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.
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Born
Aug 11, 1950
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Known For
Acting
Movies
53 acting
0 crew
Popularity
1.0
Known For
Spider-Man 3
2007
as Mr. Ditkovitch
Spider-Man 2
2004
as Mr. Ditkovitch
Angels & Demons
2009
as Cardinal Petrov
The Name of the Rose
1986
as Severinus
Air Force One
1997
as Andrei Kolchak
2010
1984
as Maxim Brailovsky
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
as General Borschevsky
Reagan
2024
as B.E. Kertchman
October Sky
1999
as Ike Bykovsky
Being There
1979
as Karpatov
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