Richard Sandrak

Richard Sandrak, known as Little Hercules, is a Ukrainian-born American actor, martial artist and former bodybuilder, born on 15 April 1992 in a village in Ukraine. His father Pavel was a martial arts world champion and his mother Lena an aerobics competitor, and the family moved to Pennsylvania in 1994. He trained from a very young age and was promoted as the world's strongest boy, able at six to bench-press 180 pounds. He travelled to compete and promote nutrition products and appeared on television and radio. His acting debut was the title role in the 2009 film Little Hercules in 3D, and he was profiled in the documentary The World's Strongest Boy. In a 2015 interview he said he had quit bodybuilding out of boredom.