Željko Ivanek
Acting
- Born
- August 15, 1957
- Place of Birth
- Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
- Known For
- Мужской
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.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Everett Drake
1999
The Mentalist
as Dr. Linus Wagner
2008
Law & Order
as Ed Danvers, as Richard Kaplan, as Phillip Swann, as Charles Banks
1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Andrew Melton
2000
House
as Jason
2004
Bones
as Carl Decker
2005
24
as Andre Drazen
2001
Suits
as Eric Woodall
2011
Lost
as Edmund Burke
2004
The X-Files
as Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable
1993
Frasier
as Arnold Shaw
1993
The West Wing
as Steve Atwood
1999
ER
as Bruce Resnick
1994
The Practice
as Matthew Davies, as U.S. Atty. Sanders, as Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern
1997
Heroes
as Emile Danko
2006
Great Performances
as March Hare
1971
Murder, She Wrote
as Eddie Saunders
1984
Crossing Jordan
as Elliot McCafferty
2001
Numb3rs
as William Fraley
2005
Cold Case
as John Doe
2003
L.A. Law
as Joel Lassen
1986
Banshee
as Jim Racine
2013
True Blood
as Magister
2008
White Collar
as Brett Forsythe
2009
Madam Secretary
as Russell Jackson
2014
St. Elsewhere
as Mark Dolson
1982
The Americans
as John Skeevers
2013
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Ed Danvers
1993
Oz
as Governor James Devlin
1997
Damages
as Ray Fiske
2007
Big Love
as JJ
2006
Millennium
as Dr. Daniel 'Danny' Miller
1996
12 Monkeys
as Leland Goines
2015
The Walking Dead: Dead City
as The Croat
2023
The Twilight Zone
as ER Chief
2002
Ally McBeal
as Judge Marshal Pink
1997
Shark
as Elliott Dasher
2006
From the Earth to the Moon
as Ken Mattingly
1998
Legends
as Founding Father
2014
Revolution
as Calvin Horn
2012
The Event
as Blake Sterling
2010
John Adams
as John Dickinson
2008
Let the Right One In
as Arthur Logan
2022
The Mob Doctor
as Dr. Stafford White
2012