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Željko Ivanek

Born 1957-08-15
📍 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]

Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian-American actor. Known for his work in film, television, and theatre, he is the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as three Tony Award nominations.

Ivanek's film credits include Courage Under Fire (1996), Donnie Brasco (1997), Hannibal, Black Hawk Down (both 2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Bourne Legacy, Argo, Seven Psychopaths (all 2012), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). He has appeared in several films by Lars von Trier: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), and Manderlay (2005).

On television, Ivanek is known for playing Ray Fiske on the FX series Damages (2007–2010), for which he won the 2008 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He also appeared as Ed Danvers on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Russell Jackson on the CBS drama Madam Secretary (2014–2019), and has had recurring roles on series such as Oz (1997–2003), 24 (2002), True Blood (2008), Heroes (2009), Big Love (2009–2010), Banshee (2014), and 12 Monkeys (2015–2017). Since 2023, he has starred as "The Croat" on AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Filmography 104

The Walking Dead: Dead City
as The Croat
2023
Let the Right One In
as Arthur Logan
2022
Now and Then
as Sullivan
2022
The Last Duel
as Le Coq
2021
The Courier
as CIA Boss
2020
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Desk Sergeant
2017
X-Men: Apocalypse
as Pentagon Scientist
2016
12 Monkeys
as Leland Goines
2015
Madam Secretary
as Russell Jackson
2014
Legends
as Founding Father
2014
The Americans
as John Skeevers
2013
Banshee
as Jim Racine
2013
Seven Psychopaths
as Paolo
2012
Argo
as Robert Pender
2012
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
as Self
2012
The Mob Doctor
as Dr. Stafford White
2012
Revolution
as Calvin Horn
2012
The Words
as Joseph Cutler
2012
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Donald Foite
2012
Tower Heist
as Director Mazin
2011
Suits
as Eric Woodall
2011
The Event
as Blake Sterling
2010
White Collar
as Brett Forsythe
2009
The Mentalist
as Dr. Linus Wagner
2008
True Blood
as Magister
2008
John Adams
as John Dickinson
2008
In Bruges
as Canadian Guy
2008
Damages
as Ray Fiske
2007
Live Free or Die Hard
as Asst. Deputy Director Molina
2007
The Hoax
as Ralph Graves
2006
Heroes
as Emile Danko
2006
Shark
as Elliott Dasher
2006
Big Love
as JJ
2006
Bones
as Carl Decker
2005
The Inside
as Teddy Bunch
2005
Manderlay
as Dr. Hector
2005
Numb3rs
as William Fraley
2005
House
as Jason
2004
Lost
as Edmund Burke
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
as Vaughn Utly
2004
Dogville Confessions
as Self
2004
The Reagans
as Michael Deaver
2003
The Reagans
as Michael Deaver
2003
Cold Case
as John Doe
2003
Dogville
as Ben
2003
The Twilight Zone
as ER Chief
2002
Unfaithful
as Detective Dean
2002
Black Hawk Down
as LTC Gary Harrell
2001
24
as Andre Drazen
2001
Crossing Jordan
as Elliot McCafferty
2001
Hannibal
as Dr. Cordell Doemling
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Andrew Melton
2000
Dancer in the Dark
as District Attorney
2000
Homicide: The Movie
as Ed Danvers
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Mann Randolph
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Mann Randolph
2000
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Dr. Whitman
1999
The West Wing
as Steve Atwood
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Everett Drake
1999
Dash and Lilly
as Mel Berman
1999
A Civil Action
as Bill Crowley
1998
The Rat Pack
as Bobby Kennedy
1998
From the Earth to the Moon
as Ken Mattingly
1998
Ellen Foster
as Educational Psychologist
1997
Ally McBeal
as Judge Marshal Pink
1997
Julian Po
1997
Oz
as Governor James Devlin
1997
The Practice
as Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern
1997
The Practice
as U.S. Atty. Sanders
1997
The Practice
as Matthew Davies
1997
Donnie Brasco
as Tim Curley
1997
The Associate
as SEC Agent Thompkins
1996
Millennium
as Dr. Daniel 'Danny' Miller
1996
Infinity
as Bill Price
1996
Courage Under Fire
as Banacek
1996
White Squall
as Sanders
1996
Truman
as Eddie Jacobsen
1995
ER
as Bruce Resnick
1994
Chicago Hope
as Eugene Ramsey
1994
Frasier
as Arnold Shaw
1993
The X-Files
as Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Ed Danvers
1993
School Ties
as Mr. Cleary
1992
Our Sons
as Donald Barnes
1991
Aftermath: A Test of Love
as Matt
1991
Law & Order
as Richard Kaplan
1990
Law & Order
as Phillip Swann
1990
Law & Order
as Ed Danvers
1990
Law & Order
as Charles Banks
1990
Artificial Paradise
as Willy
1990
Rachel River
as Momo
1989
Echoes in the Darkness
as Vince Valaitis
1987
Echoes in the Darkness
as Vince Valaitis
1987
All My Sons
as George Deever
1987
L.A. Law
as Joel Lassen
1986
Mass Appeal
as Mark Dolson
1984
The Sun Also Rises
as Bill Gorton
1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Eddie Saunders
1984
Alice in Wonderland
as March Hare
1983
St. Elsewhere
as Mark Dolson
1982
The Sender
as John Doe #83
1982
Tex
as Hitchhiker
1982
The Soldier
as Bombmaker / Faux-Cleaning Lady
1982
Great Performances
as March Hare
1971