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Elya Baskin
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.
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As actor
Guys' Night in The Thing
Reagan
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
I Love Us
Legacy
Hit Me
Supervized
Chicanery
The Hive
Silent Screams
Jimmy P.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Angels & Demons
God's Smile
Spider-Man 3
The Dukes
Say It in Russian
Color of the Cross
The Elder Son
Wheelmen
Spider-Man 2
Runaway Virus
Thirteen Days
October Sky
Running Red
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Air Force One
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Spy Hard