Zeljko Ivanek
Also Known As: Zeljko Silver Ivanek, Željko Ivanek, Желько Иванек, ژلیکو ایوانک, زلیکو ایوانک, ژلیکو ایوانِک
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Birthday: August 15, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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Dancer in the Dark
Overview: 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 and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Black Hawk Down
Overview: 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 the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Genres: Action War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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Dogville
Overview: 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, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-21
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Live Free or Die Hard
Overview: 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 intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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The Associate
Overview: 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 investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: 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, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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In Bruges
Overview: 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 previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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The Rat Pack
Overview: 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 careers of the Rat Pack: Dean Martin has become a big success despite the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career is at its peak; Sammy Davis, Jr., is making a comeback after a near fatal car crash, and standup comic Joey Bishop is gaining exposure as an opening act for the other three. The Pack becomes complete when Sinatra reconciles with actor Peter Lawford, who has been ostracized since being seen out publicly with Sinatra's ex-wife, Ava Gardner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-22
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A Civil Action
Overview: 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 obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Hannibal
Overview: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Donnie Brasco
Overview: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-27
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Tex
Overview: After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: 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 squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Truman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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The Bourne Legacy
Overview: New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Argo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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The Sender
Overview: A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Dogville Confessions
Overview: A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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The Words
Overview: The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Seven Psychopaths
Overview: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Tower Heist
Overview: 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 gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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Our Sons
Overview: 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-minded mother, but the news sends her reeling. However, the real shock comes when James asks her to travel to Arkansas and inform his lover's estranged mom, Luanne, that her son has AIDS. As Audrey and Luanne learn to put aside their prejudice toward each other, they soon discover how to share their thoughts, hopes and fears for their sons.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-19
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Mass Appeal
Overview: A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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The Reagans
Overview: 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 Hollywood, through his governorship of California until Reagan's last day in office as President in 1989.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-30
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Julian Po
Overview: 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 in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Echoes in the Darkness
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Aftermath: A Test of Love
Overview: Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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Nowhere to Go
Overview: A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled children. Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her family including a loving grandmother. With the help of a new friend, she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a new life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-09
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My Brother's Keeper
Overview: A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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The Last Duel
Overview: King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-13
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Overview: 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 emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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After Jimmy
Overview: 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, Jimmy kills himself.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-24
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Artificial Paradise
Overview: 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 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 all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1990-05-29
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Courage Under Fire
Overview: 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 chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Rachel River
Overview: A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Overview: 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 town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Unfaithful
Overview: 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, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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The Hoax
Overview: 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 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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White Squall
Overview: 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 is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Overview: After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-18
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Dash and Lilly
Overview: Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled alcoholism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-31
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The Soldier
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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School Ties
Overview: 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 his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Ellen Foster
Overview: 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 find a place to call home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Manderlay
Overview: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Infinity
Overview: Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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All My Sons
Overview: 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 in determining the outcome of events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-19
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The Courier
Overview: Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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