Daniel Vivian | |
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Born |
Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
17 June 1963
Occupation | Actor, writer, film producer, |
Years active | 1997–present |
Daniel Vivian (born 1963) is a British actor of Serbian origin. He works internationally.
Daniel Vivian began acting with Bosnian film director Pjer Zalica in experimental short films. He later appeared in a one-man show which he took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
His debut was as one of the Russian thugs in John Landis' Blues Brothers 2000, followed by X-Men. His first American TV appearance was in CBS' Falcone as an Ahmed Alia. He was cast as Vinnie, the brutal mercenary, in cult film War Games: At the End of the Day by Cosimo Alemà, shot on the location in Italy. Then, he played Dragan Ilic in Zombie Massacre, a horror film based on the video game, followed by his debut on Italian TV in Un passo dal cielo, as guest star, playing the Russian mastermind Nikolaj Yelisev. Vivian co-produced indie feature film Evidence of Existence, playing a thoughtful mobster, Manon. In 2013 he narrates the documentary Smash & Grab by award winning British director Havana Marking. In the following year he appears in two feature films: The Perfect Husband and Morning Star. In Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope, he plays Domen, the Pope's butler.