From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Victor Slezak (born July 30, 1957) is an American stage, television and screen actor who has appeared in numerous films, including The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Beyond Rangoon (1995), The Devil's Own (1997), The Siege (1998),The Cat's Meow (2001), Timequest as John F. Kennedy (2002) and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). On Broadway, he starred as John F. Kennedy, opposite Margaret Colin, in Jackie: An American Life. He appeared Off-Broadway in 2007, playing the father of the character played by actress Olivia Wilde in Beauty on the Vine at the Harold Clurman Theatre. Slezak was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He is married to Leslie Rawlings; they have one child. Slezak is not related to Walter Slezak or Erika Slezak. His surname is of Czech origin (Slezák, meaning Silesian).

Filmography

• 2026Take Me Home — Bob
• 2024Babygirl — Mr. Missel
• 2024The Order — Richard Butler
• 2022Out of the Blue — Richard Chambers
• 2022The Independent — President Archer
• 2021Worth — John Ashcroft
• Hunters — Wernher von Braun
• 2020The Glorias — Editor NY Times Magazine
• NOS4A2 — Horace Haber
• 2019The Report — Senator Jay Rockefeller
• Succession — Senator Roberts
• 2018The Land of Steady Habits — Wes Thompson
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — Joe Mueller
• Billions — Gary Bogard
• Bull — Eric Godford
• 2016The Mulberry Bush — Bill
• The OA — Kevin Harris
• 2015A Rising Tide — Alek Rama
• Billy & Billie — James Jones
• Blindspot — General Mark Sheridan
• Madam Secretary — Vlad Diacov
• 2014That Awkward Moment — Older Gentleman
• 2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight — Marshal of the Court
• The Americans — Colonel Rennhull, Lyle Rennhull
• The Blacklist — Henry Krueger
• 2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Maxwell Underwood
• 666 Park Avenue — Daniel Stone
• 2011Abduction — Tom Shealy
• Hell on Wheels — Ulysses S. Grant
• Homeland — Warden Jack Pritchard
• Person of Interest — Michael Delancey
• 2011Too Big to Fail — Greg Curl
• Unforgettable — Agent Robert Thorne
• Blue Bloods — Bryce Helfond, Chief of Intel, Inter Chief
• 2010Salt — One-Star General
• 2009Bride Wars — Colson
• 2009Taking Chance — Sgt Mulcahy
• The Good Wife — Palgrave Director
• 2009Veronika Decides to Die — Gabriel Durant
• 2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 — Doctor
• 2006The Notorious Bettie Page — Minister in Miami
• Jonny Zero — Styles
• 2002The Cat's Meow — George Thomas
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Reverend Hale
• 2001The Ponder Heart — Ovid Springer
• 2000Lost Souls — Father Thomas
• 2000Timequest — John F. Kennedy
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Blake Peters
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues — O'Bannion
• 1998Fool's Gold — Joe
• 1998One Tough Cop — FBI Agent Burt Payne
• 1998The Atrocity Exhibition — Travis Talbert
• 1998The Siege — Colonel Hardwick
• 1997The Devil's Own — Evan Stanley
• 1995Beyond Rangoon — Mr. Scott
• 1995Just Cause — Sgt. Rogers
• 1995Melissa — Rick
• 1995The Bridges of Madison County — Michael Johnson
• New York Undercover — Dennis Fairchild
• 1994Reunion
• 1992Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story — Sanger
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — O'Bannion
• 1991Bed & Breakfast — Alex Caxton
• 1991Darrow — John Fredericks
• 1991The Good Policeman — Burt Bortlesman
• Law & Order — William Cousins, Steven Green, Jeffery Arbaugh, Philip Andrews
• 1987Five Corners — Policeman
• Leg Work — Sean Reese
• Miami Vice — Jerome Horowitz
• American Playhouse — John Fredericks

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2008An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' — Self
• Between Here and Home — Self