Andrew Divoff | |
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Divoff at AdventureCon in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 13, 2008
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Born |
Andrew Daniel Divoff July 2, 1955 San Tomé, Venezuela |
Occupation | Actor, stuntman |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse(s) | Raissa Danilova (29 February 1992–?) (divorced) |
Andrew Daniel Divoff (Russian: Андрей Ди́вов, correctly transcribed as Divov; born July 2, 1955) is a Venezuelan film, television actor and stuntman, best known for playing the evil Djinn in the first two Wishmaster films and the villains Cherry Ganz in Another 48 Hrs., Ernesto Mendoza in A Low Down Dirty Shame, Boris Bazylev in Air Force One, Ivan Sarnoff in CSI: Miami and Mikhail Bakunin in Lost.
Divoff was born in San Tomé, Venezuela. His father is Russian and his mother is Venezuelan. He lived five years in Vilassar de Mar (Spain), between 1973 and 1977, feeling himself to be Catalan too. He currently lives in the United States. Divoff can speak nine languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Catalan, Portuguese, Swedish and Russian. He used to speak Romanian but forgot the language when he had no one with whom to speak it.