. Yaroslav was born in Boryslav, Lvov Oblast, Ukraine, USSR. He is known for his work on Welcome to Marwen (2018), Six Season-2 (2018), Agent X (2015), Altered Carbon Season-1 (2018), Always Be My Maybe (2019).

Emanuel Ax was born on 8 June 1949 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002). He is married to Yoko Nozaki. They have two children.

John Shane is a Ukrainian-born director, writer, producer and singer-song writer. He has directed such short films as Male Order, The Long Silence After and Shotgun Love which he co-directed with his brother Andre Shane. He has produced such TV Shows as Rock and Roll Island, Danny's Donut Shop and the anthology show Reel Cool Time. John is also the driving creative force behind the rock band The General.

Was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR). Graduated in Lviv Academy of Fine Art in 1984 with distinction.

Artist, creator of numerous projects in the field of visual art, winner of 25 international art exhibitions in Canada, USA, South Korea, Latvia, Poland, Norway, Spain, Ukraine. The artist's book "Jacob Bohme" was awarded as World's Best Book at International Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station Mir in 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide. The premiere of the first feature film "Las Meninas" took place in the competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (2008). The film has participated at 26 International film festivals worldwide in ten of them in the competition.

Lyubov Arkus was born on 20 September 1960 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. She is a director and actress, known for Anton's Right Here (2012), What Beat You Nothing (2021) and Balabanov. Kolokolnya. Rekviyem (2022).

Anzhelika Varum was born on 26 May 1969 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for 12 stulev (2004), Krasota trebuyet (2008) and YA tebya lyublyu - Je t'aime (2023). She has been married to Leonid Agutin since 15 July 2000. They have one child. She was previously married to Maksim Nikitin.

Tatjana Lukina was born on 22 May 1949 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Zolotoye kryltso (1972), Vera Wesskamp (1992) and Ya khochu, chtoby menya lyubili... (2012).

Wieslaw Hudon was born in 1943 in Sambor, Lvov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Sambir, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for À chacun son Borinage - Images d'Henri Storck (1978). He died on 6 September 2021 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Yaroslav Gavrilyuk was born on 29 October 1951 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Dudaryky (1980), Tri gilzy ot angliyskogo karabina (1983) and Skazki starogo volshebnika (1985). He died on 25 May 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Vitaliy Sementsov was born on 19 October 1953 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Utro vechera mudreneye (1981), Byvshaya (2007) and Efrosinya (2010).

Yevgeniy Myasishchev was born on 2 June 1945 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for A Very Old Story (1968).

Ivan Gavrilyuk was born on 15 October 1948 in Iosifovka, Lvov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]. He is an actor and director, known for Chotyry lysty fanery (1992), Nebylytsi pro Ivana (1989) and Khlib i sil (1971).

Elena Vesnina is a Russian professional tennis player. Vesnina has an all-court game, but mainly focuses on having an offensive baseline game. She is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. Her game is centered around getting control in rallies by using her groundstrokes to dominate play or move her opponents around the court in order to find an opening. Her forehand is consistent and powerful, but her backhand is her strongest shot. She uses it to find many angles on the court and dominate play. She possesses a good serve and regularly hits it between 100-110 mph (161-177 km/h), but relies on placement and accuracy to dominate and serve aces.

She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2017 Wimbledon tournaments with Ekaterina Makarova, and the 2016 Australian Open mixed-doubles title with Bruno Soares. In June 2018, Vesnina was the No. 1 in women's doubles. Her career-high singles ranking is No. 13, achieved in March 2017.

Vesnina debuted in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Québec. One of her best seasons was in 2009, reaching her first WTA final and attaining a ranking of 24 in the year end. She repeated her success in 2013, reaching her best for a long period ranking of 21 on 22 July. Then she won her first WTA titles in Hobart and Eastbourne. After falling out of the top 100 in October 2014, Vesnina experienced an upturn in fortunes in 2016, making her first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon. She continued her good form into 2017 and won the biggest singles title of her career to date at Indian Wells, claiming her first title.

Vesnina has been consistently one of the highest ranked doubles players during her career, ending every season since 2008 ranked within the top 30, and every season since 2011 in the top ten. In May 2012, she entered a regular partnership with Ekaterina Makarova, becoming one of the leading teams on tour. They have won twelve titles together, including three Grand Slam titles, the 2016 WTA Finals, as well as Olympic gold at Rio. Vesnina together with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova are gold medalists of 2013 Summer Universiade in women's doubles (Kazan, Russia).

Jerzy Glybin was born on 3 November 1952 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Television Theater (1953), Smierc jak kromka chleba (1994) and Benek (2007).

Sergei Stasenko was born on 25 April 1950 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is a cinematographer, known for Diskzhokey (1988), Pod sozvezdiem bliznetsov (1979) and Return from Orbit (1984).