A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Zheka Fatbelly
Жеңіс Омаров
Birthplace:
Taraz, Kazakhstan
Born:
May 8, 1997
Zhenis Omarov was born in Taraz, Zhambyl Region, and studied at School No. 24 before continuing his education at Tole Bi Gymnasium No. 8. Later, he moved to Almaty, where he played for a KVN team for some time. In Almaty, he studied at the University of Management. Omarov gained popularity through his comedic video clips on Instagram, amassing over 3.2 million followers on his page by 2016. He is considered one of Kazakhstan's most popular bloggers. Since 2016, he has started acting in films. He appeared in Akan Satayev’s *Alangdar* (2016), Askar Bisembin’s *Nauryz* (2017), Edil Amandyk’s *Diary of Smart Women* (2019), and *Q-Jeri* (2019). Since 2018, he has recorded several rap and hip-hop songs, including *F.A.T.*, *Bud' so mnoy*, *Razdevaysya*, *Vkusnaya*, *Povelasy*, *Geteroseksual*, *Supruga i suprug*, *Ne naydu*, and *Magiya*. He also appeared in the music video for the song *Shymkenttegi kyzdary zyn*. In September 2016, Omarov launched his own restaurant chain in Almaty. By mid-2019, he had opened more than 20 restaurants across Kazakhstan.
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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.