Elya Baskin
Baskin was born in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin. He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. Baskin immigrated to the United States in 1976. He has built a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as a Russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a Russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production. He is also a regular on the long-running Internet program "Outlaw Radio" hosted by Matt Alan, where he makes amusing commentary on contemporary topics, and does comedic interaction with fellow actor Richard Tyson and author Burl Barer, among many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elya Baskin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
91 acting credits
Acting · 91
Criminal Minds
2005
Castle
2009
Homeland
2011
Chicago Med
2015
The West Wing
1999
The Closer
2005
MacGyver
1985
Cold Case
2003
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Heroes
2006
Quantum Leap
1989
St. Elsewhere
1982
MacGyver
2016
Mad About You
1992
Madam Secretary
2014
Coach
1989
Early Edition
1996
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Felicity
1998
Northern Exposure
1990
Ellen
1994
Becker
1998
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
The Rookie: Feds
2022
Spider-Man 3
2007
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
The Agency
2001
Spider-Man 2
2004
The Invisible Man
2000
Alias
2001
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
Angels & Demons
2009
CBS Summer Playhouse
1987
The Comedy Factory
1985
Roseanne
1988
Masquerade
1983
Air Force One
1997
The Name of the Rose
1986
VR.5
1995
True Blue
1989
2010
1984
Something So Right
1996
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
October Sky
1999
Reagan
2024
Thirteen Days
2000
Spy Hard
1996
Alright Already
1997
DeepStar Six
1989
Raise the Titanic
1980
Being There
1979
The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977
Love Affair
1994
Vice Versa
1988
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
2010
American Pop
1981
The Pickle
1993
Moscow on the Hudson
1984
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
Combat Academy
1986
Supervized
2019
The Long Recess
1972
The World's Greatest Lover
1977
Jimmy P.
2013
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979
Forest Warrior
1996
Running Red
1999
Big Man on Campus
1989
The Elder Son
2006
Wheelmen
2005
Legacy
2020
Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger
1993
Chicanery
2017
Embassy
1985
The Hive
2015
Sisters
1991
Runaway Virus
2000
Enemies, a Love Story
1989
Telegram
1972
Zits
1988
Streets of Gold
1986
I Love Us
2021
My Town
1986
Say It in Russian
2007
The Dukes
2007
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Silent Screams
2015
Color of the Cross
2006
God's Smile
2009
Hit Me
2019
Guys' Night in The Thing
2025