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Lev Gorn (born 1971) is a Russian-born American actor and artist who has built a distinguished career in Western television by portraying high-stakes characters in political and espionage dramas. Born in Stavropol and having emigrated to the United States in 1981, he is widely recognized for his nuanced portrayal of the pragmatic KGB officer Arkady Ivanovich Zotov in the critically acclaimed series The Americans (2013–2018). His extensive filmography includes significant roles in prestige dramas such as The Wire, Homeland, and Madam Secretary, as well as his portrayal of Soviet Mars mission commander Grigory Kuznetsov in Apple TV+’s For All Mankind. In addition to his acting career, Gorn is an accomplished fine art photographer and director; through Lev Gorn Studio, he creates large-scale "photo-paintings" and is a sought-after headshot photographer in New York City, leveraging his dual perspective as both a performer and a visual artist.
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.
