Željko Ivanek

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Željko Ivanek
Birthplace	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date of birth	August 15, 1957
Role on 24	Andre Drazen

Željko Ivanek played Andre Drazen during Season 1 of 24. Ivanek is a three-time Tony nominated actor and a Yale School of Drama graduate.

During his career, Ivanek has been a mainstay on police procedural series, logging numerous guest roles on shows such as "NYPD Blue", "CSI" (with Misha Collins), "Law & Order", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (with Tamara Tunie), "Bones", "House", and "Shark", among others. He had a regular role alongside Michelle Forbes on "Homicide: Life on the Street" as State's Attorney Ed Danvers and a recurring role as Governor James Devlin on "Oz". Like a handful of 24 actors, he appeared in an episode of "Lost" and was cast in late 2006 as Glenn Close's opposition in "Damages" (with Donnie Keshawarz). Other television credits include "The West Wing" (with Devika Parikh), "The Edge of Night", "From the Earth to the Moon" (with Wendy Crewson), "The Sun Also Rises" (with Julian Sands), "The Mentalist" (with Tim Guinee and Michael Holden), and "All My Sons".

On film, Ivanek has had roles in movies such as The Soldier (with Joaquim de Almeida and Alberta Watson), Mass Appeal, Aftermath: A Test of Love (with Doug Savant), School Ties, Truman (with Colm Feore and Harris Yulin), Courage Under Fire (with Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim Guinee, Sean Astin, and Albert Hall), The Associate (with Vincent Laresca), Donnie Brasco (with Zach Grenier), Julian Po (with Cherry Jones and Silas Weir Mitchell), A Civil Action (with Kevin Fry), Hannibal, and Black Hawk Down (with Glenn Morshower), The Manchurian Candidate (with Jon Voight and Jude Ciccolella), Manderlay (with Isaach De Bankole), and Live Free or Die Hard (with Christina Chang).

His name is pronounced "ZHEL-ko ee-VAH-nek."

[edit] External links

• Željko Ivanek at the Internet Movie Database
• Zeljko Ivanek interviewed on Working in the Theatre: Featured Performers video at American Theatre Wing.org, January 2008