Zeljko Ivanek filmography and biography
Date of birth: 15 August 1957, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zeljko Ivanek trivia
- Tony award nominations: 1983, Featured Actor in a Play, Brighton Beach
Memoirs (nom); 1992, Featured Actor in a Play, Two Shakespearean Actors
(nom.) Drama Desk Awards: 1992, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play,
Two Shakespearean Actors (nom;)
- Drama Desk Award, 1982, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Cloud 9.
Villager Award, 1982, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Cloud 9.
- His name is pronounced JEL-ko EE-vah-NEK.
- The Slovenian-born actor graduated from the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art in 1980.
- Drama Desk Awards: 1992, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Two
Shakespearean Actors (nom;)
- Twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role -
Play): in 1983 for "Brighton Beach Memoirs," and in 1992 for "Two
Shakespearean Actors."
- He is frequently cast as political or business middlemen of corrupt,
shady natures who often end up stabbing somebody in the back.
- Earned his third Tony Award nomination for "Best Performance by a
Leading Actor in a Play" in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" in 2006.
- In an interview for AOL television, Zeljko said his first name is
pronounced Jel-ko.