Age: 64
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Misha Kuznetsov (born August 14, 1961) is a versatile Russian-born American actor known for his commanding screen presence and his ability to portray complex, often formidable characters in major Hollywood productions. He first gained significant recognition for his role as the intense and unpredictable Nikolai in the high-octane action film Crank (2006), starring alongside Jason Statham. Kuznetsov has since built a robust career as a character actor, specializing in high-stakes thrillers and dramas. His notable filmography includes roles in the espionage thriller Salt (2010), the action film The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), and the Netflix series Stranger Things (2022), where he played the pivotal and intimidating role of Ivan, a guard at the Kamchatka prison.
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.
