Oleg Taktarov
Known For
Acting
Born
1967-08-26 in Arzamas-16, USSR (Sarov, Russia)
Biography
Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Такта́ров; born August 26, 1967) is a retired Russian mixed martial artist and actor. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. Taktarov was the UFC 6 tournament champion and holds notable wins over Marco Ruas and David "Tank" Abbott. Taktarov is known for being exceptionally calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic Sambo take-downs. All of Taktarov's losses were by knockout or decision, Taktarov was never submitted in an MMA fight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Taktarov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Viggo Drantyev
JAG
as Russian Officer
Predators
as Nikolai
Dr. Driver
Den of Thieves
as Alexi
National Treasure
as Shippen
Bad Boys II
as Josef
Alias
as Gordei Volkov
Upon the Magic Roads
as general
15 Minutes
as Oleg Razgul
Miami Vice
as Russian Security
Air Force One
as Prison Guard
We Own the Night
as Pavel Lubyarsky
Total Force
as Boris
The Way
as Polkovnik Dilov
The Man from Toronto
as The Man from Moscow
Righteous Kill
as Yevgeny Mugalat
1992
as Titus
Red Deer Hunting
as Viktor "Kamaz" Svinyagin
The Machine
as Train Igor