1 Timur Bekmambetov
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Famous As: Director
Birthdate: June 25, 1961
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
2 Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
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Famous As: Actress
Birthdate: January 20, 1963
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
3 Vsevolod Meyerhold
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Famous As: Theatre Director
Birthdate: February 9, 1874
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Penza, Russia
Died: February 2, 1940
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4 Sergei Bodrov
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Famous As: Film director, screenwriter, and producer
Birthdate: June 28, 1948
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Khabarovsk, Russia
5 Anatole Litvak
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Famous As: Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Birthdate: May 21, 1902
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Kiev, Russian Empire
Died: December 15, 1974
Anatole Litvak was a Russian-born American filmmaker. He was notable for bringing previously little-known actors to the spotlight and enabling them to win Academy Awards. French actors Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux and Swedish star Ingrid Bergman are among the ones he helped become internationally famous. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6633 Hollywood Blvd.
6 Natalie Burn
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Famous As: Film actress
Birthdate: 0000 AD
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
7 Fyodor Bondarchuk
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Famous As: Actor
Birthdate: May 9, 1967
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
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8 Aleksei Balabanov
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Famous As: Filmmaker
Birthdate: February 25, 1959
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Yekaterinburg, Russia
Died: May 18, 2013
9 Svetlana Ustinova
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Famous As: Actress, Producer, Writer
Birthdate: May 1, 1982
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Severodvinsk, Russia
10 Oleg Vidov
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Famous As: Actor
Birthdate: June 11, 1943
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vidnoye, Russia
Died: May 15, 2017
11 Pyotr Fyodorov
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Famous As: Actor, Producer
Birthdate: April 21, 1982
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
12 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
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Famous As: Screenwriter
Birthdate: September 10, 1894
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Sosnytsia, Ukraine
Died: November 25, 1956
13 Gregory Ratoff
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Famous As: Film Director
Birthdate: April 20, 1897
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Samara, Russia
Died: December 14, 1960
14 Alexander Nevsky
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Famous As: Actor, Writer
Birthdate: July 17, 1971
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
15 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
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Famous As: Theatre Director
Birthdate: December 23, 1858
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Ozurgety, Georgia
Died: April 25, 1943
16 Konstantin Ernst
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Famous As: Producer, Writer
Birthdate: February 6, 1961
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
17 Leila Sansour
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Famous As: Director
Birthdate: February 16, 1966
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Known for her 2003 feature film, Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army, Leila Sansour, is more than an acclaimed film director. Raised in Bethlehem as a Palestinian Roman Catholic, she is the founder of a NGO called Open Bethlehem, striving to protect her city's heritage. She documented the effect of the newly-built wall through her latest film, also called Open Bethlehem.
18 Georges Pitoëff
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Famous As: Director
Birthdate: September 4, 1884
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Tbilisi, Georgia
Died: September 17, 1939