Ravil Isyanov, a Soviet-born American character actor who appeared in movies like Defiance, K-19: The Widowmaker and Transformers: Dark of the Moon and in numerous TV series, most recently playing Kirkin on CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles, died Sept.
29 at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 59.Isyanov was born in Voskresensk, Russia (then part of the USSR) on Aug.
20, 1962. Drawn to performing arts from a young age, he enrolled in Perm Institute of Culture to study directing after graduating from high school in 1980.
His studies were interrupted in 1982 when he left to complete a two-year mandatory military service in the Soviet Air Force and was stationed in the Russian Far East.
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