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Artem Ansheles, is a Hong Kong Actor and TV Host. Born in Petropalovsk Kamchatsky, known for his strong social media presence as well as being a host and an actor on free TV channel ViuTV.

Migrated to Hong Kong at age of 17 for studies ,during which he discovered an opportunity to enter modeling business. After being a full time model for over a year, he has decided to enroll into Cantonese courses to further expand his opportunities. Mostly known for his fluent Cantonese and an image of a “sweet guy” that he applies in ViuTV’s show «Girl's Talk» as well as recent appearances on drama series.

Biography
Artem Ansheles was born on a semi island of Russia Petropalovsk Kamchatsky and moved to Cyprus with his family when he was 10 years old.

As a child his favorite movies included Stephen Chow’s "Shaolin Soccer " and Chow Yun-fat’s "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" which has further developed already existing curiosity and admiration towards Chinese culture.

Influenced by his architect father, Ansheles Artem has been interested in design from a very early age. After graduating from Cyprus Academy of Art, he applied into his dream university, Central Saint Martins located in London , but shortly after applying decided to go to Asia instead.

Originally having explore opportunity to move to Beijing, Artem Ansheles realised that lack of knowledge of Chinese culture and mandarin would make the stay difficult and instead decided to move to a more international place, Hong Kong.

Career
In 2012 Artem ansheles has began his design studies and after two years was forced to quit due to difficulties, leading to his start of a modeling career. After working as a full time model for over a year, he decided to enroll into Cantonese Courses to expand his market.

In 2016 Artem Ansheles made his debut as a TV host for a kids program “«Joyous alliance» that aired on Hong Kong’s free channel ViuTV.

In 2017 he became a host on yet another show «Girl’s Talk» from which he quickly gained popularity as a “sweet guy” who speaks Cantonese, and was given a title of “fresh Russian meat”. Airing every Monday to Friday the talk show is focused on female audience and includes other hosts such as Scarlett Wong, Bonde Sham and Hailey Chan.

In 2017 Artem Ansheles was invited to take a role of a Ukrainian dancer in drama series “Lost in Shell” which will air in the first quarter of 2018.

Parallel to being a TV host ,Artem Ansheles also filmed and shared videos about his life in Hong Kong on social media, with his most popular video “Ansheles and mom try Chinese herbal tea” in which he and his mother try traditional Chinese herbal tea ,which has been viewed over a million times.

Other popular videos include : “mcDull” which also Inviting his friend to try traditional Chinese snake wine in a video 'Ansheles give friend try alcohol'

His positive image has attracted collaborations from top brands such as' Samsung Galaxy, M&M's, Asia Miles, Tedx, Hong Kong Jockey Club, HKTDC, UNESCO.

Languages
Due to studying in international school in Cyprus Artem ansheles is able to speak fluent English as well as some Greek.