Zeljko Ivanek
Zeljko Ivanek is a Yugoslavian-born actor who emigrated to the United States with his family when he was a child. Ivanek is a veteran of the stage, screen and television. He won a 2008 Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award for his role as Ray Fiske in Damages.1 In 2008, Ivanek joined Heroes for 10 episodes in the third season as a character called The Hunter.2
Fast Facts
- Born: August 15, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
- Graduated from Yale University
- Graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Notable television roles: Ray Fiske in Damages; Ed Danvers in Homicide: Life on the Street; Governor James Devlin in Oz]] and Andre Drazen in 24
- Notable: film roles: Dr. Cordell Doemling in Hannibal; Detective Dean in Unfaithful and Molina in Live Free or Die Hard
- Notable stage roles: Stanley Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs; John Ryder in Two Shakespearean Actors and Lt. Com. Philip Francis Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
- 1982: Won a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for "Cloud Nine"
- Has been nominated for a Tony Award three times
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