VIVANT Reveals Tyran's Younger Days, Viewers Suspect Actor's Own Photos
Episode 22 of VIVANT showed photos of information broker Tyran Grieva in his younger days, including childhood, on AI Hayato's monitor. The episode also gave his birth date as October 19, 1952, age 70, born in Syria with Turkish nationality.
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Reporting from 1 source: Magmix.
Why it matters
A single scene of on-screen biography did more for Tyran than his appearances have, giving the show's most elusive character a face the audience now reads as the actor's own.
Key Facts
- VIVANT episode 22 showed photos of information broker Tyran Grieva in his younger days on AI Hayato's monitor.
- The episode gave Tyran's birth date as October 19, 1952, age 70, born in Syria with Turkish nationality.
- Mirza Aghabayli plays Tyran, and the Azerbaijani site kinobiz lists him as born in August 1950 in Baku.
- Voice actor Norio Wakamoto handles Tyran's translator voice.
- AI Hayato is voiced by Minami Takayama.
Viewers reacted to how handsome the young Tyran looked. Magmix notes the photos are likely of Mirza Aghabayli, the actor who plays Tyran, listed on an Azerbaijani site as born in August 1950 in Baku.
The reveal came through AI Hayato, the Bessatsu supercomputer voiced by Minami Takayama, which pulled Tyran's record while Sakurai Satomi (Midoriko Kimura) listened. Alongside the birth date and nationality, the monitor displayed several photos of Tyran young, in large size.
What viewers fixated on was the face. Comments compared him to Charles Bronson, to Hiroshi Abe, to a beautiful boy, and several asked whether the production had simply borrowed old photos from the man playing him. Magmix's own reading is that they probably did: Mirza Aghabayli, listed on the Azerbaijani site kinobiz as born in August 1950 in Baku, began acting in the 1970s.
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