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Costa Ronin (born February 3, 1979) is a Russian-born Australian actor and cinematographer, widely recognized for his authoritative portrayals of complex intelligence officers and political figures in major Western television dramas. Born in Kaliningrad and later educated in New Zealand and Australia, he achieved his international breakthrough as Oleg Burov in the critically acclaimed Cold War saga The Americans (2014–2018). He further solidified his reputation as a master of the espionage genre with his role as Yevgeny Gromov in the final seasons of Homeland and as a regular in the heist thriller The Endgame. His film credits include a notable appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the sci-fi thriller I.S.S. By late 2025, Ronin has joined the main cast of Apple TV+’s alternate-history epic For All Mankind for its fifth season, portraying Lenya, a Soviet politician and former cosmonaut, while also appearing in the second season of the action thriller The Terminal List.
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.
