Michael Aronov

Michael Aronov (born May 4, 1976) is an American actor who has worked in film, television and theatre.[1][2] In 2017, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Uri Savir in the Broadway play Oslo. He is also known for playing the role of Anton Baklanov, a refusenik scientist in The Americans.

Aronov spent three seasons on the award-winning series The Americans playing a physicist who is torn from his family and exiled as a political prisoner.[10] In 2017 The Blacklist brought him on as a new member to the show’s cast, playing Smokey Putnum, the lovable hustler and sidekick to James Spader.[11] Aronov was also recurring as right-hand-man to John Malkovich in Showtime’s Billions.[12] Aronov is currently playing one of the leads in a new series for Cinemax called Jett[13] and was recently seen opposite Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac on the big screen in Operation Finale.