---
name: "Juris Žagars"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/juris-zagars"
fi1m_id: "juris-zagars"
imdb_id: "nm0951832"
tmdb_id: 1119847
wikidata_id: "Q16358714"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 January 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-12T05:07:16.698834+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Juris Žagars

## Identity

Juris Žagars

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/juris-zagars
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** juris-zagars
- **IMDb ID:** nm0951832
- **TMDB ID:** 1119847
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16358714
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16358714, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951832/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1119847

Actor. Born 26 January 1961 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 January 1961, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
- **Active:** 2024–present
- **Also known as:** Juris Zagars, Yuris Zagars
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16358714, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951832/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1119847

## Biography

Juris Žagars is a Latvian actor. He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Latvian State Conservatory in 1985. He worked at the Youth Theatre from 1985 to 1992 and joined Dailes Theatre in 1993, later serving as its director.

His film and television credits include *The Pagan King* (2018) as Traidenis, *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), *The Agency* (2024) as General Volchok, and *Minotaur* (2026). He has received the Spēlmaņu nakts award for best actor (1999) and the Harija Liepiņa award (2016). His brother was the actor and director Andrejs Žagars.

*Sources: imdb.com, lv.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Minotaur* (2026), Fi1m 80, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/minotaur.md)
- *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), Fi1m 58, as Stephen's Guest — [page](https://film.one/film/limonov-the-ballad.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Minotaur* (2026), Actor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/minotaur.md)
- *Gaiss* (2024), Actor
- *The Agency* (2024), series, as General Volchok
- *The Exalted* (2024), as Andris
- *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), as Stephen's Guest — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/limonov-the-ballad.md)
- *Troubled Minds* (2021), as Gunārs
- *Lost Without Trace* (2020), series, Actor
- *The Pagan King* (2018), as Traidenis
- *Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire* (2015), as Edgars
- *Then It's Hi! Hi! Hee!* (2014), Actor
- *The Nevsky Prospect* (2012), as Renko
- *The Only Picture* (2009), Actor
- *Little Robbers* (2009), as Goochi the Bank Guard
- *Nude* (2008), Actor
- *Don't Talk About It* (2007), as Aleksis
- *The Dark Deer* (2007), Actor
- *Roses of Autumn* (2004), Actor
- *The Python* (2003), Actor
- *The sweet taste of poison* (2001), series, as Krasts
- *Reply with Photo* (1999), as Jurist
- *Dragon's Egg* (1996), Actor
- *Duplets* (1992), Actor
- *The Times of the Surveyors* (1991), series, Actor
- *The Zitar Family* (1990), as Ingus
- *Zītaru dzimta* (1990), series, as Ingus
- *A Hundred Versts Along the River* (1990), Actor
- *Fortune Telling on a Lamb Shoulder* (1989), Actor
- *Dear Life* (1989), Actor
- *The Wild Swans* (1987), as Young King
- *Aija* (1987), series, as Janis Bolodis
- *The Double* (1986), Actor
- *Vakara variants* (1980), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Juris Žagars](https://film.one/media/person/1268025/gallery-5633348bf663.jpg) Juris Žagars — Image via TMDB
- ![Juris Žagars](https://film.one/media/person/1268025/gallery-c8a1884fd188.jpg) Juris Žagars — Image via TMDB

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