Raoul ganeev biography of barack

ACTORS

*Raoul Ganeev

Not all actors have a history as colorful as Raoul Ganeev. Once a soldier in the Red Army, the Soviet-born actor defected on a 1991 tour of Canada – in Saskatoon of all places.

‘I knew nothing about Canada.

I thought Canada was like the u.s. I knew it was an independent country, but I thought it was basically the same.

Raoul ganeev biography of barack

Now I am here in Canada and I know it’s a completely different country with a different accent, eh?’

The classically trained actor found work initially delivering pizzas, then as a Russian dialect coach and as the Russian consultant on Vancouver-shot productions with Soviet scenes.

Ironically, he acted in a variety of military roles, including that of a Siberian Gulag guard on The X-Files. ‘I can’t help it if I look good in an officer’s uniform,’ he says.

Ganeev gives credit for his love of acting to his mother, who worked as a tv director.

In fact, Ganeev’s ultimate goals involve being be