Andrew Divoff

Venezuelan actor and producer

Born

2 July 1955, Anzoátegui

Citizenship

Venezuela

Occupation

actor, stunt performer, film actor, television actor

Films here

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Andrew Daniel Divoff (born July 2, 1955) is a Venezuelan actor and producer. Divoff has played many villains in film and on television, including drug cartel leaders, terrorists, and organized crime bosses, though he is best known for playing the evil Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest in the first two Wishmaster films. Other noteworthy film and television roles include the villains Luis Cali in Toy Soldiers, Cherry Ganz in Another 48 Hrs., Ernesto Mendoza in A Low Down Dirty Shame, Boris Bazylev in Air Force One, M (Mephistopheles) in Faust: Love of the Damned, Ivan Sarnoff in CSI: Miami, Mikhail Bakunin in Lost, and Karakurt in The Blacklist.

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Faith Minton
• Kathy Long
• Marie Matiko
• Sung Kang
• Karl Yune
• James Hong
• Musetta Vander
• Jimmy Nickerson

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q465628 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.