Olek Krupa
Best known for his roles as Eastern European gangsters, spies, and soldiers, Polish actor Olek Krupa has appeared in a variety of American films and TV series, ranging from the comedy sequel "Home Alone 3" to the daytime drama "As the World Turns." Though he traveled to the United States in the mid-'70s, he didn't begin his involvement with theater until returning to Poland. In 1981, he moved to the States and acted in productions at New York's Public Theatre, including "My Uncle Sam" and "The Ballad of Soapy Smith." His first narrative feature appearance came with a bit part in the steamy "Nine 1/2 Weeks" followed by guest spots on such TV crime dramas as "Miami Vice." He played an atypical role as renowned Austrian actor-director Erich von Stroheim in the miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts," while shifting into mobster territory the same year in the Coen brothers' Prohibition-era "Miller's Crossing." In "Home Alone 3," he is a Russian spy pursuing a top-secret microchip, and he takes chase again in "Behind Enemy Lines," this time as a Serbian soldier hounding plane-wrecked American pilot Owen Wilson. He has appeared as various nefarious characters on episodes of "Law & Order" and as a Maltese police inspector on "As the World Turns." In the 2010 Angelina Jolie-starring espionage action film, "Salt," he stepped up to a loftier position as the Russian president.
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Olek Krupa
Filmography
Movies
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18% |
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Reagan | Mikhail Gorbachev (Character) | $26.5M | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Freestyle | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
47% |
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Bel Canto | Fyodorov (Character) | $79.9K | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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I'm Obsessed With You: But You've Got to Leave Me Alone | Stanislaw (Character) | - | 2014 |
37% |
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Admission | Polokov (Character) | $18.0M | 2013 |
62% |
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Salt | Russian President Matveyev (Character) | - | 2010 |
78% |
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Burn After Reading | Krapotkin (Character) | $60.3M | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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The Fifth Patient | Khodorov (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | StarDust | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
73% |
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The Italian Job | Mashkov (Character) | $106.1M | 2003 |
37% |
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Behind Enemy Lines | Lokar (Character) | $58.9M | 2001 |
83% |
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Thirteen Days | Andrei Gromyko (Character) | $34.6M | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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No Vacancy | Leonard (Character) | - | 1999 |
35% |
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Blue Streak | Jean LaFleur (Character) | $68.2M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | O.K. Garage | Yannick (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Stardust | Karol Wasacz (Character) | - | 1998 |
35% |
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Home Alone 3 | Peter Beaupre (Character) | $30.7M | 1997 |
20% |
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Kicked in the Head | Borko (Character) | $102.7K | 1997 |
43% |
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Eraser | Sergei Ivanovich Petrofsky (Character) | $101.3M | 1996 |
12% |
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Fair Game | Zhukov (Character) | $11.2M | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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My Antonia | Krajiek (Character) | - | 1995 |
67% |
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Mac | Polowski (Character) | $466.8K | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ivory Hunters | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
50% | No Score Yet | Far From Poland | Jan (Character) | - | 1984 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 50% | New Amsterdam | Niku Osheyevsky (Guest Star) | 2021 |
96% | 94% | The Americans | General Vijktor Zhukov (Guest Star) | 2013 2017 |
95% | 89% | Elementary | Fyodor Ukhov (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Madam Secretary | President Pavel Ostrov (Guest Star) | 2015 |
57% | 92% | Forever | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
92% | 78% | Person of Interest | Ivan Yogorov (Guest Star) | 2011 |
96% | 93% | White Collar | Alec (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Blue Bloods | Maximilian Gruschenko (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life on Mars | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
62% | 50% | New Amsterdam | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
89% | 88% | Monk | Elmer Gratnik (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Alex Strizkopf (Guest Star) | 2000 |
93% | 95% | Oz | Yuri Kosygin (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 1996 1999 |
0% | No Score Yet | Dellaventura | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New York Undercover | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
71% | 89% | Miami Vice | Vater Wajda (Guest Star) | 1987 |