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Alla Kliouka was born on February 18, 1970 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. Alla graduated from Shepkin Theater School, Moscow in 1991 and she moved to New York. Fluent in English and Russian. She is an actress known for Cloud-Paradise (1990), Khochu v tyurmu (1999), From Hell to Hell (1993), Evlampiya Romanova. Sledstvie vedet diletant (2003), The Sopranos (1999), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).

Gene Farber was born on November 14th, in Minsk, Belarus (in the former Soviet Union.) He is an actor, known for X-Men: First Class (2011), Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010), and Virtuality (2009). After emigrating to Queens, NY at a young age, he attended the renowned Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in NYC where he was awarded 1st level Prize by the National Foundation For the Advancement in the Arts (NFAA/ ARTS week). Received his BFA in Acting from Boston University, and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Upon graduating from BU, he was awarded the prestigious Albert and Esther B. Kahn award. The actor balances his way through TV, film, and theatre, appearing in productions in NYC's renowned theaters such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Classic Stage Company, and others.

Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools. His earliest musical education was from his father, a cantor. He earned Honorary degrees from Bucknell University and Temple University. Beginning his career as a song-plugger for publisher Harry von Tilzer, Berlin worked as a singing waiter in Chinatown. In 1909, he was hired as a staff lyricist by the Ted Snyder Company, and became a partner to that firm four years later.

In 1910, he began doing vaudeville appearances in the United States and abroad, and also appeared with Snyder in the Broadway musical "Up and Down Broadway", that ran for 72 performances. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and served on its first board of directors between 1914-1918. Berlin enlisted the United States Army infantry in World War I, and was a sergeant at Camp Upton, New York. After the war, he established his own public-relations firm, and in 1921, he built the 1025-seat Music Box Theatre (at 239 W. 45th Street, New York) with Sam H. Harris. After Harris' death in 1941, Berlin assumed full ownership and the theatre remains a Broadway institution to this day.

Among his many awards was the Medal for Merit for his 1942 all-soldier show "This Is the Army", which toured the United States, Europe and South Pacific battle zones; all proceeds were assigned to Army Emergency Relief and other service agencies. Berlin was also a member of the French Legion of Honor and held the Congressional Medal of Honor for "God Bless America", the proceeds from which went to the God Bless America Fund. His songs were sung by Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, Alice Faye and many others. Irving Berlin died at the age of 101 of natural causes on September 22, 1989 in New York City.

Barbara Prakopenka was born on 29 April 1992 in Gomel, Republic of Belarus. She is an actress, known for Die Eifelpraxis (2016), Cut Off (2018) and Lena - Love of My Life (2010).

Anastasiya Krasovskaya was born on 2 January 1999 in Minsk, Belarus. She is an actress, known for Gerda (2021), Gandi molchal po subbotam and Feyk.

Arseni Khachaturan is a cinematographer based in New York.

He worked with Chuko & Arie Esiri on their debut feature film "This is my desire", which premiered at the 70' Berlinale Forum and was included in the Criterion Collection.

He worked on Dea Kulumbegashvili's debut feature film "Beginning". It was a 2020 Cannes Official Selection and won 4 awards at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, FIPRESCI at Toronto Film Festival, European Film awards nomination and was Georgia's submission for Oscars.

In 2021 Arseni worked with Luca Guadagnino on his film "Bones and All" starring Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet, which won Silver Lion for the Best Director at the 79th Venice Film Festival and Gianni Di Venanzo award for Best Cinematography. Afterwards he collaborated with Sam Levinson on his recent HBO series "The Idol" which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

Arseni has recently finished Dea Kulumbegashvili's sophomore feature April, which will have its world premiere in Competition at the 81st Venice Film Festival.

He is working with Kristoffer Borgli on his upcoming A24 feature "The Drama" starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

Anastasiya Ador is a Belarusian-Ukrainian actor and film-maker. She was born in Belarus, to a family of academics, but from an early age loved the performing arts. She was in stage-plays and film productions, and won international talent competitions in Egypt, Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. India too, had a special place in her heart, ever since she started learning Indian classical dance at the Indian Embassy in Minsk. When she was sixteen, among deteriorating economic conditions at home, Anastasiya made the decision to move to India. She did her diploma at a film school in Delhi and completed her Masters in Drama from East15 Acting School in London. She performs in 7 languages. In her acting work she is best known for portraying Svetlana on Prime's "FArfi", Chloe from MX Player's "Campus Diaries" and Aimee from Netflix's "Aranyak". She was selected for Aluna Lab, run by Vanessa Kirby, for emerging directors transitioning from stage to screen. Her several short films like "Sthir" and "No Lift" played at international film festivals. Anastasiya continues making her work on screen and stage, and is based in London.

Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian film maker, was born on September, 5th 1964 in Baranovichi, USSR. He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1987-1991 Sergei worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. He also worked as a translator from Japanese. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature film making. Loznitsa has been making documentary films since 1996 and is the author of 21 documentaries, as well as 4 feature films. In 2013 Sergei Loznitsa launched a film production and distribution company ATOMS & VOID. Currently working in both documentary and feature genres.

Katsiaryna Shulha started working in theater in 2008 and in television a few years after. After starring in the short movie "Academy Girl", in 2011 she portrayed a young Angelica, Vasco's mother, in "La ragazza americana". She guest starred in many productions, such as "Immaturi - Il viaggio", "I Cesaroni", "Un passo dal cielo" and "Che Dio ci aiuti". She got her first main role in the TV series "Talent High School - Il sogno di Sofia", where she was Marion, the conceited daughter of the school principal.

Shulha also worked as a model, posing in 2012 for "Shampa Love" collection.

Evgeniy Lazarev was born on 31 March 1937 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Iron Man 2 (2010), Duplex (2003) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). He was married to Akhmatova Obrucheva. He died on 18 November 2016 in Krasnogorsk, Krasnogorskiy rayon, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia.

Evgenia Dodina was born on 10 December 1964 in Belarus. She is an actress, known for One Week and a Day (2016), Killing Eve (2018) and Invisible (2011).

Aleksandra Bortich is a Russian actress. As a child, she studied at a music school and plays various instruments well, in particular the saxophone. The instrument was given to her when Sasha was 13 years old. In the tenth grade, following her friend Aleksandra went to the theater studio at the Palace of Pioneers. It was there that she realized that she wanted to become an actress. However, she failed to enter the theater school. She went to study at a pedagogical school, which she soon dropped out of. But even without a theater education, Aleksandra Bortich literally burst into Russian cinema and became, without exaggeration, an event in it.

Her rise began with a visit to the casting of the TV series Deffchonki (2012), where the young talent was noticed by director Nigina Sayfullaeva and invited to her film Name Me (2014) for the role of Sasha. Another Sasha - she played in Anna Melikyan's film About Love (2015), which made her famous.

Jack Tornek was born on 2 January 1887 in Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for A Five Foot Ruler (1917), Bombs and Banknotes (1917) and David Hartman: Counterspy (1955). He died on 18 February 1974 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Dmitriy Iosifov was born on 22 October 1965 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He is a director and actor, known for Diversant 3: Krym (2020), Lyubov Sovetskogo Soyuza (2024) and Elizaveta (2022).

Masha Matsel was born on 18 February 2001 in Minsk, Belarus. She is an actress, known for Dead Mountain (2020), Nado snimat filmy o lyubvi (2024) and Detka (2023).

Andrei Arlovski was born on 4 February 1979 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He is an actor, known for Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) and The Equalizer 2 (2018).

Polish-born Meyer Lansky emigrated to New York with his family and grew up in the Lower East Side. It was there that he ran into Bugsy Siegel, at the time a teenaged neighborhood gangster, and the two would remain lifelong friends. When Lansky saw the kinds of money Siegel was making from his various illegal activities--mainly gambling--he decided that this was the line of work for him. His specialty was the floating crap game, and he was so successful at that and other gambling schemes that he and Siegel soon controlled a large gang that was known as the Bugs and Meyer Mob. The gang's size, and Lansky's business acumen, attracted the attention of another local gangster, Lucky Luciano, who approached Lansky and invited him to participate in his idea of forming a national criminal syndicate. The Prohibition Era was a goldmine for Lansky and other gangsters, and he, Siegel and Luciano became incredibly wealthy from bootlegging, prostitution, drug smuggling, gambling and other rackets. In the 1930s Luciano's dream of a national crime commission became a reality, and Lansky was appointed to a seat on its board of directors. Lansky's specialty was financial matters and he proved to be a genius at laundering the mob's illegal profits and squeezing every last penny from its legal and illegal investments. When his friend Luciano was sent to prison, Lansky managed to get him an early release by ensuring his cooperation with the U.S. government in its preparation for the invasion of Sicily. After Luciano was deported to Italy, Lansky took over the management of his empire. Friendship only went so far in the mob, however. His good friend Siegel got into trouble by wasting millions of dollars of "wiseguy" money building Las Vegas, and when the decision was made to have him killed, Lansky went along with it.

In the 1950s Lansky formed a friendship with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and the mob was given basically a blank check to run all the rackets in Cuba, especially the gambling casinos, prostitution and drug smuggling, with a large cut of the profits going to Batista. From Cuba Lansky spread his gambling and prostitution rackets to other South American countries, and even had a hand--although not a public one--in the casinos in Hong Kong and Macao. Lansky's fortunes began to wane, however, in the late 1960s when the U.S. government went after him for income tax evasion. He fled to Israel, and claimed citizenship there as a returning Jew. However, after legal wrangling with the Israeli government, Lansky's visa was revoked and he was deported back to the U.S. He stood trial, but managed to avoid conviction, reportedly because of his extensive political connections. He settled into a comfortable life in Miami, Florida, where he died of a heart attack in 1983.

Darya Domracheva was born on 3 August 1986 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She is an actress, known for The Spy Who Loved Biathlon (2013), OL-profiler (2017) and Sochi 2014: XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014). She has been married to Ole Einar Bjørndalen since 17 July 2016. They have one child.

Tatiana Chekhova has over 20 years of experience in different fields of entertainment business. Originally from Belarus, she started her career as an actress at the age of 14, got her degree in Theater Arts from one of the most prestigious theater schools in Moscow - Vakhtangov Theater Academy (Vysshee Teatralnoe Uchilische imeni Schukina) later on, and was working on various stages of the best Moscow State theaters, including Vakhtangov State Theater, Theater of Satire and Ruben Simonov State Theater, before moving to Canada, where she started working in film and TV. Her acting credits include famous TV series: Criminal Minds, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, The Leftovers, Mindy Project, to name a few, films Carpool - directed by Arthur Hiller, and Hallmark's Channel Dad's Home and BET's Never and Again.

Tatiana relocated to Los Angeles over 15 years ago, where she began her career as a producer. She co-executive produced 26 episodes of the award winning animated 3D CGI TV series Cosmic Quantum Ray. The TV series intended to spark children's interest in quantum physics and cosmology, has been selected as a special public outreach program by IYA2009 declared by UN General Assembly and partially administered by UNESCO. The show has been distributed for broadcast worldwide and premiered in the US on 10/10/10, reaching 60 million households through the newly created HUB channel. Awards: Cartoons on the Bay Pulcinella Award 2009 -The Best TV Series. The Hugo Television Awards - Certificate of Merit, Animated TV Series. Some of her other credits include: Aimee Price, Short Film 2004 (Associate Producer). Awards: Boston International Film Festival 2006 - Jury Award. Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival 2006 - Eddy Award Best Narrative Short. Tatiana Produced Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award, 2005 - presented by Sr. Ben Kingsley and Executive Producer of Chekhov Shorts - a Night of Vaudeville - a stage production created for the opening event of new Santa Monica Boulevard in city of West Hollywood.

In the last three years Tatiana also a producer and co-produced a psychological thriller film "Unknown" which is now being distributed worldwide, a romantic drama "Never and Again" - a # 1 watched film on BET network and BET + and currently in post-production of her the most recent holiday movie "A Miracle Before Christmas".

Wenanty Nosul was born in 1949 in Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for 4 w 1 (2000), Anna Karenina (2000) and War and Peace (2007).

Pola Raksa was born on 14 April 1941 in Lida, Nowogródzkie, Poland [now Lida, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Przygoda z piosenka (1969), Zosya (1967) and Paryz - Warszawa bez wizy (1967). She was previously married to Andrzej Kostenko.

Michael Mark was born on 15 March 1886 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Wasp Woman (1959) and The Great Flamarion (1945). He died on 3 February 1975 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

George McKay was born on 15 April 1884 in Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Devil's Playground (1937), The Face Behind the Mask (1941) and Underground Agent (1942). He was married to Ottie Ardine. He died on 3 December 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Yury Paulau was born in Belarus. He is known for The Acrobat (2019).

Belarus-born Maryna Linchuk is best known for her work as a Victoria's Secret lingerie model. She appeared in five Victoria's Secret Fashion shows--2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. She has also appeared in campaigns for Escada, Versace, Dior, Donna Karen, Gap, Dolce & Gabbana, Massimo, Shiseido, Express and Blumarine, among others. Linchuk has graced the cover or been featured in many international fashion magazines, including "Vogue", "Numero", "Allure", "Harper's Bazaar", "Muse", "Glamour", "W" and "V", among others. She was born on September 4, 1987, in Minsk, Belarus, and was discovered while still in high school at age 16.