Zeljko Ivanek

Zeljko Ivanek

Date of Birth: 15 Aug 1957

Country: Slovenia

Biography: Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian–American actor, known for his role as Ray Fiske on Damages, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. Ivanek is also known for his role of Ed Danvers on Homicide: Life on the Street and Homicide: The Movie, Governor James Devlin on Oz, Andre Drazen on 24, Blake Sterling on the short-lived NBC series The Event, and Emile "The Hunter" Danko in Heroes. From 2014 until 2019, he starred as Russell Jackson in the CBS drama Madam Secretary.

Total Credits at Criticker: 46 (Actor)

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    Black Hawk Down
    123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. (imdb)
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    A Civil Action
    Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area... (imdb)
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    Courage Under Fire
    Lt. Colonel Serling becomes embroiled in intrigue when he investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of medal-of-honor candidate Capt. Karen Walden.
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    Dancer in the Dark
    Bjork stars as Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a factory in rural America. She is losing her eyesight and her 10 year-old son stands to suffer the same fate if she can't put away enough money to secure him an operation.
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    Dogville
    The beautiful fugitive Grace arrives in the isolated Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them.
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    Donnie Brasco
    A gangland thriller about an undercover FBI agent who befriends a hitman to gain entry to the mob.
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    Hannibal
    Hannibal returns to America and attempts to make contact with disgraced Agent Starling and survive a vengeful victim's plan.
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    The Manchurian Candidate
    As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it -- a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. (Paramount Pictures)
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    Snow Falling on Cedars
    Set against the backdrop of the national crisis that erupted following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is an elegiac, multi-layered exploration of memory, love and reconciliation on an island in the Pacific Northwest. (Universal Pictures)
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    Manderlay
    Manderlay is a plantation where a group of people are living as if slavery hadn't been abolished 70 years earlier. Upon leaving Dogville in 1933, Grace and her father head far south to the state of Alabama where they arrive upon the bizarre place.
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    The Associate
    A film about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
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    The Rat Pack
    The Rat Pack (1998) - TV Movie
    In the 1950's and 1960's Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous "Rat Pack". He, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, mobster Sam Giancano, Judith Cambell and the FBI... (imdb)
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    Live Free or Die Hard
    On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle - but he never figures on an old-school "analog" fly in the "digital" ointment. Bruce Willis is John McClane. No mask. No cape. No problem.
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    In Bruges
    Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
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    John Adams
    John Adams (2008) - TV Mini-Series
    A seven-part biopic miniseries on second US President John Adams, and the story of the first fifty years of the United States.
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    The Sender
    A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
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    Mass Appeal
    An older priest has retained the good will of his parishioners by cracking jokes and not taking a stand on crucial matters. A young seminarian with a rebellious reputation arrives and the older priest is tasked to bring him to 'party line'.
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    Tower Heist
    When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. (imdb)
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    The Words
    When an aspiring writer claims another man's long lost work as his own, the price he must pay is more than he could have ever imagined. (imdb)
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    The Bourne Legacy
    Centered on a new CIA operative in the universe based on Robert Ludlum's novels. (imdb)
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    Argo
    As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. (imdb)
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    Seven Psychopaths
    A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu. (imdb)
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    That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
    Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in between. Now you'll know who they are. (imdb)
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    The Reagans
    The Reagans (2003) - TV Movie
    A portrayal of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's rise from hard-working Hollywood couple to First Family. Beginning with their first date in 1949, the story establishes parallel dramatic tracks, the Reagans' acquisition of power and remoteness from their children, and never veers from them. (amazon.com)
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    Echoes in the Darkness
    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 Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years. (imdb)
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    Aftermath: a Test of Love
    Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
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    Umetni raj
    Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together.
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    Damages
    Damages (2007) - TV Series
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    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    In this darkly comic drama, a mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder, when they fail to catch the culprit.
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    School Ties
    A jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open. (imdb)
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    Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
    Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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    Rachel River
    Comedy drama about a young journalist (Pamela Reed) who, upon returning to her Minnesota home town, begins to examine her life.
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    From the Earth to the Moon
    Through dramatization, this series relates the story of the conquest of the moon by the Americans, from the Mercury and Gemini projects to the legendary Apollo missions. (imdb)
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    Madam Secretary
    A look at the personal and professional life of a Secretary of State as she tries to balance her work and family life. (imdb)
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    My Brothers Keeper
    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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    Tex
    Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them. (imdb)
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    The X-Files
    The X-Files (1993) - TV Series
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    Our Sons
    Our Sons (1991) - TV Movie
    Donald is a young man dying of AIDS. His lover, James, asks his mother to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald's mother, who has been estranged from her son for years. (imdb)
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    The Hoax
    Inspired by true events, this film stars Richard Gere as Clifford Irving, a charismatic and charming writer who persuades the world that he is the authorized biographer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. (Miramax Films)
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    Unfaithful
    An erotic thriller about the body language of guilt, centering on a couple living in the New York City suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. (20th Century Fox)
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    White Squall
    Nature's strongest force is the will to survive. That's a hard-learned lesson in this true story about a noble mission turned into disaster. In the early 1960s, Capt. Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges) operates the sailboat Albatross as a floating school for troubled teen boys needing discipline. But a chance encounter with a freak storm offers a traumatic and troubling education in life and death.
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    Truman
    Truman (1995) - TV Movie
    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 to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President. (imdb)
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    The Last Duel
    King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel. (imdb)
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    12 Monkeys
    12 Monkeys (2015) - TV Series
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    The Americans
    The Americans (2013) - TV Series
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    The Mob Doctor
    The Mob Doctor (2012) - TV Series
    A young thoracic surgeon becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia and is forced to moonlight as a mob doctor, while also working full time at Chicago's most prominent hospital. (imdb)
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