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Yayan Ruhian was born in Tasikmalaya (West Java) on October 19, 1968. He found his passion in Pencak Silat and other martial arts, becoming a professional martial arts instructor. Ruhian is also known as an instructor of an inner breathing technique designed to condition of the body to withstand any impact. In 1988, he began teaching at Perguruan Silat Tenaga Dasar Indonesia (Inner Breathing Technique Silat School in Indonesia). During his term as an instructor he traveled regularly to teach in different cities and abroad.

Ruhian was a member of a demonstration team who performed at Festival des Arts Martiaux de Paris Bercy in Paris, France, while also participating at Institude Judo Paris in France to showcase Silek Minang (West Sumatra - Minang-style Silat.)

In 2008, Ruhian was hired as one of the choreographers for Merantau as a specialist in both Silat Harimau and Silat Minang. While casting the role of Eric, Gareth was unable to find an actor who would handle both the acting and fighting required for the role. Ruhian auditioned and won the co-starring role.

Lovely, slender, and sensual raven-haired knockout Laurette Marcia Gemser was born on October 5, 1950 in Java, Indonesia. In 1955 Gemser left Indonesia at age four and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. Laura grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht and attended Mulo Regentesseschool high school. She studied fashion design at the Artibus Art School in Utrecht. Gemser first gained public recognition with her nude modeling in various men's magazines in Belgium and the Netherlands. The exotic dark-haired beauty moved to Italy in the mid-1970's and made her film debut as Janine in the obscure Amore libero - Free Love (1974). However, it was Laura's small, but memorable role as a masseuse in Emmanuelle II (1975) that really launched her career in racy soft-core exploitation fare. Gemser achieved her greatest enduring international cult popularity with her incredibly erotic and uninhibited portrayals of the titular hedonistic and sexually adventurous globe-trotting photojournalist in the steamy "Black Emanuelle" series that were often directed by the notorious Joe D'Amato and frequently co-starred Gemser's real-life actor husband Gabriele Tinti. Other notable parts include charismatic cult leader the Divine One in Divine Emanuelle (1981), evil sorceress Indun in Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982), and compassionate mutant telepath Lilith in Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983). Outside of acting, Laura also worked on a handful of movies as a costume designer. Gemser quit the motion picture business in the early 1990's and still lives in Italy.

Fiona Mollison was born on 9 January 1954 in Java, East Indies. She is an actress, known for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Strangers (1978) and As Time Goes By (1992).

Suzzanna was born on 14 October 1942 in Buitenzorg, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies [now Bogor, West Java, Indonesia]. She was an actress, known for Samson and Delilah (1987), Tuan Tanah Kedawung (1971) and Ratu Sakti Calon Arang (1985). She was married to Clift Sangra and Dicky Suprapto. She died on 15 October 2008 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Ali Fikry is an Actor from Indonesia who play several movies, series & Soap Opera. He can act, sing, dance and do some martial art. Ali Fikry start his career on Indonesia's Got Talent in a dance group. Then he start to play in soap opera in 2015. He also play in some major movie in Indonesia. In 2021 he start play in soap opera title Kunanta Mendadak Santri in MNC as a lead. Ali also become a voice talent in Nussa movie.

Barry Prima (real name Bertus Knoch) was born in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. His father was a Dutch physician, his mother Indonesian. They had four children (three boys, one girl), with Bertus being the oldest. His sister graduated from Pajajaran University in Bandung with a medical degree and is a doctor, but Bertus only got his high school degree from Aloysius High School in Bandung.

He learned taekwando in a small martial-arts studio located behind his father's house on Jalan Dago (Dago street). The taekwando master at that time was known as Master Kang, from Malaysia. In his early 20s, Bertus came to the attention of Indonesian producer Gope T. Samtani, who offered him a small role in a picture he was making about cannibals. Bertus took it, the picture--Primitif (1978)--became a hit and Samtani changed Bertus' name to Barry Prima. In his second film he played opposite renowned Indonesian star Suzzanna, as her husband who gets killed in the middle of the movie.

Prima soon became the biggest star in Indonesian films, making a string of action/fantasy films for various studios. He made several pictures with Eva Arnaz and was briefly married to her. Famously reclusive, and somewhat ornery, he seldom gives interviews and in the few he has given often contradicts himself (many interviewers suspect he does it deliberately); he once said that he never wanted to be an actor and never made a good movie because the scripts were always so bad and the budgets were always so low, but later in the same interview he said that he enjoyed making films and liked everyone he worked with.

After several years off the screen, he played a cameo (in drag!) in Upi Avianto's "Realita Cinta dan Rock 'n Roll" (2006).

Tissa Biani Azzahra was born on 24 July 2002 in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for 3 Nafas Likas (2014), Ayat-Ayat Adinda (2015) and CinLock: Love, Camera, Action! (2023).

Erika Carlina Batlawa Soekri (born 10 August 1993) is an Indonesian actress, model, internet celebrity, and entrepreneur.

Erika started her career in the Indonesian entertainment world as a fashion model. After that, she began to develop her career as an internet celebrity on the social media Instagram.

In 2018, she made her acting debut playing two roles, namely as Bianca and a ghost in the film Sakral (2018) produced by MD Pictures and Dee Company.

In 2021, she landed the role of Flora in her first web series entitled Turn On (2021) which aired on Vidio.

She is known as a friend of Awkarin who is also an internet celebrity.

Wieteke van Dort was born on 16 May 1943 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. She was an actress and writer, known for De stratemakeropzeeshow (1972), J.J. de Bom voorheen: 'De kindervriend' (1979) and Oebele (1968). She was married to Theo Moody. She died on 15 July 2024 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.

Billy Chong was born on 10 February 1957 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. He is an actor and director, known for Duel: The Last Choice (2014), Dust in the Machine (1995) and Kung Fu Zombie (1981). He was previously married to Betharia Sonata.

Dewi Perssik was born on 18 December 1985 in Jember, East Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for Paku Kuntilanak (2009), Arwah Kuntilanak Duyung (2011) and Setan Budeg (2009).

Huib Broos was born on 29 August 1941 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. He was an actor, known for The Family (1973), Duel in de diepte (1979) and Wij Alexander (1998). He died on 11 September 2011 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Anne Hayes was born on 25 February 1930 in Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) and Happy and Glorious (1952). She was previously married to Peter Sellers.

Lulu Tobing was born on 21 November 1977 in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia. She is an actress, known for Two Blue Stripes (2019), The Unchangeables (2021) and I Wanna Kiss You Once (2002).

Bayu Eko Moektito, A.Md. known as Bayu Skak, is an Indonesian actor, YouTube personality, director, scriptwriter, comedian, and singer-songwriter of Javanese descent. He started his YouTube channel in 2009 which now has 3 million subscribers. Bayu also starred and directed with Fajar Nugros the Yowis Ben film series, which has produced four films and one web series from 2018 to 2021.

Nafa Urbach was born on 15 June 1980 in Magelang, Java, Indonesia. She is an actress and producer, known for Ashiap Man (2022), The Rage of Angel (1997) and Dust in the Machine (1995).

Dirk Sanders was born on 24 December 1933 in Buitenzorg, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies [now Bogor, West Java, Indonesia]. He was a director and actor, known for You Only Love Once (1968), Castle Keep (1969) and Ainsi font font font (1990). He was married to Annie Fargue and Karen Blanguernon. He died on 26 July 2002 in Paris, France.

Willem Nijholt was born on 19 July 1934 in Gombong, Kedoe, Dutch East Indies [now Gombong, Central Java, Indonesia]. He was an actor and director, known for Oebele (1968), Havinck (1987) and Rouw past Electra (1980). He died on 23 June 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Marty Rhone was born Karel Lawrence van Rhoon in Soerabaja, East Java, Dutch East Indies. He is a multi-award-winning actor and singer who has accumulated a distinguished six decade career on the stage, in television and on film. Marty's theatre credits include both West End London & Australian appearances in The King and I (LunTha) alongside Yul Brynner, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lisa McCune, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes. As the Kralahome in the Opera Australia production he was nominated for a Helpmann Award as Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in the original Sydney production of Godspell with John Waters and appeared with Jackie Weaver in God Save the Queen. He wrote the music for the Machiavellian farce La Mandragola and played the medieval storyteller and was on stage throughout . On television he was a regular cast member of No 96 and Class of 75 and more recently has appeared in American series Bull and Preacher as well as Harrow, Wentworth, Under the Milky Way and Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries. He has had lead roles in two internationally released films Rise and The Comet Kids. His ethnic diversity (Australian, Asian, Dutch, British heritage) and an ability with various accents, including several US dialects, has him in demand to play many nationalities: European, Asian and American. He is also an in-demand voice over artist and has worked both in Australia and the US in this capacity. As a vocalist and recording artist he has achieved 5 x #1 hits that has seen him perform in the UK, Asia and the US. He has performed for members of the British Royal family, the late Princess Grace of Monaco , the late King Hussein of Jordon and Queen Noor.

Hugo Van Lawick was born on 10 April 1937 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988), Jane (2017) and The Leopard Son (1996). He was married to Jane Goodall. He died on 2 June 2002 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Rigen Rakelna was born on 19 November 1991 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. He is an actor and producer, known for Satria Dewa: Gatotkaca (2022), GJLS: Berapi-Api (2026) and GJLS: Ibuku Ibu-Ibu (2025). He has been married to Indah Ningtyas since 2019. They have one child.

Epy Kusnandar was born on 1 May 1964 in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. He was an actor, known for V/H/S/2 (2013), The Night Comes for Us (2018) and The Raid 2 (2014). He was married to Karina Ranau. He died on 3 December 2025 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Xaviera De Vries was born on 15 June 1943 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Pleasure Is My Business (1975), The Happy Hooker (1975) and Transit (1992).

Egy Fedly was born on 11 September 1956 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. He is an actor, known for Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017), Headshot (2016) and Satan's Slaves (2017).