Elya Baskin
Biography
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...
Also Known As
Elya Zalmanovich Baskin , Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin, الیا باسکین, Илья Баскин, И. Баскин
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Elya Baskin's Movies
Spider-Man 2
25 Jun 2004
Spider-Man 3
01 May 2007
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
28 Jun 2011
Angels & Demons
20 Apr 2009
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
02 May 1997
The Name of the Rose
24 Sept 1986
Air Force One
25 Jul 1997
October Sky
19 Feb 1999
Being There
19 Dec 1979
2010
06 Dec 1984
Thirteen Days
25 Dec 2000
Spy Hard
24 May 1996
DeepStar Six
13 Jan 1989
Moscow on the Hudson
06 Apr 1984
Vice Versa
25 Feb 1988
Jimmy P.
11 Sept 2013
American Pop
13 Feb 1981
Raise the Titanic
01 Aug 1980
Reagan
29 Aug 2024
The Hive
14 Sept 2015
Elya Baskin's TV Shows
Criminal Minds
22 Sept 2005
Homeland
02 Oct 2011
Heroes
25 Sept 2006
Castle
09 Mar 2009
Chicago Med
17 Nov 2015
MacGyver
23 Sept 2016
MacGyver
29 Sept 1985
Quantum Leap
26 Mar 1989
Alias
30 Sept 2001
The West Wing
22 Sept 1999
Walker, Texas Ranger
21 Apr 1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
21 Apr 1993
Rizzoli & Isles
12 Jul 2010
Cold Case
28 Sept 2003
Roseanne
18 Oct 1988
The Closer
13 Jun 2005
Madam Secretary
21 Sept 2014
Madam Secretary
21 Sept 2014
Mad About You
23 Sept 1992
Northern Exposure
12 Jul 1990