Željko Ivanek
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 15, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
Biography
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.
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Filmography
The Walking Dead: Dead City
TV · as The Croat · 15 eps
Now and Then
TV · as Sullivan · 8 eps
Let the Right One In
TV · as Arthur Logan · 5 eps
The Last Duel
Movie · as Le Coq
The Courier
Movie · as CIA Boss
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Movie · as Desk Sergeant
X-Men: Apocalypse
Movie · as Pentagon Scientist
12 Monkeys
TV · as Leland Goines · 3 eps
Legends
Movie · as The Founding Father
Legends
TV · as Founding Father · 1 ep
Madam Secretary
TV · as Russell Jackson · 120 eps
The Americans
TV · as John Skeevers · 1 ep
Banshee
TV · as Jim Racine · 3 eps
The Bourne Legacy
Movie · as Dr. Donald Foite
Argo
Movie · as Robert Pender
The Words
Movie · as Joseph Cutler
Seven Psychopaths
Movie · as Paolo
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Movie · as Self
The Mob Doctor
TV · as Dr. Stafford White · 13 eps
Revolution
TV · as Calvin Horn · 5 eps
Tower Heist
Movie · as Director Mazin
Suits
TV · as Eric Woodall · 4 eps
The Event
TV · as Blake Sterling · 22 eps
White Collar
TV · as Brett Forsythe · 1 ep
In Bruges
Movie · as Canadian Guy
John Adams
TV · as John Dickinson · 1 ep
The Mentalist
TV · as Dr. Linus Wagner · 2 eps
True Blood
TV · as Magister · 5 eps
Live Free or Die Hard
Movie · as Asst. Deputy Director Molina
Damages
TV · as Ray Fiske · 16 eps
The Hoax
Movie · as Ralph Graves
Heroes
TV · as Emile Danko · 13 eps
Big Love
TV · as JJ · 19 eps
Shark
TV · as Elliott Dasher · 2 eps
Manderlay
Movie · as Dr. Hector
Bones
TV · as Carl Decker · 1 ep
The Inside
TV · as Teddy Bunch · 1 ep
Numb3rs
TV · as William Fraley · 1 ep
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie · as Vaughn Utly
Dogville Confessions
Movie · as Self
House
TV · as Jason · 1 ep
Lost
TV · as Edmund Burke · 1 ep
Dogville
Movie · as Ben
The Reagans
Movie · as Michael Deaver
Cold Case
TV · as John Doe · 1 ep
The Reagans
TV · as Michael Deaver · 2 eps
Unfaithful
Movie · as Detective Dean
The Twilight Zone
TV · as ER Chief · 1 ep
Black Hawk Down
Movie · as Harrell
Hannibal
Movie · as Dr. Cordell Doemling
24
TV · as Andre Drazen · 14 eps
Crossing Jordan
TV · as Elliot McCafferty · 1 ep
Dancer in the Dark
Movie · as District Attorney
Homicide: The Movie
Movie · as Ed Danvers
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Movie · as Thomas Mann Randolph
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · as Andrew Melton · 1 ep
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
TV · as Thomas Mann Randolph · 2 eps
Snow Falling on Cedars
Movie · as Dr. Whitman
Dash and Lilly
Movie · as Mel Berman
The West Wing
TV · as Steve Atwood · 2 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Everett Drake · 1 ep
The Rat Pack
Movie · as Bobby Kennedy
A Civil Action
Movie · as Bill Crowley
Nowhere to Go
Movie · as Principal Jack Walker
From the Earth to the Moon
TV · as Ken Mattingly · 1 ep
Donnie Brasco
Movie · as Tim Curley
Julian Po
Movie
Ellen Foster
Movie · as Educational Psychologist
Oz
TV · as Governor James Devlin · 32 eps
Ally McBeal
TV · as Judge Marshal Pink · 1 ep
The Practice
TV · as Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern, U.S. Atty. Sanders, Matthew Davies · 1 ep
The Associate
Movie · as SEC Agent Thompkins
After Jimmy
Movie · as Dr. Darren Walters
Courage Under Fire
Movie · as Banacek
White Squall
Movie · as Sanders
Infinity
Movie · as Bill Price
Millennium
TV · as Dr. Daniel 'Danny' Miller · 1 ep
Truman
Movie · as Eddie Jacobsen
My Brother's Keeper
Movie · as Dr. Hill
ER
TV · as Bruce Resnick · 1 ep
Chicago Hope
TV · as Eugene Ramsey · 1 ep
Frasier
TV · as Arnold Shaw · 1 ep
The X-Files
TV · as Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable · 1 ep
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · as Ed Danvers · 37 eps
School Ties
Movie · as Mr. Cleary
Our Sons
Movie · as Donald Barnes
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Movie · as Matt
Artificial Paradise
Movie · as Willy
Law & Order
TV · as Richard Kaplan, Phillip Swann, Ed Danvers, Charles Banks · 1 ep
Rachel River
Movie · as Momo
Echoes in the Darkness
Movie · as Vince Valaitis
All My Sons
Movie · as George Deever
Echoes in the Darkness
TV · as Vince Valaitis · 2 eps
L.A. Law
TV · as Joel Lassen · 1 ep
Mass Appeal
Movie · as Mark Dolson
The Sun Also Rises
TV · as Bill Gorton · 2 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Eddie Saunders · 1 ep
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as March Hare
Tex
Movie · as Hitchhiker
The Sender
Movie · as John Doe #83
The Soldier
Movie · as Bombmaker / Faux-Cleaning Lady
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Mark Dolson · 1 ep
American Playhouse
TV · as George Keller, Momo · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as March Hare · 1 ep