Alec Utgoff (Ukrainian: Олег Володимирович Утгоф; born 1 March 1986) is a Ukrainian-English actor, who was born in Kiev, Soviet Union, modern day Ukraine. He is known for playing the role of Aleksandr Borovsky in ‘’Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’’ and Alexei in the third season of Stranger Things. His other notable roles include Alexi in San Andreas (2015), Dmitri in Mortdecai (2015) and Yuri/Dimitri in The Wrong Mans (2015).
Early life
Utgoff was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kiev, Ukraine) to Roza, a musical conductor, and Vladimir, a heart surgeon who is an honored doctor of modern-day Ukraine. In 1997, at the age of 11, he moved to London, England. His brother Alan, an economist, and his parents still live in Kiev. Ethnically he is half Russian, half Ossetian. He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English.