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Within Vinony's link graph, Elya Baskin is referenced by 87 other articles, and connects out to 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Moscow and Russian.
Vinony files it under 1950 births, 20th-century American male actors and 21st-century American Jews.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
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…
Known for
- Dance With Me — Sasha2026
- Guys' Night in The Thing — Voice of Mr. Ditkovich2025
- Reagan — B.E. Kertchman2024
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose — Self2022
- The Rookie: Feds — Consul General Viktar Saroka2022
- I Love Us — Ira Prince2021
- Legacy — Boranovic2020
- Hit Me — Voice of Mr. Ditkovich2019
- Supervized — Brian2019
- Jangan Benci Cintaku2018
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Estonia
- Active from
- 1929-06-17
- Active to
- 2015-03-11
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1950-08-11
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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