Algis Iozasovich Arlauskas Pinedo (Russian: Альгис Иозасович Арлаускас; born 7 August 1957) is a Russian-Spanish actor, director and theater teacher.

His father, Ionas Mikolasovich Arlauskas (born in 1920), was a leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party and was condemned to work camps and his mother an evacuee from Bilbao (Basque Country) following the Spanish Civil War in 1937 (these evacuees are known as "war children").

[2] In 1978 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute (Higher School of Drama attached to the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow), and in 1987 he graduated from the Film Directing faculty of the State Institute of Cinematography – VGIK (workshop of A. Kochetkov).

In 1991, as a returnee, he arrived in Bilbao with his former wife, the actress Marina Shimanskaya, and their 2 children to make a series of documentaries on the Children of the Spanish Civil War entitled Living and Dying in Russia, and after offering him several projects as a director, he remained to reside in the Biscayan capital.

He has worked as an actor, director and screenwriter in various film and television projects in the Basque Country and Spain.