Alec Utgoff | |
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 Alec Utgoff At Wales Comic-Con Homecoming Wrexham 2022 | |
| Born | Oleg Vladimirovich
Utgoff[1] 1 March 1986 |
| Alma mater | Drama Centre London[2] |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Alec Utgoff (Ukrainian: Олег Володимирович Утгоф; born 1 March 1986, Kyiv, USSR)[3] is a Kyiv-born English actor. He pursued acting and graduated from the prestigious Drama Centre London. He is known for playing the role of Aleksandr Borovsky in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Dr. Alexei in the third season of Stranger Things. His other notable roles include Alexi in San Andreas (2015),[1][4] Dmitri in Mortdecai (2015)[5] and Yuri/Dimitri in The Wrong Mans (2015).[6]
Utgoff was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) to Roza, a musical conductor, and Volodymyr, a heart surgeon who is an honored doctor of modern-day Ukraine.[1] In 1996, at the age of 10, he moved to London, England. His brother Alan is an economist and his parents still live in Kyiv.[2] Ethnically he is half Ukrainian, half Ossetian with some ethnic German ancestry on his father's side.[7][8] He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Tourist | Fedka | |
| 2010 | Over the Hills | Aaron | short |
| 2011 | The Why Men | Torpedo | short |
| 2012 | The Seasoning House | Josif | |
| 2013 | Common People | Veiko | |
| 2013 | Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz | Kostya | |
| 2013 | Legacy | Rhykov | TV movie |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Aleksandr Borovsky | |
| 2015 | Mortdecai | Dmitri | |
| 2015 | San Andreas | Alexi | |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | A400 Crewman | |
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Niki | |
| 2020 | Never Gonna Snow Again | Zhenia |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Spooks | Chief Hacker | 1 episode |
| 2013–2014 | The Wrong Mans | Yuri & Dimitri | 6 episodes |
| 2015 | River | Sasha Mischenko | 1 episode |
| 2016 | Power Monkeys | Alec | 6 episodes |
| 2019 | Stranger Things | Alexei (Smirnoff) | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Dracula | Abramoff | 1 episode |
| 2022 | The Lazarus Project | Rudy | 3 episodes |
| Slow Horses | Arkady Pashkin | 4 episodes |
