Zeljko Ivanek has worked in Hollywood films and television series for nearly four decades. His movies include titles such as ‘The Soldier’, ‘The Sender’, ‘Umetni Raj’, ‘Courage Under Fire’, ‘Ellen Foster’, ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’, ‘Unfaithful’, ‘Manderlay’, ‘Live Free or Die Hard’, ‘The Words’, ‘Argo’, and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.
In addition to films, Ivanek has appeared in numerous television series, including ‘The Edge of Night’, ‘American Playhouse’, ‘St. Elsewhere’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘My Brother’s Keeper’, and ‘The West Wing’.
Some of Zeljko Ivanek most significant projects with Ridley Scott include ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’. In ‘Hannibal’, Scott revisits the dark world surrounding Thomas Harris’s famous cannibalistic psychoanalyst character.
Zeljko Ivanek movies and TV shows have been significant; the actor has delivered outstanding performances over the course of four decades.
Movies
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 1982 | The Soldier | Bombmaker/ Cleaning Lady | Alberta Watson |
| 1982 | Tex | Hitchhiker | Frances Lee McCain |
| 1982 | The Sender | The Sender | Shirley Knight |
| 1984 | The Sun Also Rises | Bill Gorton | Jane Seymour |
| 1984 | Mass Appeal | Mark Dolson | Louise Latham |
| 1987 | Rachel River | Momo | Viveca Lindfors |
| 1990 | Umetni raj | Willy | Manca Kosir |
| 1991 | Aftermath: A Test of Love | Matt | Lisanne Falk |
| 1991 | Our Sons | Donald Barnes | Loyda Ramos |
| 1992 | School Ties | Mr. Cleary | Amy Locane |
| 1993 | New Year | Larry Fishkin | Jane Alexander |
| 1996 | White Squall | Sanders | Lizbeth Mackay |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Banacek | Regina Taylor |
| 1996 | Infinity | Bill Price | Patricia Arquette |
| 1996 | After Jimmy | Dr. Darren Walters | Natalija Nogulich |
| 1996 | The Associate | SEC Agent Thompkins | Bebe Neuwirth |
| 1997 | Donnie Brasco | Tim Curley | Anne Heche |
| 1997 | Julian Po | Tom Potter | Cherry Jones |
| 1997 | Ellen Foster | Educational Psychologist | Barbara Garrick |
| 1998 | Nowhere to Go | Principal Jack Walker | Jacob Smith |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | Bill Crowley | Kathleen Quinlan |
| 1999 | Dash and Lilly | Mel Berman | Bebe Neuwirth |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Dr. Whitman | Anne Suzuki |
| 2000 | Dancer in the Dark | District Attorney | Siobhan Fallon Hogan |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Dr. Cordell Doemling | Hazelle Goodman |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | Harrell | William Fichtner |
| 2001 | Crossing Jordan | Dr. Elliot McCafferty | Emy Coligado |
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Det. Dean | Michelle Monaghan |
| 2003 | Dogville | Ben | Patricia Clarkson |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Vaughn Utly | Meryl Streep |
| 2005 | Manderlay | Dr. Hector | Lauren Bacall |
| 2005 | The Inside | Teddy Bunch | Katie Finneran |
| 2005 | Hate | Actor | Rosa Arredondo |
| 2006 | The Hoax | Ralph Graves | Hope Davis |
| 2007 | Ascension Day | Master Travis | Christina Cox |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard | Molina | Mary Elizabeth Winstead |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Canadian Guy | Elizabeth Berrington |
| 2011 | Tower Heist | Director Mazin | Gabourey Sidibe |
| 2012 | The Words | Cutler | Olivia Wilde |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Donald Foite | Alice Gainer |
| 2012 | Argo | Robert Pender | Clea DuVall |
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Paulo | Helena Mattsson |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Pentagon Scientist | Jennifer Lawrence |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Desk Sergeant | Kerry Condon |
| 2020 | The Courier | McCone | Rachel Brosnahan |
| 2021 | The Last Duel | Le Coq | Jodie Comer |
As Producer
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 2001 | Laud Weiner | Producer | Marisol Nichols |
TV Shows
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 1982 | The Edge of Night | Sammy Wheaton | Lori Loughlin |
| 1983 | Great Performances | March Hare | Chita Rivera |
| 1986 | American Playhouse | George Deever | Sada Thompson |
| 1987 | St. Elsewhere | Mark Dolson | Christina Pickles |
| 1987 | Echoes in the Darkness | Vince Valaitis | Stockard Channing |
| 1990 | L.A. Law | Joel Lassen | Susan Dey |
| 1993 | Law and Order | ASA Ed Danvers/Charles Banks/Attorney Charles Banks/Phillip Swann/Richard Kaplan | S. Epatha Merkerson |
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street | ASA Ed Danvers | Melissa Leo |
| 1994 | The X-Files | Roland Fuller/Dr. Arthur Grable | Annabeth Gish |
| 1995 | My Brother’s Keeper | Dr. Hill | Veronica Cartwright |
| 1995 | Truman | Eddie Jacobson | Amelia Campbell |
| 1995 | If Not for You | Elliot Gordon | Debra Jo Rupp |
| 1995 | Murder, She Wrote | Eddie Saunders | Julie Adams |
| 1997 | Chicago Hope | Eugene Ramsey | Jayne Brook |
| 1997 | Frasier | Dr. Arnold Shaw | Peri Gilpin |
| 1997 | Millennium | Dr. Daniel ‘Danny’ Miller | Sara-Jane Redmond |
| 1997 | Total Security | Ronald Ducote | Tracey Needham |
| 1997 | C-16: FBI | Loren Bitts | Christine Tucci |
| 1997 | Ally McBeal | Judge Marshal Pink | Lisa Nicole Carson |
| 1997 | Players | Eduard Micah | Marta Martin |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Ken Mattingly | David Andrews |
| 1998 | The Rat Pack | Bobby Kennedy | Veronica Cartwright |
| 1998 | Trinity | Tim Holloway | Bonnie Root |
| 2000 | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Mann Randolph | Diahann Carroll |
| 2000 | Homicide: The Movie | ASA Ed Danvers | Michelle Forbes |
| 2000 | ER | Bruce Resnick | Maura Tierney |
| 2001 | The Job | Peter | Karyn Parsons |
| 2002 | 24 | Andre Drazen | Elisha Cuthbert |
| 2002 | The Twilight Zone | ER chief | Katherine Heigl |
| 2002 | The Practice | Assistant D.A. General Mark McGovern/ Matthew Davies/ U.S. Atty. Sanders | Lara Flynn Boyle |
| 2003 | Queens Supreme | Carl Sipple | Sarah Wayne Callies |
| 2003 | Oz | Governor James Devlin | Rita Moreno |
| 2003 | The West Wing | Steve Atwood | Allison Janney |
| 2003 | The Reagans | Michael Deaver | Mary Beth Peil |
| 2004 | Touching Evil | Ronald Hinks | Leila Johnson |
| 2004 | The Jury | Mason Garvey | Shalom Harlow |
| 2005 | NYPD Blue | Justin Deroos | Jacqueline Obradors |
| 2005 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Andrew Melton | Marg Helgenberger |
| 2006 | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Everett Drake | Stephanie March |
| 2006 | Bones | Carl Decker | Michaela Conlin |
| 2006 | Cold Case | John Doe | Tracie Thoms |
| 2006 | Shark | Elliott Dasher | Danielle Panabaker |
| 2007 | Lost | Edmund Burke | Evangeline Lilly |
| 2008 | John Adams | John Dickinson | Mamie Gummer |
| 2008 | Numb3rs | William Fraley | Michelle Nolden |
| 2008 | House | Jason | Jennifer Morrison |
| 2009 | Heroes | Emile Danko | Cristine Rose |
| 2010 | Big Love | J.J. | Ginnifer Goodwin |
| 2010 | Damages | Ray Fiske | Anastasia Griffith |
| 2010 | The Mentalist | Dr. Linus Wagner | Amanda Righetti |
| 2011 | The Event | Blake Sterling | Laura Innes |
| 2013 | The Mob Doctor | Dr. Stafford White | Jaime Lee Kirchner |
| 2013 | White Collar | Brett Forsythe | Tiffani Thiessen |
| 2013 | Revolution | Dr. Calvin Horn | Elizabeth Mitchell |
| 2014 | Banshee | Jim Racine | Trieste Kelly Dunn |
| 2014 | The Americans | John Skeevers | Holly Taylor |
| 2014 | True Blood | Magister | Deborah Ann Woll |
| 2014 | Legends | Founding Father | Winter Ave Zoli |
| 2015 | Suits | Eric Woodall | Sarah Rafferty |
| 2017 | 12 Monkeys | Leland Goines | Barbara Sukowa |
| 2019 | Madam Secretary | Russell Jackson | Wallis Currie-Wood |
| 2022 | Now and Then | Sullivan | Soledad Villamil |
| 2022 | Let the Right One In | Arthur Logan | Grace Gummer |
| 2023 | The Walking Dead: Dead City | The Croat | Mahina Napoleon |
| 2025 | Death by Lightning | Doctor Willard Bliss | Betty Gilpin |
| 2026 | Law and Order | ASA Ed Danvers/Charles Banks/Attorney Charles Banks/Phillip Swann/Richard Kaplan | S. Epatha Merkerson |
Theater
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Playwright |
| 1978 | Idiot’s Delight | Palota | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1978 | Design for Living | Photographer | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Noel Coward |
| 1978 | The School for Wives | Notary | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Moliere |
| 1978 | A Month in the Country | Matvey | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Ivan Turgenev |
| 1979 | Hay Fever | Sandy Tyrell | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Noel Coward |
| 1979 | Charley’s Aunt | Charley Wykeham | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Brandon Thomas |
| 1979 | Children of the Sun | Rioter | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Maxim Gorky |
| 1980 | The Front Page | Earl Williams | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur |
| 1981 | The Survivor | Yankele, understudy Rudy | Morosco Theatre (Broadway) | Susan Nanus |
| 1981 | Cloud 9 | Betty/Gerry | Lucille Lortel Theatre / Theatre de Lys (Off-Broadway) | Caryl Churchill |
| 1982 | “Master Harold”…and the Boys | Hally | Yale Repertory Theatre | Athol Fugard |
| 1983 | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Stanley Jerome | Neil Simon Theatre (Broadway) | Neil Simon |
| 1985 | A Map of the World | Stephen | The Public Theater (Off-Broadway) | David Hare |
| 1986 | Loot | Hal | Music Box Theatre (Broadway) | Joe Orton |
| 1988 | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) | Anton Chekhov |
| 1988 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Guthrie Theater | William Shakespeare |
| 1990 | Ivanov | Lvov | Yale Repertory Theatre | Anton Chekhov |
| 1991 | Two Shakespearean Actors | John Ryder | Cort Theatre (Broadway) | Richard Nelson |
| 1992 | It’s Only a Play | Peter Austin | James A. Doolittle Theatre (UCLA) | Terrence McNally |
| 1994 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | Criterion Center Stage Right (Broadway) | Tennessee Williams |
| 2001 | The Dumb Waiter | Ben | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Harold Pinter |
| 2001 | The Zoo Story | Peter | Williamstown Theatre Festival | Edward Albee |
| 2002 | Blue/Orange | Robert Smith | Atlantic Theater Company (Off-Broadway) | Joe Penhall |
| 2005 | The Pillowman | Ariel | Booth Theatre (Broadway) | Martin McDonagh |
| 2006 | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lt. Com. Philip Francis Queeg | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Broadway) | Herman Wouk |
| 2012 | Slowgirl | Sterling | Claire Tow Theater (Lincoln Center Theater) | Greg Pierce |