
Zeljko Ivanek
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.359 |
Birthday | 1957-08-15 |
Place of Birth | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Also Known As | Zeljko Silver Ivanek, Željko Ivanek, Желько Иванек, ژلیکو ایوانک, زلیکو ایوانک, ژلیکو ایوانِک, |

2000

Dancer in the Dark
7.869/1826
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder a...
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Dancer in the Dark

2001

Black Hawk Down
7.4/5847
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...
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Black Hawk Down

2003

Dogville
7.772/2452
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...
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Dogville

2007

Live Free or Die Hard
6.626/5917
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i...
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Live Free or Die Hard

1996

The Associate
6.3/216
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior inve...
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The Associate

2000

Homicide: The Movie
7/28
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, c...
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Homicide: The Movie

2008

In Bruges
7.49/5260
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previ...
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In Bruges

1998

The Rat Pack
5.9/40
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo...
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The Rat Pack

1998

A Civil Action
6.46/445
Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obses...
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A Civil Action

2001

Hannibal
6.77/4802
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh...
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Hannibal

1997

Donnie Brasco
7.536/4507
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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Donnie Brasco

1982

Tex
6.2/51
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
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Tex

2004

The Manchurian Candidate
6.5/1580
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...
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The Manchurian Candidate

1995

Truman
7.6/15
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
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Truman

2012

The Bourne Legacy
6.227/5743
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
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The Bourne Legacy

2012

Argo
7.3/8373
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...
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Argo

1982

The Sender
5.632/53
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
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The Sender

2004

Dogville Confessions
6.8/24
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, B...
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Dogville Confessions

2012

The Words
6.6/1201
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. The...
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The Words

2012

Seven Psychopaths
6.818/3968
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved...
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Seven Psychopaths

2011

Tower Heist
6.104/2994
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire g...
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Tower Heist

1991

Our Sons
5.5/19
When James admits to his mother that he is gay it strains her liberal attitude. A San Diego businesswoman, Audrey believes she is a modern, open-minde...
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Our Sons

2012

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
6.6/28
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses,...
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing

1984

Mass Appeal
6.2/10
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
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Mass Appeal

2003

The Reagans
4.8/5
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in...
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The Reagans

1997

Julian Po
6.6/37
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out...
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Julian Po

1987

Echoes in the Darkness
7.5/4
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...
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Echoes in the Darkness

2000

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
7.6/5
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, sp...
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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

1991

Aftermath: A Test of Love
5.2/4
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
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Aftermath: A Test of Love

1998

Nowhere to Go
0/0
A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled childre...
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Nowhere to Go

1995

My Brother's Keeper
1/1
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
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My Brother's Keeper

1983

Alice in Wonderland
8/2
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
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Alice in Wonderland

2021

The Last Duel
7.429/3461
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
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The Last Duel

1999

Snow Falling on Cedars
6.036/138
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...
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Snow Falling on Cedars

1996

After Jimmy
5/1
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Ji...
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After Jimmy

1990

Artificial Paradise
8/3
Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain...
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Artificial Paradise

1996

Courage Under Fire
6.494/932
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...
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Courage Under Fire

1988

Rachel River
7/5
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
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Rachel River

2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.069/10229
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her...
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2002

Unfaithful
6.7/1568
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul,...
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Unfaithful

2006

The Hoax
6.3/212
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1...
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The Hoax

1996

White Squall
6.3/370
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage...
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White Squall

2016

X-Men: Apocalypse
6.512/13104
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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X-Men: Apocalypse

1999

Dash and Lilly
8/2
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry,...
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Dash and Lilly

1982

The Soldier
5.474/38
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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The Soldier

1992

School Ties
6.5/397
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from...
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School Ties

1998

Ellen Foster
6.071/14
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...
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Ellen Foster

2005

Manderlay
6.9/350
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...
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Manderlay

1996

Infinity
6.2/17
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
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Infinity

1987

All My Sons
0/0
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles...
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All My Sons

2020

The Courier
7.047/1176
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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