Background
Ivan Kovalev was born in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and studied in the Theater of the Soviet Army before moving to the United States in the 1990s.
Ivan Kovalev was born in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and studied in the Theater of the Soviet Army before moving to the United States in the 1990s.
He has worked as a producer with Russian-American director Georgiy Gavrilov in his Spy Games film series with Igor Kostolevsky. He has appeared twice on screen: as a silent cook in the 2004 film Shpioskie Igry: Nelegal (Spy Games: the Illegal) and as Oligarch Svyatsky in the 2008 film Shpionskie Igry: Chastnyy Visit (Spy Games: The Private Visit). -IMDB page.