Pavel Lychnikoff

Pavel Lychnikoff (born February 16, 1967 in Moscow), also credited as Pasha D. Lychnikoff, is a Russian television, film and theatre actor, who lives and works in the United States.

Life and work

Pavel Lychnikoff attended the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (formerly known as GITIS) in Moscow. In the early 1990s he moved to the United States. According to Lychnikoff's short biography on his IMDb-profile, he arrived at the John F. Kennedy International Airport with five dollars in his trouser pocket and could only speak a few words of English before he landed in Los Angeles.^[1] Since that time he appeared in many TV-movies and -series and feature films. Pavel Lychnikoff is noted for his roles as the telegraph operator Blazanov in HBO's Deadwood series and as Russian mobster Vadim Youchenko in the movie Trade.

Pavel Lychnikoff furthermore plays theatre in the USA and in Russia. His self-written play The Shelter, which he also directed, was nominated for the Californian Ovation Award in five categories and Lychnikoff's performance in the play got him very good reviews by a number of critics.

Filmography

Movies

Television

• NYPD Blue (one episode, 1996) - Burnin' Love as Dimitri
• Dark Skies (one episode, 1997) - White Rabbit as Josef
• Michael Hayes (one episode, 1997) - Death and Taxes as Dubov
• Brooklyn South (one episode, 1998) - Fools Russian as Dimitri Gort
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (one episode, 1998) - A Touch of Evil
• Nash Bridges (one episode, 1998) - Power Play as Vladamir Yodka
• NYPD Blue (one episode, 2000) - Everybody Plays the Mule as John Shenkov
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one episode, 2000) - No Place Like Home as Monk
• Big Apple (six Episodes, 2001) - as Mitya
• The Agency (one episode, 2002) - The Understudy as Russian Mob Boss
• Alias (one episode, 2002) - Passage (Part 1) as Zoran Sokolov
• Without a Trace (two episodes, 2002) - Midnight Sun and He Saw, She Saw as Prisoner
• CSI: Miami (one episode, 2003) - Evidence of Things Unseen as Victor Ratsch
• She Spies (one episode, 2003) - Crossed Out as Bar Manager
• Threat Matrix (one episode, 2003) - Cold Cash as Konstantin Noskeno
• 10-8: Officers on Duty (one episode, 2003) - Lucy in the Sky as Raymond Castoff
• Deadwood (sixteen episodes, 2005–2006) - as Blazanov
• The Shield (one episode, 2006) - Trophy as Mikula Popovich
• CSI: NY (one episode, 2007) - Past Imperfect as Yuri Sokov
• Chuck (one episode, 2008) - Chuck vs. The Undercover Lover as Victor Federov
• Leverage (one episode, 2009) - The Ice Man Job as Head Goon
• Lie to me (one episode, 2009) - Grievous Bodily Harm as Jones
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (one episode, 2010) - Ace as Mr. Brooks / Anton Petrov

References

External links

• Pavel Lychnikoff at the Internet Movie Database
• Pavel Lychnikoff at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)