Age: 41
female
Born on February 14, 1985, in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, Natalya Rudakova is best known for her "Cinderella story" discovery and her breakout role as Valentina in the action thriller Transporter 3 (2008). Growing up in post-Soviet Russia, she moved to New York City with her mother at age 17, where she began working as a hairdresser. Her life changed when she was spotted by legendary filmmaker Luc Besson while crossing a street; impressed by her striking red hair, blue eyes, and freckles, Besson invited her to audition and paid for her acting lessons. Following her debut alongside Jason Statham, Rudakova appeared in several independent films, including The One (2011), Waiting for a Train (2014), and the crime thriller DieRy (2020). While she maintains a private life, she has continued to balance occasional acting roles with her interests in fashion and photography, remaining a recognizable figure for her unique look and sudden rise to Hollywood fame.
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.
