Jon Morrison
Jon Morrison is a Scottish actor who has appeared in many plays, films and television series since the early 1970s, including" The BillBergeracTaggart" and" Vera".
His best- known parts have been in the Peter McDougall plays" Just Another Saturday"( 1975), about sectarianism in Glasgow, and" The Elephants' Graveyard"( 1976), both with Billy Connolly and both part of BBC's" Play for Today" series.
He also featured in Gary Oldman's" Nil by Mouth"( 1997).
Morrison has portrayed DC Kenny Lockhart on the ITV detective series" Vera", from the start of the program in 2011 to series 9 in 2019.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Nikolay Kolyada
Nikolay Vladimirovich Kolyada (also transliterated as Nikolai Koliada) is a Russian actor, director, writer, playwright, and playwriting teacher.
Theatre critic John Freedman names Kolyada as one of several dramatists and directors who might be designated as "fathers" or "mothers" of Russia's contemporary theatre movement.
(Other contenders mentioned are Aleksei Kazantsev, Elena Gremina, Nadezhda Ptushkina, and Ol’ga Mukhina).
The "New York Times" said that Kolyada's work has made a Yekaterinburg a "center of modern drama.
" Kolyada is one of the first Russian playwrights to address homosexuality in his work, especially in "Slingshot".
Tom Mathisen
Tom Mathisen( born 14 August 1952) is a Norwegian comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician.
He usually handles bass, guitar and vocals.
He was in the comedy group Prima Vera from 1976 to 1983 along with Jahn Teigen and Herodes Falsk.
Later he continued to work with Herodes Falsk on many TV shows and records.
He is also known as" Fortelleren"( The Narrator) in the Brødrene Dal series.
Lisa Hammond (actress)
Lisa Hammond( born 3 June 1978) is an English actress, known for her roles as Donna Yates in" EastEnders" and as Tina in" Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere".
In 2005, she had a minor role in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens'" Bleak House".
In 2011, she appeared in the first series of" Psychoville".
She also appeared in 8 episodes of the British Crime Drama Vera, from 2015- 2017.
Of Freaks and Men
Of Freaks and Men is a 1998 Russian film directed by Aleksei Balabanov.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Vassily Balabanov
Vassily Vassilievich Balabanov( January 30, 1873 in Bakhmut, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – January 27, 1947 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was an administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia.
Vassily( also Vasile Vasilivich) Balabanov was the third of five children of Vassily Stephanovich Balabanov and Maria Muravskaya.
Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov( 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who shot mostly arthouse pictures but gained mainstream popularity with the crime drama" Brother"( 1997) and its more action- oriented sequel," Brother 2"( 2000), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. as Danila Bagrov.
" Brother" was successful both at the box office and in video copies, achieving wide popularity in Russia.
Later, however, Balabanov became better known for his films" Cargo 200"( 2007) and" Morphine"( 2008).
A hugely controversial figure, Balabanov was often accused of both Russian nationalism"( Brother 2, War)" and Russophobia"( Cargo 200, The Stoker)", as well as general misanthropy.
Due to his personal and political controversy, grotesque style, dark humour, shocking naturalism, genre deconstruction, and balancing between art cinema and mainstream he was often compared to Lars von Trier, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Coen brothers, and Takeshi Kitano.
Fernando Vera
Fernando Vera( born 4 February 1954) is a Chilean former cyclist.
He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Question: Are Aleksei Balabanov and Fernando Vera from the same country?
Answer: no