Anatol Yusef

Anatol Yusef is an English actor of stage, film and television who began working as a teenager, with early television parts in Jeeves and Wooster, Grange Hill and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and appearances in the films Batman and Aliens. Born in Barking, London, he studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2000, and was a finalist for the BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Award. Straight out of drama school he won a role in Fred Schepisi's Last Orders (2001), playing the younger version of Bob Hoskins's character Ray. He became a resident company member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his Cornwall in King Lear drew praise from critic Nicholas de Jongh, and he is best known for playing Meyer Lansky in HBO's Boardwalk Empire and for Channel 4's BAFTA-nominated Southcliffe. His stage work includes Mercutio at the Birmingham Rep and roles in Hamlet and The Winter's Tale.