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Dimitri Diatchenko (April 11, 1968 – April 21, 2020) was an American actor.

Dimitri Diatchenko
Diatchenko at the premiere of True Blood Season 5 in 2012
Born	(1968-04-11)April 11, 1968 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	April 21, 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 52) Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–2017

Life and career

Diatchenko was born April 11, 1968, in Oakland, California.[1] He was a native of San Francisco, California and a first-generation American; his father is Ukrainian and his mother was of Greek and Swedish descent.[2]^{[failed verification]} Diatchenko began classical guitar lessons at the age of seven. Two years later, he gave his first solo classical guitar recital. During and after his studies, Dimitri Diatchenko won several medals in guitar competitions including the Stotsenberg International Classical Guitar Competition or the World Championships of Performing Arts.[3][4] He released four solo guitar CDs.[5]

Diatchenko studied martial arts from the age of seven. He earned black belts in both Tae Kwon Do and Kenpo Karate and studied boxing and arnis. During the early 1990s, Dimitri Diatchenko competed as a heavyweight in several national championships, winning many medals in full contact fighting, including the US Olympic Festival, the WTF National Championships and The 1991 World Invitational in Miami, Florida.

Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts where Matt LeBlanc also attended at the same time and later Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. There he was a scholarship music student, majored in classical guitar, and received a Bachelor of Music degree. After transferring to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Dimitri Diatchenko continued with acting and music studies in the Masters program.[6] In April 1996, as Dimitri Diatchenko was graduating, he was cast in Ridley Scott's 1997 action film G.I. Jane and landed a small role as trainee; following this, Dimitri Diatchenko relocated to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. In Los Angeles, he also taught guitar privately and performed regularly as a soloist and ensemble player.

Dimitri Diatchenko made appearances in several television series. After appearing in the action series Alias, he was in the films Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Get Smart.

For his performance as Ukrainian tour guide Yuri in the film Chernobyl Diaries, Diatchenko received positive reviews from some film critics.[7][8][9]

In addition to acting, Diatchenko worked as voice actor. He lent his voice to a lot of video and computer games. His first performance in a video game came in 2005 with additional voices for Medal of Honor: European Assault.

Animal cruelty charge

In 2015, Diatchenko pleaded no contest to animal cruelty after allegedly cooking and eating his ex-girlfriend's pet rabbit. He was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to perform sixty days of community labor and undergo forty-eight hours of counselling.[10][11][12]

Death

Diatchenko died in his home in Daytona Beach, Florida, on April 21, 2020, ten days after his 52nd birthday. He was discovered two days later after a wellness check initiated by concerned relatives.[13] According to Diatchenko's agent, the death appeared to be a heart attack or complications from an electric shock Diatchenko had sustained at work a week before his death.[14] An autopsy later revealed that there was a large amount of fentanyl and Valium in his system and the medical examiner listed the official cause of death as an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Goiterboy	Richter	Short
	G.I. Jane	Trainee
1999	The Settlement		Uncredited
2001	Norman J. Lloyd	Norman J. Lloyd	Short
2006	The Genius Club	Jesse The Mechanic
	Miriam	Alexi
	Love Made Easy	Poker Player
2007	The Longest Yard Sale	Grammy
2008	Remarkable Power	Ivan
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Russian Suit 1 / Russian Soldier
	Get Smart	Russian Underling
2010	Burning Palms	Bob
2012	Chernobyl Diaries	Yuri
2013	Company of Heroes	Ivan Puzharski	Direct-to-video
	Clubhouse	Misha
2016	They're Watching	Vladimir Filat	Final film role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Total Security	Bodyguard	Episode: "Pilot"
	Diagnosis: Murder	Thug #1 / Carl	Episode: "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste"
1998	Timecop	Sergeant	Episode: "D.O.A."
1999	Walker, Texas Ranger	Robert Jackson	Episode: "Power Angels"
	Pensacola: Wings of Gold	Anton Marisovich	Episode: "True Stories"
2000	V.I.P.		Episode: "Val Point Blank"
	18 Wheels of Justice	Alexei	Episode: "Smuggler's Blues", Uncredited
2001	The Wild Thornberrys	Elder Beaver	Voice, Episode: "All Work and No Play"[16]
	18 Wheels of Justice	Sergei Zukaross	Episode: "Hot Cars, Fast Women"
2004	Alias	Vilmos	Episode: "The Frame"
2005	Wanted	Darsikska	Episode: "The Wild Bunch"
2006	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	Waiter	Episode: "Odd Couples"
	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	Attendant 1	Episode: "No So Suite 16"
2007	Criminal Minds	Lyov Lysowsky	Episode: "Honor Among Thieves"
	Shark	Gavin Lundy	Episode: "Fall from Grace"
	Burn Notice	Boris	Episode: "Pilot"
2008	The Riches	Russian #2	Episode: "The Lying King"
	My Own Worst Enemy	Gold Teeth	Episode: "Breakdown"
	Without a Trace	Yuri Ovsenko	Episode: "Push Comes to Shove"
2009	CSI: Miami	Andrei	Episode: "Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing"
	Family Guy	Russian Dinosaur / Russian Guard #2	Voice, Episode: "Spies Reminiscent of Us"
2010	General Hospital	Babak	3 episodes, Uncredited
2011	Sons of Anarchy	Head Russian	2 episodes
2012	How I Met Your Mother	Arvydas	Episode: "46 Minutes"
	Perception	Alexi Topaloff	Episode: "Faces"
2013	Project: SERA	Zakir	Episode: "Immunity"
2014	Bones	Dimitri Romanov	Episode: "The Master in the Slop"
	2 Broke Girls	Yuri	Episode: "And the Kilt Trip"
2016	Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street	Green Beret	Episode: "Gortimer vs. White Hat"
	Murder in the First	Janko Kolar	Episode: "Rise of the Phoenix"
2017	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Vulko / Lone Knight / Lead Knight	Voice, 2 episodes[16]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Medal of Honor: European Assault
	From Russia with Love
	Quake 4	Sledge
2006	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2
	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault	Paramilitary Leader
2008	Iron Man	Boris Bullski / Titanium Man, Russian Soldiers	[16]
	Fracture
	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	Cmdr. Oleg Vodnik
	Call of Duty: World at War	The Commissar	[16]
	Aion: The Tower of Eternity
2009	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising	Cmdr. Oleg Vodnik
	Resistance: Retribution	Cloven Leader / Cloven 2
	Wolfenstein	Golden Dawn Agent / Wehrmacht Officer / Black Market Agent
	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	Serbian Soldiers	[16]
	Rogue Warrior	Russian Soldier 3 / SEAL Captain	[16]
2010	Iron Man 2	General Valentin Shatalov / Roxxon Soldiers	[16]
	Singularity
	Crackdown 2
	Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions	Sandman	[16]
	Call of Duty: Black Ops	Spetsnaz Operative
2011	Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception	Serbian Soldier	[16]
2012	Ghost Recon: Future Soldier	Evgeny Petrakov
	Call of Duty: Black Ops II
2013	Tomb Raider	Solarii
	Metro: Last Light	Secretary General Moskvin
	The Last of Us
2015	Evolve	Markov	[16]
	Battlefield Hardline
	Fallout 4	Vadim Bobrov
	Rise of the Tomb Raider
2016	XCOM 2	Soldier
	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
	Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Awards and nominations

Music

• 2003: Instrumental and Acting Grand Champion of the World at the World Championships of Performing Arts[17]

References

External links

• Dimitri Diatchenko at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Dimitri Diatchenko

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[es] Dimitri Diatchenko

Dimitri Diatchenko (San Francisco, Estados Unidos, 11 de abril de 1968 - Daytona Beach, 21 de abril de 2020)[1] fue un actor y cantante estadounidense de origen ucraniano conocido por su fuerte acento ruso, que le ha permitido interpretar a varios personajes de nacionalidad rusa tanto en series de televisión como en videojuegos.

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[ru] Дьяченко, Дмитрий (актёр)

Дмитрий Дьяченко (англ. Dimitri Diatchenko; 11 апреля 1968, Сан-Франциско — 21 апреля 2020, Дейтона-Бич) — американский актёр и музыкант украинского происхождения.

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