Aleksander Krupa (born 18 March 1947), often credited as Olek Krupa, is a Polish actor, active in film and television roles and best known for playing villains and/or criminals, such as in Eraser, Blue Streak, Home Alone 3 and The Italian Job. He also notably portrayed a Bosnian Serb general engaged in genocide against Bosnian Muslims in 2001's Behind Enemy Lines and portrayed the President of Russia in 2010's action thriller film Salt. Krupa continued to have minor roles in many Hollywood movies, such as X-Men: First Class, Hidden Figures, and The Fate of the Furious.
Selected Filmography
- Undercover Blues (1993)
- Naked In New York (1993)
- Fair Game (1995)
- Eraser (1996)
- Kicked In The Head (1997)
- Home Alone 3 (1997)
- OK Garage (1998)
- Simply Irresistible (1999)
- Blue Streak (1999)
- Thirteen Days (2000)
- Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
- Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
- The Italian Job (2003)
- The Fifth Patient (2007)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- Whatever Works (2009)
- Salt
- X-Men: First Class (2011)
- The Dictator (2012)
- Admission
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- Bel Canto (2018)
- The Sunlit Night (2019)
Select Television
- Miami Vice (1987)
- Law & Order (1991, 1996, 1999)
- New York Undercover(1995)
- Law & Order: SVU (2000)
- As the World Turns (2001)
- Law And Order CI (2003)
- Monk (2004)
- Blue Bloods (2011)
- White Collar (2011)
- Person of Interest (2011)
- The Americans (2013-2017)
- Forever (2015)
- The Blacklist (2015)
- Madam Secretary (2015)
- MacGyver (2016)
- Divorce
- Iron Fist (2017)
- Elementary (2017)
