Željko Ivanek

Known for ActingBorn 1957-08-15 (age 68)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.Read more

Movies & web series

All My Sons

Dash and Lilly

House

The Mentalist

Suits

White Collar

The X-Files

The West Wing

Bones

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Walking Dead: Dead City

Banshee

From the Earth to the Moon

Oz

The Reagans

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Americans

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Lost

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Dancer in the Dark

Cold Case

24

Dogville

John Adams

ER

True Blood

Millennium

Artificial Paradise

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Practice

Frasier

The Last Duel

Truman

In Bruges

12 Monkeys

Damages

Donnie Brasco

The Sun Also Rises

Heroes

Argo

Black Hawk Down

Murder, She Wrote

Echoes in the Darkness

The Inside

Let the Right One In

The Courier