Željko Ivanek (Russell Jackson) is well known to audiences for his many film, stage and television roles, including his Emmy Award-winning performance in the legal thriller “Damages” and his series regular roles in “The Event” and “The Mob Doctor.”

On television, he had recurring roles in the series “Banshee,” “Revolution,” “True Blood,” “Big Love,” “Heroes,” “24,” “Oz” and “Homicide: Life on the Street.” He has guest-starred in “The Mentalist,” “Cold Case” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” on the Network, “Lost,” “ER,” “Law & Order,” “Frasier,” “The West Wing,” “N.Y.P.D. Blue,” “The Practice” and “The X-Files,” among many others. Additionally, he appeared in many television movies and mini-series, including “The Reagans,” “Sally Hemings: An American Scandal,” on the Network, “John Adams,” “Dash and Lilly,” “The Rat Pack,” “Truman,” “Our Sons,” “The Sun Also Rises,” “Echoes in the Darkness” and “All My Sons.”

On Broadway, Ivanek received Tony Award nominations for his roles in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Two Shakespearean Actors and Brighton Beach Memoirs. His additional Broadway credits include The Pillowman, The Glass Menagerie and Loot. Off-Broadway, he appeared in A Map of the World, Cloud 9, The Cherry Orchard and Hamlet. Additionally, he appeared in bash at the Almeida in London, and Master Harold… and the boys, at the Yale Repertory, in which he originated the role of Hally.

On the big screen, Ivanek starred in “Seven Psychopaths,” “Argo,” “The Bourne Legacy,” “In Bruges,” “Live Free or Die Hard,” “The Hoax,” “Manderlay,” “Dogville,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Unfaithful,” “Hannibal,” “Dancer in the Dark,” “A Civil Action,” “Donnie Brasco,”  “Courage Under Fire,” “White Squall,” “School Ties” and “Mass Appeal,” among many others.

Ivanek was born in the former Yugoslavia, in Ljubljana, the capital of what is now Slovenia, and now resides in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale University and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His birthday is Aug. 15.