Tony award nominations: 1983, Featured Actor in a Play, Brighton Beach Memoirs (nom); 1992, Featured Actor in a Play, Two Shakespearean Actors (nom.) Drama Desk Awards: 1992, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Two Shakespearean Actors (nom;) Drama Desk Award, 1982, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Cloud 9. Villager Award, 1982, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Cloud 9. His name is pronounced Zhel-ko Ee-Vah-nek. The Yugoslavian-born actor graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1980. Drama Desk Awards: 1992, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Two Shakespearean Actors (nom;) Twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play): in 1983 for "Brighton Beach Memoirs," and in 1992 for "Two Shakespearean Actors." He is frequently cast as political or business middlemen of corrupt, shady natures who often end up stabbing somebody in the back.
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