Željko Ivanek
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(51 total)
X-Men: Apocalypse
as Pentagon Scientist
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Desk Sergeant
Argo
as Robert Pender
Live Free or Die Hard
as Asst. Deputy Director Molina
Black Hawk Down
as LTC Gary Harrell
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Donald Foite
In Bruges
as Canadian Guy
Hannibal
as Dr. Cordell Doemling
Donnie Brasco
as Tim Curley
Seven Psychopaths
as Paolo
The Last Duel
as Le Coq
Tower Heist
as Director Mazin
Dogville
as Ben
Dancer in the Dark
as District Attorney
The Manchurian Candidate
as Vaughn Utly
Unfaithful
as Detective Dean
The Courier
as CIA Boss
The Words
as Joseph Cutler
Courage Under Fire
as Banacek
A Civil Action
as Bill Crowley
TV Shows
(56 total)
House
as Jason
Suits
as Eric Woodall
Lost
as Edmund Burke
The Mentalist
as Dr. Linus Wagner
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Everett Drake
The X-Files
as Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable
Bones
as Carl Decker
Heroes
as Emile Danko
True Blood
as Magister
24
as Andre Drazen
White Collar
as Brett Forsythe
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Andrew Melton
Banshee
as Jim Racine
12 Monkeys
as Leland Goines
The Americans
as John Skeevers
ER
as Bruce Resnick
Frasier
as Arnold Shaw
Oz
as Governor James Devlin
The Walking Dead: Dead City
as The Croat
Law & Order
as Richard Kaplan