A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Laurence Possa
Birthplace:
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Born:
March 14, 1959
Laurentiu Possa is a world-wide known artist best loved for his role as Guzmin, in 'Modern Love' (2019) - When the Doorman IS Your Main Man with Cristin Milioti. As Vladimir in 'Killing Eve' (2018) he gave a compelling performance alongside Sarah Oh, Fiona Shaw and Kim Bodnia. Still with his first manager, Suzann Wade, Laurentiu being a linguist has played a myriad of roles, like Russian cop (2007) in Bourne Ultimatum, and a Chechen dissident for BBC Radio 4 in Forty Three, Fifty Nine (2009), the doppelgänger role utilising his Romanian and Spanish language skills (playing Rene and The Spanish Ambassador in Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows (2011)). Fluent in Latin, he enjoys perfecting his Portuguese, Italian, French (as Octavian in Extraordinary Rendition (2007)), Romany and Serbian languages as well as his American accent. In Gaming, Laurentiu is best known for: Total War: Attila - The Black Horse (2013), GoldenEye (2010) and James Bond 007 - Blood Stone (2010). He is a keen gardener, health enthusiast and nothing is too good for his little Gracey - his beloved wide eyed cat.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.