Igor Jijikine

Igor Jijikine is a Russian-American actor who works in Los Angeles and Moscow, the city where he was born. He studied drama and acrobatics from 1983 to 1988, and his stage work took him to the Moscow State Circus and to Las Vegas shows including Donn Arden's Jubilee and Cirque du Soleil's Mystere. His directors have included Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and J. J. Abrams, and in Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) he played Colonel Dovchenko, the leader of a Soviet commando team. That film and The Tourist were his most commercially successful. He also appeared in the cutscenes of the video games Emperor: Battle for Dune, Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge, and modeled as a Soviet soldier for the cover of Red Alert 2. He was honored as a Master of Sports in Russia.