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Actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, X-Factor and Dancing With The Stars Winner, car wreck and massive stroke survivor, Alex's credits are nothing short of mind-blowing. Having over 30 European films under his belt, Alex also stars in the third and forth season of popular American series UnREAL on Lifetime Channel, and Netflix show Space Force on the side of Steve Carell and John Malkovich.

The global rising star that is Alex Sparrow, is on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory of success and earth staggering talent.

It's a a rare find in the entertainment business to see one individual not only engage in, but conquer, a plethora of fields - actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, arranger.

Born in Russia and raised in the family of Austrian Baron Alexis von Gecmen-Waldek, Sparrow's early training included Moscow Jazz College, followed by Moscow Art Theatre Studio School (MHAT).

Showing the young generation that a healthy lifestyle and positive mental attitude is a recipe for success, in 2007 Alex was appointed Good Will Ambassador to the United Nations for all Anti-AIDS Programs under jurisdiction of U.N.F.P.A.

His dedication to his all round craft saw him add 'professional stuntman' to his name through his study at Mosfilm Studios. Already a multi-instrumentalist and skilled in dancing in a myriad of styles, Alex was committed to further development and excellence in the film world. In his new home of L.A, he completed both Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop and studied at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio.

Truckloads of natural ability fostered with endless hard work certainly paid off. Amongst some of his most impressive mainstream achievements, Sparrow's respective wins of "X-factor', 'Dancing with the Stars', and twice Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards as 'Favourite Actor' surely put him in a stand out category of his own.

And if that wasn't enough, his music video "She's Crazy But She's Mine" (written, performed, directed and starring Alex himself) quickly going viral across the globe, now boasts more then 980 million views on Facebook, and 302 million plus on YouTube.

Perhaps it's this gifted Eastern European's accomplishments in film that have earned him the most critical acclaim. A three-time 'Best Score Award' winner and several acting gongs, Alex composed the music for the European co-produced film "The House of Others", a multiple award winning post-war drama that was a Georgian Oscars and Golden Globe entry in 2017, also receiving the most prestigious US Spotlight Award and Satellite Award.

Just beginning to take his first steps on the way to his International career he got into an accident, leaving the left side of his body paralyzed. During a year and a half of rehabilitation, he had to work hard to get his life back, and had to learn many things like singing from scratch again. While the doctors were saying that it's very unlikely he would ever be able to continue with acting and show business, Alex was trying to find a new place behind the camera as a director and screenwriter. In 2013, the moment he was able to work again, he made his first short movie, called "DAD"- as screenwriter, director, editor and composer, and gets with it numerous Awards on International Film Festivals. Alex has made it - today he is back on stage, proving the doctors wrong. With that fierce imagination, anything-is-possible attitude and boundless capabilities to turn captivating ideas into reality on any medium, there's no telling what Alex Sparrow will do next.

Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov was born in Tula, to Natalia, a puppet theatre director, and Lev Mashkov, an actor. He worked for Oleg Tabakov's theatre where he performed in Alexander Galich's "My Big Land", Neil Simon's "Biloxy Blues", Nickolai Gogol's "The Inspector General", Jean-Batiste Moliere's "Don Juan", and other plays. As a director, he staged "A Star Hour By Local Time", "Passions For Bumbarash", "The Death-Defying Act" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera".

Alex Ozerov is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mischa on The Americans. Ozerov was born in Tula, Russia and migrated to Toronto at the age of 13. Shortly after, he got an interest in acting and studied with actor/director Walter Alza. Alex made his feature film debut in Jason Buxton's award-winning film Blackbird, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. He can now be seen as Oliver Sokolov on the Netflix original, Another Life.

The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, whose "Method" she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and, upon their return to Moscow, defected to the US to become a dominant Broadway actress for more than a decade until she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York in 1929. It was to help keep the school funded that she accepted her first Hollywod film, Dodsworth (1936). She had appeared in six silent movies in Russia earlier in her career. This lucrative association, for Ouspenskaya, Hollywood and the viewing public, would last for more than a dozen years and two dozen films. Thanks to her often-superior demeanor and addiction to astrology, she could prove maddening on the set. She remained in nearly daily communication with L.A. Times' astrologer Carroll Righter who would advise her on the best times to appear on camera along with when and where to travel. As a consequence, most casts and crews disliked the over-bearing, wispy 90-pound actress intensely. She bounced between prestigious A-pictures (Love Affair (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940)) and B-movies (Mystery of Marie Roget (1942), Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)), performing, and behaving, with equal intensity. She is especially notable for having appeared in the last great Universal horror entry, The Wolf Man (1941) and the interesting Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). A heavy smoker, she fell asleep in bed with a lit cigarette in late November 1949 and suffered massive burns. She died of a stroke in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital three days later.

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and relatives.

Leo Tolstoy studied languages and law at Kazan University for three years. He was dissatisfied with the school and left Kazan without a degree, returned to his estate and educated himself independently. In 1848 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, and there passed two tests for a law degree. He was abruptly called to return to his estate near Moscow, where he inherited 4000 acres of land and 350 serfs. There Tolstoy built a school for his serfs, and acted as a teacher. He briefly went to a Medical School in Moscow, but lost a fortune in gambling, and was pulled out by his brother. He took military training, became an Army officer, and moved to the Caucasus, where he lived a simple life for three years with Cossacs. There he wrote his first novel - "Childhood" (1852), it became a success. With writing "Boyhood" (1854) and "Youth" (1857) he concluded the autobiographical trilogy. In the Crimean War (1854-55) Tolstoy served as artillery commander in the Battle of Sevastopol, and was decorated for his courage. Between the battles he wrote three stories titled "Sevastopol Sketches", that won him wide attention, and a complement from the Czar Aleksandr II.

After the war, Tolstoy returned to St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed the friendship of Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, and other writers. On his trips to Europe, he had discussions with Gertsen in London, and attended Darwin's lectures. In Brussels he had meetings with philosophers Prudhon and Lelewel. Tolstoy undertook a research of schools in Europe, and later he built and organized over 20 schools for poor people in Russia. At that time the secret police began surveillance, and searched his home. In 1862 he married Sofia Andreevna Bers, and fathered 13 children with his wife. Four of their babies died, and the couple raised the remaining nine children. His wife was also his literary secretary, and also contributed to his best works, "War and Peace" (1863-69) and "Anna Karenina" (1873-77). In his "Confession" (1879) Tolstoy revealed his own version of Christianity, blended with socialism, that won him many followers. Tolstoyan communities sprang up in America and Europe, and he assisted the Russian non-Orthodox Christians (Dukhobors) in migrating to USA and Canada. He split from aristocratic class and developed an ascetic lifestyle, becoming a vegetarian, and a farmer. He sponsored and organized free meals for the poor. He transfered his copyright on all of his writings after 1880 to public domain. In his later age Tolstoy was pursuing the path of a wandering ascetic. He corresponded with Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was directly influenced by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" (1894), which was praised by many nonviolent movements.

In 1900 Tolstoy criticized the Tsar's government in a series of publications, calling for separation of Chuch and State. Tsar Nicholas II retaliated through the Church, by expulsion of Tolstoy from Orthodox Cristianity as a "heretic". He fell ill, and suffered from a severe depression; he was suicidal and even had to eliminate all hunting guns from his home, because of his suicidal mode. He was treated by the famous doctor Dahl, and was visited by composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr., who performed for Tolstoy on many occasions. Later he went to convalesce in Yalta, in Crimea, where he spent time with Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. Tolstoy was an obvious candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but was initially omitted by the Nobel Committee for his views. The omission caused a strong response from a group of Swedish writers and artists. They sent an address to Tolstoy, but the writer answered by declining any future prize nomination.

In 1902 Tolstoy wrote a letter to the Tsar, calling for social justice, to prevent a civil war, and in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Tolstoy wrote a condemnation of war. The Tsar replied by increasing police surveillance on Tolstoy. In November of 1910 he left his estate, probably taking the path of a wandering ascetic, which he had been pursuing for decades. He left home without explanations and took a train, in which he caught pneumonia, and died at a remote station of Astapovo. He was laid to rest in his estate of Yasnaya Polyana, which was made a Tolstoy National Museum.

His youngest daughter, named Alexandra Tolstoy, was the director of the Tolstoy Museum, and was arrested by the Communists five times. She emigrated from Russia to the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She helped many prominent Russian intellectuals, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff among many others.

Ilya Aksyonov was born on 1 May 1989 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is a director and actor, known for KVN-ers (2018), Pobud so mnoy and Na kray sveta (2019). He is married to Anastasiya Reznik.

Sergey Stolyarov was born on 1 November 1911 in village Bezzubovo, Venyov uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Serebryano-Prudsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Far from Moscow (1950), Sadko (1953) and The Sword and the Dragon (1956). He died on 9 December 1969 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].

Vyacheslav Nevinny was a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).

He was born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny on November 30, 1934, in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union (now Tula, Russia). Young Nevinny was fond of theatre, he was active in amateur drama club at Palace of Pioneers in Tula, and made his stage debut with Tula Theatre. From 1955 - 1959 he studied acting under Viktor Stanitsyn at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1959 as an actor. In 1960 he made his film debut in Ispytatelnyy srok (1960) by director Vladimir Gerasimov.

From 1959-2009 Vyacheslav Nevinny was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Iya Savvina, Nina Gulyaeva, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Irina Miroshnichenko, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksei Agapov, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. His best known stage appearances include his roles in such classic plays as Nikolay Gogol's Revizor (aka.. Inspector-General) and in Anton Chekhov's plays: Ivanov, Chaika (aka.. The Seagull), Dyadya Vanya (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and Vishnevy sad (aka.. The Cherry Orchard).

Vyacheslav Nevinny was designated People's Actor of the USSR, and received a congratulatory note from the Russian president. He was suffering from diabetes with complications causing him amputation of both legs. However, Nevinny was supported by his family as well as by his fellow actors, such as Aleksandr Kalyagin and Sergey Yurskiy among many others. Nevinny was married to actress Nina Gulyaeva, their son, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy is also an actor at Moscow Art Theatre.

He died at his home in Moscow on May 31, 2009, of complications related to diabetes, and was laid to rest in Troekurovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.

Michael Khmurov was born on 26 February 1966 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Fracture (2007), Lektor (2011) and Odna voyna (2009). He is married to Elena Semyonova-Khmurova. They have two children.

Lyudmila Davydova was born on 29 March 1939 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) and Heavenly Swallows (1976). She was married to Andrey Ladynin and Valeriy Uskov. She died on 25 December 1996 in Moscow, Russia.

Blas García was born on 26 May 1942 in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Kung Fu Panda (2008), La casa al final de la calle (1989) and Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976).

Vsevolod Sanaev was born on 25 February 1912 in Tula, Tula uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Assassination Attempt (1981), Eolomea (1972) and Volga - Volga (1938). He died on 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia.

Leonid Mozgovoy was born on 17 April 1941 in Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Taurus (2001), Moloch (1999) and Last Love (2017).

Vera Petrova was born on 9 August 1927 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Sudba barabanshchika (1956), A Cruel Romance (1984) and Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968). She was married to Yuriy Sarantsev. She died on 16 December 2001 in Moscow, Russia.

Stanislav Shmelev was born on 1 August 1988 in Tula, Russia. He is an actor and editor, known for Dikiy (2009), Taksi pod prikrytiem (2023) and Provokator (2016).

Nikolay Shrayber was born on 6 October 1982 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Zakryt geshtalt (2022), Podrostki v kosmose (2024) and Malvina.

Ilya Lvovich ("son of Leo") Tolstoy was the 3rd child of the world-famous Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), from the latter's 48-year marriage to Sonya Behrs, a marriage which produced 13 children in all. Although 5 of the Tolstoys' children died at birth or in infancy, the other 8 (including Ilya) survived to adulthood, and had careers which took them in many different directions. Ilya worked as a journalist, migrated to the USA in 1918 (around the time of the Russian Revolution), and had a motley career in the States. He did some journalism, including writings about his famous father in Russia, and served as a consultant on a few Hollywood films with Russian themes, including "Resurrection" and "Love" (1927). In one film Ilya Tolstoy even appeared briefly playing the role of his own father Leo Tolstoy. He died in poverty in a New York hospital in 1933. Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy's children were: Anna (1888- ), Mikhail (1893-1919), Andrei (1895-1920), Ilya Jr. (1896- ), and Vera (1898- ).

Valentin Bryleev was born on 1 May 1926 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Carnival Night (1956) and V kvadrate 45 (1956). He was married to Galina Bryleeva. He died on 18 December 2004 in Moscow, Russia.

Sergey Chonishvili was born on August 3, 1965 in the city of Tula in a family of actors. Father - Nozheri Davidovich Chonishvili - Artist of the USSR. His name was given to an establishment dedicated to actors in Omsk (Siberia). Sergey's Mother - Prokop Valeria Ivanovna, People's Artist of Russia. In 1986 he graduated from the Shukshin's Theater School with honors and was accepted into the troupe of the theater Lenin Komsomol - Moscow theater "Lenkom". After the release of the country's extremely popular TV series "St. Petersburg secrets," Sergei has attracted a lot of attention on the part of moviegoers. In 2000, Sergey has released his debut took book - "Minor changes". In 2003 he published a second book,"The Train Man."

Since 2010, engaged in the performance of Theatre of Nations "The Gronholm Method" by Jordi Galceran Ferrer. Sergey's role brought him enormous popularity and brought him People's vote for Best Male Actor.

Since 2011, played in productions of Chekhov Moscow Art "Event", "Witness for the Prosecution", "An Ideal Husband"

Sergei Nozherievich Chonishvili - the most attractive and sought after male voice of modern Russian television. Sergey is official voice of the channel CTC.

Valentin Mishatkin was born on 7 December 1946 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Come and See (1985), Vstretimsya na Taiti (1991) and Zaliv schastya (1987). He died on 7 May 2012.

Antonina Maksimova was born on 7 November 1916 in Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Othello (1956), Ballad of a Soldier (1959) and Mayakovsky itskeboda ase... (1958). She died on 4 October 1986 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].

Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy (Aleksandra Tolstaya) was the youngest daughter of the famous Russian writer Count Lev Tolstoy. She was born in 1884, in Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral estate of the Tolstoy family. Her mother, named Sofia Andreevna Bers, was the literary secretary for Leo Tolstoy, and made Alexandra an assistant to her writer father. Alexandra managed most of the secretarial work for Leo Tolstoy during his later years. She became the keeper of the Tolstoy archive after the writer's death in 1910.

Alexandra shared the "Tolstoyan" ideas and was the follower her father's position of non-violence, but she felt a duty call at the beginning of the First World War. She participated in action by helping the wounded, and became one of the leading organizers of hospitals for the wounded soldiers. Alexandra Tolstoy was decorated for her courage with three Medals of the Order of St. George, rising to the rank of Colonel.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was arrested five times by the Communists. She was sentenced for supporting the right of free speech and assembly. After release she worked as a keeper of her father's estate in Yasnaya Polyana, which was turned into a Tolstoy's National Museum. She left Russia in 1929, and settled in the United States. There she co-founded the Tolstoy Foundation in 1939, with the sponsorship from such prominent intellectuals as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Tatiana Schaufuss, Boris Bakhmeteff, and Boris Sergievsky. Former President Herbert Hoover became the first Honorary Chairman from 1939-1964.

Under the leadership of Alexandra Tolstoy, the Tolstoy Foundation assisted more than 500,000 people to escape from political persecution and the horrors of war. In 1948, she testified before the government on behalf of the Displaced Persons Act and was instrumental in its passage. In 1941, on a generous private donation the Tolstoy Foundation acquired Reed Farm north of New York City. She provided the 70-acre Farm for a resettlement center for over 30,000 refugees directly sponsored by the Foundation during the Second World War and after. She organized English classes and occupational therapy for the immigrants, as well, as a summer camp for needy children.

Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was known for her remarkable calmness and dignity. She died in 1979, at age 96, and was laid to rest in the Russian cemetery of Spring Valley, New York, USA.

Dmitry Litvinov is a film distributor, producer, publisher, CEO of Planeta Inform Communication Group. Planeta Inform Communication Group was established in 2009. Company is specializing in digital and television distribution of movie catalogs and the sale of Russian film content abroad. Among the headliners: «Guardians», «Metro», «Icebreaker», «30 dates». Dmitry is a producer of successful international projects «The Bride» and «Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass». «The Bride» was released on Netflix, and also have gained huge success in the countries of South-East Asia and Latin America. Project remake rights sold to the Global Gate. He also publishes several popular film industry magazines "Bulletin of Film Distributor" and "Cinema Mechanic Today". In 2014, together with partners, he produced and launched the highest-rated weekly movie program on TV «Such a Movie». And in the same year, Dmitry joined the Expert Council of Cinema Foundation of Russia.

Evgeniya Osipova was born on 24 May 1986 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Zakrytaya shkola (2011), Realnyy papa (2008) and Ikona sezona (2013). She was previously married to Anatoliy Simchenko.

Fyodor Odinokov was born on 17 February 1913 in Voskresenskoye, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Pugachev (1979), Ten Little Indians (1987) and Kto, esli ne ty... (1974). He died on 19 February 1994.