Oleg Taktarov
Actor, director, ex-UFC fighter, TV presenter
Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov (born 26 August 1967) is a Russian actor and a retired mixed martial artist of Mari origin. He is a practitioner of sambo and judo and has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. He was the UFC 6 tournament winner and holds notable wins over Marco Ruas, Tank Abbott, Mark Kerr, and Anthony Macias. After temporarily retiring from mixed martial arts, Taktarov focused on his acting career and starred in the movies 15 Minutes, Bad Boys II, 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, Air Force One and the 2002 version of Rollerball. He also appeared in the first episode of season 3 of Alias entitled The Two and in the NCIS season 5 finale Judgement Day. He has also appeared in a few Russian productions, and was cast in a few releases from 2007, such as We Own the Night. Taktarov also released several instructional Sambo videos and has made an instructional video with Vladimir Vasiliev entitled Russian Mega Fighting. Taktarov more recently starred in Robert Rodriguez's franchise reboot, Predators, directed by Nimród Antal. He is a leading actor in the Russian television series Ex-Wife.
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