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name: "Lev Gorn"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1971"
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updated: "2026-09-17T02:34:28.603988+00:00"
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# Lev Gorn

Actor. Born 1 January 1971 in Stavropol, RSFSR, USSR.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1971, Stavropol, RSFSR, USSR
- **Also known as:** Lev Gorens, Лев Горн

## Biography

Lev Gorn is a Russian-American actor, photographer and filmmaker. Born in 1971 in Stavropol, Russian SFSR, USSR, to Russian Jewish parents, his family emigrated to New York City in 1981. He attended a yeshiva in Brooklyn and the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, and later studied at the International Center of Photography. He became a naturalised US citizen.

Gorn is best known for his recurring and later main role as KGB rezident Arkady Ivanovich Zotov on the FX series *The Americans* (2013–18). Other television credits include Eton Ben-Eleazer on *The Wire* (2002), Anton Pavlenko on *NCIS* (2003), Grigory Kuznetsov on *For All Mankind* (2022–23) and Maxim Petrov on *Lioness* (2023). He has also appeared in films such as *Café Society* (2016) and directed short films.

In addition to acting, Gorn works as a professional portrait and headshot photographer in Manhattan.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Americans* (2013), Fi1m 91, as Arkady Ivanovich Zotov — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Sharpshooter McKenzie
- *Café Society* (2016), Eddie
- *NCIS* (2003), Anton Pavlenko
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), Mikhail Pelevin
- *Lioness* (2023), Maxim Petrov
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), Ben Osheyevsky
- *Billions* (2016), Max
- *Maniac* (2018), Sokolov

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