![]() As of August 2019, Amazon Prime is airing worldwide the Israeli hit show "The Beauty and the Baker", with Ivanir playing the part of Zvika Granot. In 2017, he played a Holocaust survivor in the critically acclaimed German-language film "Bye Bye Germany" and recurred on Amazon's "Transparent". The season was nominated for the SAG Awards and for the Emmy's. In 2016 Ivanir had a recurring role on Homeland as Russian intelligence agent Ivan Krupin. Ivanir has had over 60 guest star and guest lead roles on television shows such as 24, Monk, CSI: NY, Law & Order, Fringe, CSI: Miami, Nikita and Royal Pains. Ivanir played Daniel Lerner, the first violin of the string quartet, whose other members are played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken. The film was voted as one of the New York Daily News 10 top films of the year. His biggest part to date was on the critically acclaimed A Late Quartet, released from RKO pictures in the United States, in fall 2012. In 2011, he appeared in Universal's Johnny English Reborn, Universal's Big Miracle and 360. Ivanir held a pivotal role in Robert De Niro's 2006 film, The Good Shepherd, for which he won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, later landing a role in Barry Levinson's What Just Happened, this time acting alongside De Niro. He worked with Spielberg twice thereafter, first for a cameo appearance in The Terminal, then again for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Ivanir's first major film role was in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning epic Schindler's List, where he played Marcel Goldberg. He later moved to London to study under Philippe Gaulier at the Complicité. Within two years, Gesher became Israel's top theatrical outfit and was hailed by the London Times as "one of the six best theatre companies in the world." Using his knowledge of multiple languages, Ivanir translated and adapted eight foreign-language plays into Hebrew for the company. Ivanir played a Soviet army serviceman, Mikhail Balyonev.įollowing his studies with Nativ, Ivanir joined the Gesher Theater, a Tel Aviv-based company composed of emigrants from the former USSR. The film was a Canadian-Israeli-American co-production filmed in Israel with an international cast. After leaving the circus, Mark entered into formal theatrical training under famed Israeli director Nissan Nativ, performing at the Cameri Theater and Israeli Opera.ĭuring this time, Ivanir had his first film role in the 1988 action film Iron Eagle II, directed by Sidney J. He completed two years in a circus school, traveled throughout Europe performing on the streets as a clown, and ended up working in the Parisian Cirque Pawelles. He briefly studied medicine, before deciding to a life in the performing arts. After completing his service, he turned down a job offer from Mossad. His national service in the Israeli Defense Forces saw him involved in Operation Joshua, one of two operations by the IDF to bring Ethiopian Jews from Sudanese refugee camps to Israel. He was raised in a multilingual household speaking Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Russian, and later learning English. His maternal grandfather, Meshulem Surkis, was a Yiddish writer, journalist, actor, and theatre critic, who was a well known activist in the Yiddish cultural world. His father, Alexander, was an English teacher, and his mother, Malka, a German teacher. His family emigrated to Israel in 1972, and settled in the Pardes Katz neighbourhood of Bnei Brak. Ivanir was born in Chernovtsi (now Chernivtsi), Ukrainian SSR. ![]() He is fluent in six languages, a skill often shown off in his performances. Mark Alexandrovich Ivanir ( Hebrew: מארק איווניר Ukrainian: Марк Олександрович Іванір Russian: Марк Александрович Иванир) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli actor known for his character roles on American film and television.
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