
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
1962-01-01
Place of Birth
Popovitsa, Plovdiv, People's Republic of Bulgaria [now Bulgaria]
Nikolai Tsankov
Biography
Nikolai started acting as a child in Eastern Europe. He later became a member of the Bulgarian National Theatre, and starred in numerous features produced for TV and the big screen in Bulgaria, Russia, and Germany. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1990, Nikolai continued to act on stage and in front of the camera. With the advent of the Internet and personal computing, he fell in love with technology and began a new journey in the digital world. Nikolai "paused" acting for about 15 years while building a prosperous career as an Information Network Engineer with leading hi-tech companies, such as I.B.M. and Google. In 2016, Nikolai decided to return to New York and to acting with much passion and appreciation. He is proud of his successful comeback, and enjoys working on the sets of various film and TV productions.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
A House of Dynamite as Russian General #2
2024Elsbeth as Fisnik Raapi
2023The Good Ship Murder as Yuval Goldmann
2023The Irrational as Cosmo
2023The Kill Room as Andrei
2022Litvinenko as Boris Berezovsky
2022Little Ukraine as Vlad
2022First Love as Father Alex
2021NCIS: Hawaiʻi as Lev Fedorov
2020Confetti as Mr. Loran
2019For All Mankind as Colonel Vidor Kolikoff
2019The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot as The Russian
2018Manifest as Marko Valeriev
2018Échappé as Lionidze
2015Mr. Robot as Russian Oligarch
2014Gotham as Boris
2013The Americans as Kirill
1999Third Watch as Mr. Adel
1990Law & Order as David Dementev
1989Marital Jokes
1987The Thirteenth Bride of the Prince as Boyan
1986Васко да Гама от село Рупча as Атанасов - втори помощник капитан
1985Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters as Kalugerche-stranniche
1985Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing as Kalugerche-stranniche









