Julian Kostov

Bulgarian actor and filmmaker Julian Kostov started out with a guest part on 24: Live Another Day in 2014 and later appeared in Ben-Hur and London Has Fallen. He gained international attention in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021) as Fedyor Kaminsky and as the antagonist Vladimir Makarov in the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023). His films include Leatherface (2017), a horror, Another Mother's Son (2017), a World War II drama, The Last Front (2024), a war drama, and the action-comedy Fight or Flight (2025). In 2025 he made his West End debut in Till the Stars Come Down, becoming the first Bulgarian actor to appear in the West End. That year he also appeared in The White Lotus, whose drama ensemble earned a 2026 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He founded JupiterLights Media, co-founded Five Oceans, and produced Triumph, which was chosen as Bulgaria's entry for best international feature at the 97th Academy Awards.