Yevgeni Nikolayevich Lazarev (Belarusian: Яўген Мікалаевіч Лазараў; Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Ла́зарев; 31 March 1937 – 18 November 2016), also credited as Eugene Lazarev, was a Russian-born American actor. He was born in Minsk.

Biography

He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, and played in the Riga Russian Drama Theatre and Mayakovsky Theatre.

In the 1990s, he emigrated to the US, and later appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including The Saint, The Sum of All Fears, Lord of War, and Iron Man 2 (as Anton Vanko), as well as in TV series such as The West Wing (Episode: The Lame Duck Congress), Alias, and 24.

He was a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting of Los Angeles and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Filmography

• Vasily Surikov (1959)
• Crime and Punishment (1970)
• Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
• Queen of the Gypsies (1975)
• Private Life (1982)
• Stalin (1992) TV movie
• Ice Runner (1993)
• The Saint (1997)
• Hamilton (1998)
• The West Wing (2000) TV series
• The Quickie (2001)
• Alias (2001) TV series
• 24 Season 1 (2002) TV series
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
• ER (2002) TV series
• Duplex (2003)
• Lord of War (2005)
• The Turkish Gambit (2005)
• The Unit (2006) TV series
• The Nine (2006) TV series
• The Onion Movie (2008)
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
• Driven to Kill (2009)
• Iron Man 2 (2010)

Video games

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) — Imran Zakhaev
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) — Imran Zakhaev ( Cutscene )
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) — Imran Zakhaev (flasback and intro)