Ravil Isyanov, a Soviet-born American character actor who appeared in movies like Defiance, K-19: The Widowmaker and Transformers: Dark of the Moon and in numerous TV series, most recently playing …
NCIS: Los AngelesIsyanov was born in Voskresensk, Russia on Aug. 20, 1962. Drawn to performing arts from a young age, he enrolled in Perm Institute of Culture to study directing after graduating from high school in 1980. His studies were interrupted in 1982 when he left to complete a two-year mandatory military service in the Soviet Air Force and was stationed in the Russian Far East.
, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, which filmed in Moscow. He relocated to the UK in early 1991, where, over the course of several years, he appeared in various TV shows and films, did a season of Russian plays at Theatr Clwyd and toured with the English Shakespeare Company, both nationally and internationally.
In 1998, Isyanov moved to Los Angeles. He worked steadily in film and TV since then and has a total of 77 credits to his name, often playing characters of Russian descent. The last projects he completed before his death were the upcoming movies, which are currently in post-production. Other notable film credits include
Defiance, The Good German, K-19: The Widowmaker, Along Came a Spider, The Jackal, The Saint, Hamlet, Golden Eye, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, StalinThe Americans
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