Age: 36
female
Born on September 5, 1989, in Kaliningrad, Russia, Anastasiya Valeryevna Stezhko is a versatile Russian actress and model who has become a prominent fixture in contemporary Russian television and cinema. Before her acting career took off, she spent nine years playing competitive volleyball for the "Dynamo" team in her hometown, a background she credits for her professional discipline. She later moved to Moscow to study acting at the prestigious Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 2013 from the workshop of Vladimir Grammatikov. Stezhko gained widespread recognition for her roles in popular series such as the supernatural drama Angel or Demon, the comedy How I Became Russian, and the sports drama Beryozka, where she played a prima dancer. With a filmography spanning over 30 projects, including a brief appearance in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated Loveless and a starring role in the detective series Neizvestnyy, she continues to be a sought-after talent in both romantic and dramatic genres.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
