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Yayan Ruhian was born in Tasikmalaya (West Java) on October 19, 1968. He found his passion in Pencak Silat and other martial arts, becoming a professional martial arts instructor. Ruhian is also known as an instructor of an inner breathing technique designed to condition of the body to withstand any impact. In 1988, he began teaching at Perguruan Silat Tenaga Dasar Indonesia (Inner Breathing Technique Silat School in Indonesia). During his term as an instructor he traveled regularly to teach in different cities and abroad.

Ruhian was a member of a demonstration team who performed at Festival des Arts Martiaux de Paris Bercy in Paris, France, while also participating at Institude Judo Paris in France to showcase Silek Minang (West Sumatra - Minang-style Silat.)

In 2008, Ruhian was hired as one of the choreographers for Merantau as a specialist in both Silat Harimau and Silat Minang. While casting the role of Eric, Gareth was unable to find an actor who would handle both the acting and fighting required for the role. Ruhian auditioned and won the co-starring role.

Lovely, slender, and sensual raven-haired knockout Laurette Marcia Gemser was born on October 5, 1950 in Java, Indonesia. In 1955 Gemser left Indonesia at age four and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. Laura grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht and attended Mulo Regentesseschool high school. She studied fashion design at the Artibus Art School in Utrecht. Gemser first gained public recognition with her nude modeling in various men's magazines in Belgium and the Netherlands. The exotic dark-haired beauty moved to Italy in the mid-1970's and made her film debut as Janine in the obscure Amore libero - Free Love (1974). However, it was Laura's small, but memorable role as a masseuse in Emmanuelle II (1975) that really launched her career in racy soft-core exploitation fare. Gemser achieved her greatest enduring international cult popularity with her incredibly erotic and uninhibited portrayals of the titular hedonistic and sexually adventurous globe-trotting photojournalist in the steamy "Black Emanuelle" series that were often directed by the notorious Joe D'Amato and frequently co-starred Gemser's real-life actor husband Gabriele Tinti. Other notable parts include charismatic cult leader the Divine One in Divine Emanuelle (1981), evil sorceress Indun in Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982), and compassionate mutant telepath Lilith in Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983). Outside of acting, Laura also worked on a handful of movies as a costume designer. Gemser quit the motion picture business in the early 1990's and still lives in Italy.

Fiona Mollison was born on 9 January 1954 in Java, East Indies. She is an actress, known for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Strangers (1978) and As Time Goes By (1992).

A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.

Pim Vosmaer was born on 16 December 1953 in Djakarta, Java, Indonesia. He is an actor and director, known for Onderweg naar morgen (1994), De geheime dienst (2000) and Dossier Verhulst (1986).

Barry Prima (real name Bertus Knoch) was born in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. His father was a Dutch physician, his mother Indonesian. They had four children (three boys, one girl), with Bertus being the oldest. His sister graduated from Pajajaran University in Bandung with a medical degree and is a doctor, but Bertus only got his high school degree from Aloysius High School in Bandung.

He learned taekwando in a small martial-arts studio located behind his father's house on Jalan Dago (Dago street). The taekwando master at that time was known as Master Kang, from Malaysia. In his early 20s, Bertus came to the attention of Indonesian producer Gope T. Samtani, who offered him a small role in a picture he was making about cannibals. Bertus took it, the picture--Primitif (1978)--became a hit and Samtani changed Bertus' name to Barry Prima. In his second film he played opposite renowned Indonesian star Suzzanna, as her husband who gets killed in the middle of the movie.

Prima soon became the biggest star in Indonesian films, making a string of action/fantasy films for various studios. He made several pictures with Eva Arnaz and was briefly married to her. Famously reclusive, and somewhat ornery, he seldom gives interviews and in the few he has given often contradicts himself (many interviewers suspect he does it deliberately); he once said that he never wanted to be an actor and never made a good movie because the scripts were always so bad and the budgets were always so low, but later in the same interview he said that he enjoyed making films and liked everyone he worked with.

After several years off the screen, he played a cameo (in drag!) in Upi Avianto's "Realita Cinta dan Rock 'n Roll" (2006).

Billy Chong was born on 10 February 1957 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. He is an actor and director, known for Duel: The Last Choice (2014), Dust in the Machine (1995) and Kung Fu Zombie (1981). He was previously married to Betharia Sonata.

Keisya Levronka was born on 2 February 2003 in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. She is an actress and composer, known for Jingga dan Senja (2021), Aku Jati, Aku Asperger (2024) and Five Friends (2024).

Dewi Perssik was born on 18 December 1985 in Jember, East Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for Paku Kuntilanak (2009), Arwah Kuntilanak Duyung (2011) and Setan Budeg (2009).

Suzzanna was born on 14 October 1942 in Buitenzorg, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies [now Bogor, West Java, Indonesia]. She was an actress, known for Samson and Delilah (1987), Tuan Tanah Kedawung (1971) and Sangkuriang (1982). She was married to Clift Sangra and Dicky Suprapto. She died on 15 October 2008 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Erika Carlina Batlawa Soekri (born 10 August 1993) is an Indonesian actress, model, internet celebrity, and entrepreneur.

Erika started her career in the Indonesian entertainment world as a fashion model. After that, she began to develop her career as an internet celebrity on the social media Instagram.

In 2018, she made her acting debut playing two roles, namely as Bianca and a ghost in the film Sakral (2018) produced by MD Pictures and Dee Company.

In 2021, she landed the role of Flora in her first web series entitled Turn On (2021) which aired on Vidio.

She is known as a friend of Awkarin who is also an internet celebrity.

Marty Rhone was born Karel Lawrence van Rhoon in Soerabaja, East Java, Dutch East Indies. He is a multi-award-winning actor and singer who has accumulated a distinguished six decade career on the stage, in television and on film. Marty's theatre credits include both West End London & Australian appearances in The King and I (LunTha) alongside Yul Brynner, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lisa McCune, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes. As the Kralahome in the Opera Australia production he was nominated for a Helpmann Award as Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in the original Sydney production of Godspell with John Waters and appeared with Jackie Weaver in God Save the Queen. He wrote the music for the Machiavellian farce La Mandragola and played the medieval storyteller and was on stage throughout . On television he was a regular cast member of No 96 and Class of 75 and more recently has appeared in American series Bull and Preacher as well as Harrow, Wentworth, Under the Milky Way and Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries. He has had lead roles in two internationally released films Rise and The Comet Kids. His ethnic diversity (Australian, Asian, Dutch, British heritage) and an ability with various accents, including several US dialects, has him in demand to play many nationalities: European, Asian and American. He is also an in-demand voice over artist and has worked both in Australia and the US in this capacity. As a vocalist and recording artist he has achieved 5 x #1 hits that has seen him perform in the UK, Asia and the US. He has performed for members of the British Royal family, the late Princess Grace of Monaco , the late King Hussein of Jordon and Queen Noor.

Tissa Biani Azzahra was born on 24 July 2002 in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for 3 Nafas Likas (2014), Ayat-Ayat Adinda (2015) and Warrior Awang and Master Tok Gajah (2024).

Anne Hayes was born on 25 February 1930 in Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) and Happy and Glorious (1952). She was previously married to Peter Sellers.

Xaviera Hollander was born on 15 June 1943 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Pleasure Is My Business (1975), The Happy Hooker (1975) and Transit (1992).

Roy Marten was born on 1 March 1952 in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia. He is an actor, known for The Raid 2 (2014), Dreams of Love (1994) and Dilema (2011).

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung was born on 11 August 1999 in Wonogiri, Central Java, Indonesia.

Ratno Timoer was born on 8 March 1942 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. He was an actor and director, known for Dendam manusia harimau (1981), Revenge of the Ninja (1984) and Jin Galunggung (1982). He was married to Tien Samatha. He died on 22 December 2002 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Hugo Van Lawick was born on 10 April 1937 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988), Jane (2017) and The Leopard Son (1996). He was married to Jane Goodall. He died on 2 June 2002 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Rein Edzard de Vries was born on 7 June 1942 in Madioen, Central Java, Netherlands East Indies. He was an actor, known for Medisch Centrum West (1988), Goudkust (1996) and Les loups entre eux (1985). He died on 4 January 2017.

Willem Nijholt was born on 19 July 1934 in Gombong, Kedoe, Dutch East Indies [now Gombong, Central Java, Indonesia]. He was an actor and director, known for Oebele (1968), Havinck (1987) and Rouw past Electra (1980). He died on 23 June 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Winky Wiryawan a.k.a Nurayendra Irwindo (born in Bandung, West Java, December 9, 1973) is an Indonesian actor. He is also known as a DJ (disc jockey) in Jakarta, by the name DJ Winky.

His involvement in entertainment began in commercials for Nescafe, Ponds, and Relaxa. He was later offered a role as Ferdy in The Uninvited (2001) starring Melanie Ariyanto and directed by Rizal Mantovani and Jose Purnomo.

He then played in a similar-genre movie, Titik Hitam (2002) directed by Sentot Sahid, who later introduced himself as director and producer Rudy Soedjarwo Leo Sutanto.

This opened up an opportunities for Winky in Singa Karawang Bekasi (2003), and Mengejar Matahari (2004). Thanks to the film Mengejar Matahari (2004), Winky won the category of Best Crying Scene MTV Indonesia Movie Awards (MIMA) 2004.

In 2006 may be practically a fortune year for Winky, he starred in four films a year, Ruang (2006), Berbagi Suami (2006), 6:30 (2006), and Americana (2006). In the same year, Winky was nominated Most Favorite Supporting Actor in MTV Indonesia movie award 2006 through the movie Berbagi Suami. the film is the same,Berbagi Suami managed to get the Golden Orchid award for Best Foreign Language film in Hawaii film Festival,United States.

In 2007, Winky cast in Surat Untuk Ayah (2007) with Wulan Guritno, and the remake movie Badai Pasti Berlalu (2007). In the movie Badai Pasti Berlalu ever built in the era-1970 (at that time directed by Teguh Karya), Winky play with Vino G. Bastian and Slamet Rahardjo,worked on by Teddy Soeriaatmadja. Winky act as Helmy, a character who was played an antagonistic character actor Slamet Rahardjo Djarot in the original version.

Winky is married to Asmara Siswandari a.k.a Kenes Andari, on October 1, 2004 at At-Taqwa mosque, South Jakarta. After the previous proposal ceremony done on July 17, 2004.

Dirk Sanders was born on 24 December 1933 in Buitenzorg, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies [now Bogor, West Java, Indonesia]. He was a director and actor, known for You Only Love Once (1968), Castle Keep (1969) and Ainsi font font font (1990). He was married to Annie Fargue and Karen Blanguernon. He died on 26 July 2002 in Paris, France.

Gerard Schurmann was born on 19 January 1924 in Kertosono, Kediri, Dutch East Indies [now Kertosono, East Java, Indonesia]. He was a composer, known for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Cross of Iron (1977) and Konga (1961). He died on 24 March 2020 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

Sita Nursanti was born on 27 August 1974 in Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for Sri Asih (2022), Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams (2024) and Melodrama.