Costa Ronin

Konstantin “Costa” Ronin (Russian: Константин Ронин; born 3 February 1979) is a Russian-born New Zealand actor and cinematographer, best known for appearances in Red Dog, as Gregorovich on the SBS drama East West 101, as Oleg Igorevich Burov in the FX drama The Americans and as Yevgeny Gromov on Homeland.

Costa Ronin was born in Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia).[2] He spent the first 18 years of his life in Russia.[3] In his youth, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand with his mother and studied international relations and political science at Victoria University, before moving to Perth, Australia for further tertiary education[2] and, later, to Sydney.[4][5]

At the age of 15, Ronin commenced working and learned about American culture at a radio station that taught English through music.