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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
August 11, 1950Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
48Place of birth
Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, U.S.S.R.Also known as
Elya Zalmanovich Baskin , Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin
Cast credits
The Name of the Rose
Severinus
Spider-Man 2
Mr. Ditkovitch
Spider-Man 3
Mr. Ditkovitch
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
General Borschevsky
Moscow on the Hudson
Anatoly Cherkasov
DeepStar Six
Burciaga
Air Force One
Andrei Kolchak
Angels & Demons
Cardinal Petrov
October Sky
Ike Bykovsky
The Pickle
Russian Cap Driver
The Dukes
Murph Sinitsky
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Letvinko
Running Red
Strelkin
Enemies, a Love Story
Yaska Kobik
Wheelmen
Vladimir
Jimmy P.
Dr. Jokl
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Boris
My Town
Slovack
2010
Maxim Brailovsky
Combat Academy
Interpreter
Embassy
Aelx SerovImages
