Personal Info
Birth date
1957-08-15 (67 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Also known as
Zeljko Silver Ivanek
Željko Ivanek
Желько Иванек
ژلیکو ایوانک
زلیکو ایوانک
ژلیکو ایوانِک
Zeljko Ivanek
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
7.933
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order
7.402
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.House
8.589
Overview:
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.The X-Files
8.378
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Bones
8.213
Overview:
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.636
Overview:
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.Lost
7.9
Overview:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.Suits
8.223
Overview:
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.The Mentalist
8.361
Overview:
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.Great Performances
5.5
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Frasier
7.678
Overview:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.Damages
7.457
Overview:
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Cold Case
7.781
Overview:
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.Heroes
7.455
Overview:
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.The Americans
7.873
Overview:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.White Collar
8.2
Overview:
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.24
7.8
Overview:
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.Banshee
7.975
Overview:
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.Numb3rs
7.034
Overview:
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.True Blood
7.617
Overview:
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.ER
7.821
Overview:
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.Crossing Jordan
7.17
Overview:
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.12 Monkeys
7.392
Overview:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.Oz
8
Overview:
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.The Event
6.372
Overview:
The Event is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker, an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila, and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.The West Wing
8.3
Overview:
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.The Walking Dead: Dead City
8.021
Overview:
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.The Twilight Zone
7.161
Overview:
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.Big Love
6.959
Overview:
The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.Acting
2023The Walking Dead: Dead City (14 Episodes) as The Croat
2022Let the Right One In (5 Episodes) as Arthur Logan
2022Now and Then (8 Episodes) as Sullivan
2021The Last Duel as Le Coq
2020The Courier as CIA Boss
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Cedric Connolly
2016X-Men: Apocalypse as Pentagon Scientist
201512 Monkeys (3 Episodes) as Leland Goines
2014Madam Secretary (120 Episodes) as Russell Jackson
2014Legends (1 Episode) as Founding Father
2013The Americans (1 Episode) as John Skeevers
2013Banshee (3 Episodes) as Jim Racine
2012Seven Psychopaths as Paolo
2012Argo as Robert Pender
2012That Guy... Who Was in That Thing as Self
2012The Mob Doctor (13 Episodes) as Dr. Stafford White
2012Revolution (5 Episodes) as Dr. Calvin Horn
2012The Words as Joseph Cutler
2012The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Donald Foite
2011Tower Heist as Director Mazin
2011Suits (4 Episodes) as Eric Woodall
2010The Event (22 Episodes) as Blake Sterling
2009White Collar (1 Episode) as Brett Forsythe
2008The Mentalist (2 Episodes) as Dr. Linus Wagner
2008True Blood (5 Episodes) as Magister
2008John Adams (1 Episode) as John Dickinson
2008In Bruges as Canadian Guy
2007Damages (13 Episodes) as Ray Fiske
2007Live Free or Die Hard as Asst. Deputy Director Molina
2006The Hoax as Ralph Graves
2006Heroes (13 Episodes) as Emile Danko
2006Big Love (19 Episodes) as JJ
2005Bones (1 Episode) as Carl Decker
2005The Inside (1 Episode) as Teddy Bunch
2005Manderlay as Dr. Hector
2005Numb3rs (1 Episode) as William Fraley
2004House (1 Episode) as Jason
2004Lost (1 Episode) as Edmund Burke
2004The Manchurian Candidate as Vaughn Utly
2004Dogville Confessions as Self
2003The Reagans as Michael Deaver
2003The Reagans (2 Episodes) as Michael Deaver
2003Cold Case (1 Episode) as John Doe
2003Dogville as Ben
2002The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as ER Chief
2002Unfaithful as Detective Dean
2001Black Hawk Down as LTC Gary Harrell
200124 (10 Episodes) as Andre Drazen
2001Crossing Jordan (1 Episode) as Elliot McCafferty
2001Hannibal as Dr. Cordell Doemling
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Andrew Melton
2000Dancer in the Dark as District Attorney
2000Homicide: The Movie as Ed Danvers
2000Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Thomas Mann Randolph
2000Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2 Episodes) as Thomas Mann Randolph
1999Snow Falling on Cedars as Dr. Whitman
1999The West Wing (2 Episodes) as Steve Atwood
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Everett Drake
1999Dash and Lilly as Mel Berman
1998A Civil Action as Bill Crowley
1998Ellen Foster as Educational Psychologist
1998The Rat Pack as Bobby Kennedy
1998From the Earth to the Moon (1 Episode) as Ken Mattingly
1998Nowhere to Go as Principal Jack Walker
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Judge Marshal Pink
1997Julian Po as Unknown
1997Oz (4 Episodes) as Governor James Devlin
1997The Practice (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern, U.S. Atty. Sanders, Matthew Davies
1997Donnie Brasco as Tim Curley
1996The Associate as SEC Agent Thompkins
1996Infinity as Bill Price
1996After Jimmy as Dr. Darren Walters
1996Courage Under Fire as Banacek
1996White Squall as Sanders
1995If Not for You (1 Episode) as Elliot Gordon
1995Truman as Eddie Jacobsen
1995My Brother's Keeper as Dr. Hill
1994ER (1 Episode) as Bruce Resnick
1993Frasier (1 Episode) as Arnold Shaw
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable
1993Homicide: Life on the Street (10 Episodes) as Ed Danvers
1992School Ties as Mr. Cleary
1991Our Sons as Donald Barnes
1991Aftermath: A Test of Love as Matt
1990Law & Order (1, 1, 2, 2 Episode) as Richard Kaplan, Phillip Swann, Ed Danvers, Charles Banks
1990Artificial Paradise as Willy
1988Rachel River as Momo
1987Echoes in the Darkness as Vince Valaitis
1987Echoes in the Darkness (2 Episodes) as Vince Valaitis
1987All My Sons as George Deever
1984Mass Appeal as Mark Dolson
1984The Sun Also Rises (2 Episodes) as Bill Gorton
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Eddie Saunders
1983Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
1982The Sender as John Doe #83
1982Tex as Hitchhiker
1982The Soldier as Bombmaker / Faux-Cleaning Lady
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as March Hare
1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Nominee