Aleks Paunovic (born June 29, 1969) is a Canadian actor. Some of his many roles include prospector Jim McAllister on the drama TV series Arctic Air, Julius on the fantasy horror drama series Van Helsing, imposing warrior Wygar Oak on the second season of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Bojan "Boki" Boscovic on the dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer. Paunovic is from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and "three generations of fighters" are in his family. His father is of Serbian descent, and his mother is of Croatian ancestry. His grandfather, father, and uncle were all champion boxers in Yugoslavia, and he was a champion boxer until a shoulder injury ended his career. Paunovic was in a rock band before he got an acting job at his first audition. He supports the Red Cross/Impact Anti-Bullying Campaign, as he had been bullied as a child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aleks Paunovic, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• The Greatest
• 2025Hostile Takeover — Reaper
• 2025Peacock — Awesome Dad
• Suits LA — Billy Esposito
• The Silent Service — Logan Steiger
• FUBAR — Anton
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Polyphemus
• 2023The Silent Service — Logan Steiger
• 2022Crimson Point — Callum
• Fire Country — Odin
• Reacher — Taktarov
• 2022Sheltering Season — Thomas Millgard
• 2022Zero Contact — Trevor
• Hawkeye — Ivan
• 2021Into The Night — Officer Edmund Wilkes
• 2020Chained — Jim
• Most Dangerous Game — Timur (uncredited)
• Snowpiercer — Breachman Boscovic
• 2020The Sinners — Sheriff Fred Middleton, Executive Producer
• 2019Cold Pursuit — Detective Osgard
• 2019Freaks — Robert Kraigen
• 2019Puppet Killer — Jamie
• See — Wech
• 2019Volition — Terry
• NarcoLeap — Colonel Slater
• 2018Siberia — Yefrem
• 2018The Age of Adulting — Woodrow
• 2018The Shipment — Kaidan Katar
• 2017A Very Sordid Wedding — Hardy
• 2017War for the Planet of the Apes — Winter
• 2016Kindergarten Cop 2 — Zogu
• Van Helsing — Julius
• 2016What An Idiot — Caleb
• 2015Badge of Honor — Samuel
• 2015Blackway — Skell
• 2015Dead Rising: Watchtower — Logan
• 2015I Wanna Date U — Billy
• 2015Numb — Lee
• 2015The Starlight Heist — Eddie Shaugh
• 2015Vendetta — Griffin Abbott
• Zoo — Dallas
• iZombie — Julien Dupont
• 2014Far from Home — Dale Cottonwood
• 2014Feed the Gods — Pete
• The 100 — Gustus
• 2014Zapped — Ted Thompson
• 2013Christmas Bounty — Manucci
• 2013Chupacabra vs. the Alamo — Agent Perez
• Eve of Destruction — Ruslan
• 2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Cyclops #2
• 2013The Christmas Consultant — Boris Tartakov
• 2013The Marine 3: Homefront — Gabriel
• Arrow — Prison Guard Felton
• Continuum — Rollins
• 2012This Means War — Karate Dad
• Hell on Wheels — Anton Hersch
• 2011In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds — Allard
• InSecurity
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy — Shao Kahn
• Once Upon a Time — Berkley
• 2010Blood: A Butcher's Tale — Tony
• Caprica — William Adama Sr.
• 2010Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido — Hubs Cappa
• Human Target — Alexei Volkov
• Republic of Doyle — Angus Farris
• 2010Riverworld — Bernardo
• 2010Takedown — Linder
• 2009Driven to Kill — Tony Links
• 2009Fireball — Tyler Draven
• 2009Personal Effects — Tom
• 2008Heart of a Dragon — Tim
• Sanctuary — The Duke
• Bionic Woman — Assault Team Leader Curtis
• 2007Maneater — Sergeant Winshiser
• 2007Taming Tammy — Sy, Screenplay
• 2007The Messengers — Stunt Double
• Eureka — Global Security Officer
• 2006Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep — Ike
• Psych — Security Guard, Bartender, Serbian
• 2005Chasing Christmas — Vincent
• Supernatural — Gunner Lawless, Skinwalker #2, Sean's Friend
• 20047 Times Lucky — Sacco
• Battlestar Galactica — Marine Sgt. Omar Fischer
• Stargate Atlantis — Rakai
• 2003Picking Up & Dropping Off — Joey
• 2003The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron — Lazarri
• 2002Christmas Rush — Petrovich
• 2002I Spy — Bob
• John Doe — Pavel Kovarik
• The Dead Zone — Matthew Meter
• 2002Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled — Brick, Stunt Double
• Mutant X — Nick
• Smallville — Orderly, Thug
• Andromeda — Agio
• Stargate SG-1 — Shaq'rel
• 1994Heads — Roderick
• Never Use Alone — Peter (Voice)
• Sundowning

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast — Self
• 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye — Self - Ivan
• Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron