Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian-American actor. Known for his work in film, television, and theatre, he is the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as three Tony Award nominations. Ivanek's film credits include Courage Under Fire (1996), Donnie Brasco (1997), Hannibal, Black Hawk Down (both 2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Bourne Legacy, Argo, Seven Psychopaths (all 2012), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). He has appeared in several films by Lars von Trier: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), and Manderlay (2005). On television, Ivanek is known for playing Ray Fiske on the FX series Damages (2007–2010), for which he won the 2008 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He also appeared as Ed Danvers on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Russell Jackson on the CBS drama Madam Secretary (2014–2019), and has had recurring roles on series such as Oz (1997–2003), 24 (2002), True Blood (2008), Heroes (2009), Big Love (2009–2010), Banshee (2014), and 12 Monkeys (2015–2017). Since 2023, he has starred as "The Croat" on AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Filmography

• The Walking Dead: Dead City — The Croat
• Let the Right One In — Arthur Logan
• Now and Then — Sullivan
• 2021The Last Duel — Le Coq
• 2020The Courier — CIA Boss
• 2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Desk Sergeant
• 2016X-Men: Apocalypse — Pentagon Scientist
• 12 Monkeys — Leland Goines
• Legends — Founding Father
• Madam Secretary — Russell Jackson
• Banshee — Jim Racine
• The Americans — John Skeevers
• 2012Argo — Robert Pender
• Revolution — Calvin Horn
• 2012Seven Psychopaths — Paolo
• 2012The Bourne Legacy — Dr. Donald Foite
• The Mob Doctor — Dr. Stafford White
• 2012The Words — Joseph Cutler
• Suits — Eric Woodall
• 2011Tower Heist — Director Mazin
• The Event — Blake Sterling
• White Collar — Brett Forsythe
• 2008In Bruges — Canadian Guy
• John Adams — John Dickinson
• The Mentalist — Dr. Linus Wagner
• True Blood — Magister
• Damages — Ray Fiske
• 2007Live Free or Die Hard — Asst. Deputy Director Molina
• Big Love — JJ
• Heroes — Emile Danko
• Shark — Elliott Dasher
• 2006The Hoax — Ralph Graves
• Bones — Carl Decker
• 2005Manderlay — Dr. Hector
• Numb3rs — William Fraley
• The Inside — Teddy Bunch
• House — Jason
• Lost — Edmund Burke
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — Vaughn Utly
• Cold Case — John Doe
• 2003Dogville — Ben
• 2003The Reagans — Michael Deaver
• The Reagans — Michael Deaver
• The Twilight Zone — ER Chief
• 2002Unfaithful — Detective Dean
• 24 — Andre Drazen
• 2001Black Hawk Down — Harrell
• Crossing Jordan — Elliot McCafferty
• 2001Hannibal — Dr. Cordell Doemling
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Andrew Melton
• 2000Dancer in the Dark — District Attorney
• 2000Homicide: The Movie — Ed Danvers
• 2000Sally Hemings: An American Scandal — Thomas Mann Randolph
• Sally Hemings: An American Scandal — Thomas Mann Randolph
• 1999Dash and Lilly — Mel Berman
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Everett Drake
• 1999Snow Falling on Cedars — Dr. Whitman
• The West Wing — Steve Atwood
• 1998A Civil Action — Bill Crowley
• From the Earth to the Moon — Ken Mattingly
• 1998Nowhere to Go — Principal Jack Walker
• 1998The Rat Pack — Bobby Kennedy
• Ally McBeal — Judge Marshal Pink
• 1997Donnie Brasco — Tim Curley
• 1997Ellen Foster — Educational Psychologist
• 1997Julian Po
• Oz — Governor James Devlin
• The Practice — Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern, U.S. Atty. Sanders, Matthew Davies
• 1996After Jimmy — Dr. Darren Walters
• 1996Courage Under Fire — Banacek
• 1996Infinity — Bill Price
• Millennium — Dr. Daniel 'Danny' Miller
• 1996The Associate — SEC Agent Thompkins
• 1996White Squall — Sanders
• 1995My Brother's Keeper — Dr. Hill
• 1995Truman — Eddie Jacobsen
• Chicago Hope — Eugene Ramsey
• ER — Bruce Resnick
• Frasier — Arnold Shaw
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Ed Danvers
• The X-Files — Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable
• 1992School Ties — Mr. Cleary
• 1991Aftermath: A Test of Love — Matt
• 1991Our Sons — Donald Barnes
• 1990Artificial Paradise — Willy
• Law & Order — Richard Kaplan, Phillip Swann, Ed Danvers, Charles Banks
• 1989Rachel River — Momo
• 1987All My Sons — George Deever
• 1987Echoes in the Darkness — Vince Valaitis
• Echoes in the Darkness — Vince Valaitis
• L.A. Law — Joel Lassen
• 1984Mass Appeal — Mark Dolson
• Murder, She Wrote — Eddie Saunders
• The Sun Also Rises — Bill Gorton
• 1983Alice in Wonderland — March Hare
• American Playhouse — George Keller, Momo
• St. Elsewhere — Mark Dolson
• 1982Tex — Hitchhiker
• 1982The Sender — John Doe #83
• 1982The Soldier — Bombmaker / Faux-Cleaning Lady
• Great Performances — March Hare

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2012That Guy... Who Was in That Thing — Self
• 2004Dogville Confessions — Self