Birth Date: | 31 July 1975 |
Birth Place: | Tarzana, California |
Education: | Guildford School of Acting |
Michael Vladimir Klesic (born July 31, 1975) is an American actor.
Klesic was born in Tarzana, California. He was raised mostly in Los Angeles and attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California. He graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in England.
His first roles came to him when he was just 18 playing bit parts in Clueless, Dangerous Minds, and a football player in Forrest Gump.[1] In 1988, Klesic was cast as Henry Evans in The Good Son. The film was shelved due to lack of funding and Macaulay Culkin was cast in the part in the 1993 film.[2]
He then retired from acting to work behind the scenes on a number of films and TV shows. After graduating from the Guildford School of Acting in 2003, he acted in A Wonderful Night in Split, which was directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić. He went on to work on Children of Men with Alfonso Cuaron and was cast as a people smuggler in Murphy's Law.
1995 | Clueless | Baggy Skater | Uncredited | |
1996 | Multiplicity | Carpenter | ||
2004 | A Wonderful Night in Split | Steve | ||
2005 | Munich | Russian Athlete | Uncredited | |
2006 | Screaming Blue Murder | Rocky Rock | ||
2006 | Children of Men | Rado | ||
2006 | Summer Love | Voice | Uncredited | |
2007 | Outlanders | Mikhail | ||
2009 | From Mexico with Love | The Accountant | ||
2020 | Burning Dog | Igor |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1994 | Weird Science | Buddy | Episode: "Killer Party" | |
1994 | Models Inc. | Jack | Episode: "Bad Moon Rising" | |
1995 | NYPD Blue | Greek Dancer | Episode: "A.D.A. Sipowicz" | |
2003 | Days That Shook the World | Volney Wilson | Episode: "First Nuclear Reaction/Chernobyl" | |
2005 | Stanislaw Starowleyski | Television film | ||
2006 | Seconds from Disaster | Cpt. Larry Wheaton | Episode: "Washington Air Crash" | |
2007 | Rough Diamond | Reception Guard | Episode: "Old Gold" | |
2007 | Murphy's Law | Milos | 2 episodes | |
2008 | Spooks | Andre Borodin | Episode #7.8 | |
2009 | Jarek | Episode: "Buried" | ||
2013 | The Blacklist | Serbian Terrorist | Episode: "Pilot" | |
2013 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Kropsky | Episode: "Eye Spy" | |
2014 | Intelligence | Bearded Ukrainian | Episode: "The Grey Hat" | |
2014 | Shameless | Russian Priest | Episode: "Emily" | |
2014 | Ray Donovan | Rough Guy #2 | Episode: "Sunny" | |
2014 | Scorpion | Igor | Episode: "Talismans" | |
2015 | Fresh Off the Boat | Leather Daddy #4 | Episode: "Blind Spot" | |
2016 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Zerb Gudanya | Episode: "Terry Kitties" | |
2020 | S.W.A.T. | Timur | Episode: "Stakeout" | |
2021 | Igor Lebedev | Episode: "A Tale of Two Igors" |