Alec Utgoff

Alec Utgoff (Russian: Олег Владимирович Утгоф; born 1 March 1986)[3] is a Soviet-born English actor. He pursued acting and graduated from the prestigious Drama Centre London. He is known for playing the role of Aleksandr Borovsky in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Dr. Alexei in the third season of Stranger Things. His other notable roles include Alexi in San Andreas (2015),[1][4] Dmitri in Mortdecai (2015)[5] and Yuri/Dimitri in The Wrong Mans (2015).

Utgoff was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) to Roza, a musical conductor, and Vladimir, a heart surgeon who is an honored doctor of modern-day Ukraine.[1] In 1996, at the age of 10, he moved to London, England. His brother Alan, an economist, lives in Moscow and his parents still live in Kyiv.[2] Ethnically he is half Russian, half Ossetian with some ethnic German ancestry on his father’s side.[7][8] He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English.