Ilia Volok was born in Kiev, Ukraine where he lived for the first half of his life. He is a graduate of Moscow Art Theatre School and a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. Most recent credits: The Palace, directed by Roman Polanski, HBO’s Full Circle, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and Paramount’s Self Reliance by Jake Johnson. TV: NCIS, Apple TV’s The Morning Show, BET’s Diarra from Detroit; Netflix animation series Agent Elvis starring Matthew McConaughey and Don Cheadle. Theater: The Gaaga at the Arlekin Players Theater, Yaacobi and Leidental at the Odyssey Theatre, The Orchard at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and The Revisionist by Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Ilia’s one-man show Diary of a Madman won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Solo Performance. In New York, Diary of a Madman had two successful back-to-back off-Broadway runs, and has since been presented in Dubai, Paris, Kiev, Zurich, and London. Films: Gemini Man opposite Will Smith, directed by Ang Lee, Air Force One, Oliver Stone’s U-Turn, Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones 4, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Soloist, Water for Elephants, Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol, Abduction, GI JOE 2, The Immigrant, opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard, Pawn Sacrifice, and Hunter Killer, opposite Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. Last October, Ilia received the NOHO Cinefest Best Actor award for his portrayal of Dark in the independent feature Balloon Animal.