Music and TV by Ukrainian Americans

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Music and TV by Ukrainian Americans

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Sylvester Stallone
• Date of birth: 6th July, 1946. New
York City, USA. His ancestors from
Odessa.
• Sylvester Stallone is an American
actor, screenwriter, producer, and
director.

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The most popular roles
John Rambo (Rambo)
Rocky Balboa (Rocky)
Barney Ross (The Expendables)

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Vera Farmiga
• Date of birth: 6th August, 1973.
Clifton, New Jersey, USA. Her
mother and father to Ukrainian
emigrants. She has a younger sister Taissa Farmiga (actress)
• Vera Farmiga is an American actress
and producer.

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The most popular
roles
• Daphne Handlova (15 Minutes)
• Caitlin (Roar)
• Kerrie (Return to Paradise)
• Norma Louise Bates (Bates Motel)

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Taissa Farmiga
• Date of birth: 17th August
1994. Readington, New
Jersey, USA. Mother and
father are Ukrainian
American. She has an older
sister - Vera Farmiga (actress).
• Taissa Farmiga is an American
actress.

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The most popular roles
• Violet Harmon (American Horror
Story: Murder House)
• Teenage Corinne (Higher Ground)
• Anna Greene (Mindscape )

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Milla Jovovich
• Date of birth: 17th Decembre 1975.
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
She immigrated with her parents to
the United States when she was
five.
• Milla Jovovich is an American
actress, model, musician, and
fashion designer.

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The most popular roles
• Leeloo (The Fifth
Element)
• Alice (Resident Evil)
• Nadya (Lucky
Trouble or
Vykrutasy)

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Kvitka Cisyk
• Date of birth: 4th April, 1953. Queens, New
York, USA. Cisyk was the daughter of two
Ukrainian immigrants
• Cisyk, a classically trained opera singer

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The most popular albums
"Songs of Ukraine" (1980)
«Two Colors» (1989)
You Light Up My Life (1977)

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Bob Dylan
• Date of birth: 24th May 1941.
Duluth, Minnesota, USA. His
paternal grandparents
emigrated from Odessa in the
Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
to the United States following
the anti-Semitic pogroms of
1905.
• Bob Dylan is an American
singer-songwriter, artist and
writer.

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The most popular albums
Bob Dylan (1962)
Infidels (1983)
Tempest (2013)

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Steven Tyler
• Date of birth: 26th March, 1948.
Manhattan, New York. He has Ukrainian
origin on the side of the mother.
• Best known as the lead singer of the
Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, multiinstrumentalist, and former television
music competition judge

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The best solo work
"I Love Trash" (1998)
"Love Lives (2010)
"(It) Feels So Good" (2011)

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