Meet The White Lotus star Arnas Fedaravicius: the Lithuanian actor plays a yoga instructor in the new season and previously appeared in historical series The Last Kingdom
Best known for his role as Sihtric in historical-fiction TV series The Last Kingdom, actor Arnas Fedaravicius has seamlessly slipped out of his Viking garb and into modern athleisure for his role as flirty Russian yogi Valentin in the third season of The White Lotus.
Arnas Fedaravicius as Russian yoga instructor Valentin in The White Lotus. Photo: @arnasfederman/Instagram
This season of the hit show takes viewers to Thailand, where guests checked into The White Lotus include a trio of middle-aged girlfriends (Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb and Carrie Coon), a May-December, age-difference couple (
Walter Goggins and
Aimee Lou Wood ) and a family of five on the verge of incest (Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola).
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Fedaravicius is joined on the staff of the luxury resort by
Blackpink's Lisa , Tayme Thapthimthong and Natasha Rothwell.
Here's what you need to know about Arnas Fedaravicius.
He is Lithuanian
Lithuanian actor Arnas Fedaravicius, starring in season three of The White Lotus. Photo: @arnasfederman/Instagram
In The White Lotus, Fedaravicius' character Valentin is Russian and
stuck in Thailand , unable to return home owing to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The actor, however, hails from Lithuania and attended the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre from 2012 to 2013.
It seems Fedaravicius gets his dashing looks from his mother, a former Miss Lithuania according to Grazia Daily.
He's a trained stuntman
Arnas Fedaravicius trained as a film and TV stuntman. Photo: @arnasfederman/Instagram
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