Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1950-08-11 (Age: 76)
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Elya Baskin
Biography
Baskin was born in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin. He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. Baskin immigrated to the United States in 1976. He has built a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as a Russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a Russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production. He is also a regular on the long-running Internet program "Outlaw Radio" hosted by Matt Alan, where he makes amusing commentary on contemporary topics, and does comedic interaction with fellow actor Richard Tyson and author Burl Barer, among many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elya Baskin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (53)
Guys' Night in The Thing
2025
Reagan
2024An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
I Love Us
2021
Legacy
2020
Supervized
2019
Hit Me
2019
Chicanery
2017
The Hive
2015
Silent Screams
2015
Jimmy P.
2013
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
2010
God's Smile
2009
