Rudolf Martin - wikipedia Rudolf Martin For other people named Rudolf Martin, see Rudolf Martin ( disambiguation ). This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( March 2013 ) Rudolf Martin ( 1967 - 07 - 31 ) 31 July 1967 ( age 50 ) West Berlin Residence Los Angeles, California Other names 1993 -- present Occupation Actor Spouse ( s ) Katherine LaPlant Website www.rudolfmartin.com Rudolf Martin ( born 31 July 1967 ) is a German actor working mainly in the United States. He first appeared in off - Broadway productions and then moved on to extensive TV and film work. He has made guest appearances on numerous hit television series and recently started working in Germany as well. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Film 3.2 Television 4 External links Early life and education Martin was born in West Berlin and spent his early years traveling throughout Europe while completing his education. Because of his interest in the arts, Martin studied American and English literature in Berlin and drama in Paris. He then enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City to pursue acting. While performing in small theatre productions, Martin secured a starring role in Susan Seidelman 's Academy Award - nominated short film The Dutch Master. This was followed by leading roles on ABC 's All My Children and Off - Broadway in Nicky Silver 's critically acclaimed hit comedy The Food Chain. While in New York, Martin received recognition for his work in independent films such as Fall, High Art and When. Career After arriving in Los Angeles in 1999, he appeared in the Warner Brothers thriller Swordfish starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Don Cheadle. In the film Martin plays Axl Torvalds, an internationally renowned computer hacker who leads FBI agents on the trail of a criminal mastermind. Based on his performance in Swordfish, Martin was offered a role in the German thriller Lautlos. Before Swordfish Martin played a role in the original Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, an inside look at the television networks developed by Peter Lefcourt and Brandon Tartikoff that was popular within the entertainment industry. Martin played `` Nikolai Krasnakov '', the charming but dangerous Russian mobster whose life was to be developed into a mini-series by the fictional network. Martin played the exuberant young mobster for the entire two seasons. Martin then moved to Hollywood and has since appeared in the 20th Century Fox 's comedy Bedazzled, the Warner Brothers film White Oleander, Patrik Ian Polk 's edgy comedy Punks that was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, as well as in the independent feature The Scoundrel 's Wife, starring Tatum O'Neal, Tim Curry and Julian Sands. Martin portrayed the title character Vlad Dracula in the USA film Dark Prince : The True Story of Dracula. The film was shot in 2000 on authentic locations in Romania and tells the story of Prince Vlad III Dracula, `` the Impaler '' ( 1431 -- 1476 ), who inspired the name of Bram Stoker 's fictional vampire count. Peter Weller, Jane March and Roger Daltrey co-starred in Dark Prince, which premiered in October 2001. Martin then guest - starred as the fictional Count Dracula on the fifth season premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( `` Buffy vs Dracula '' ) alongside his previous All My Children co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Rudolf Martin proceeded to guest - star in five episodes of the Fox thriller 24 in which he played two different characters, one of them impersonating the other. He has also guest starred in other television dramas, notably Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan and in CSI : Crime Scene Investigation as a serial killer motivated by Shakespearean sonnets, as well as Mossad agent Ari Haswari, the antagonist to Mark Harmon on the hit show NCIS for seasons 1 -- 2 until that character 's violent death. Also released is the independent feature film River 's End, shot on location in Texas. Martin 's main focus remains on working in film ; as a European actor he continues to appear in European productions as well. He had his second lead performance in the film : Bloodlines, the story of a young man coming to terms with his newly discovered family in Slovakia. Bloodlines was shot in San Francisco and Slovakia in 2003. He is cast member in Hoboken Hollow, an independent feature with C. Thomas Howell, Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen and in another German feature, Paparazzo shooting in France and Spain. In Stargate SG - 1 he had a guest appearance in the episode `` Company of Thieves '' in Season 10 as Anateo of the Lucian Alliance. He also has a guest appearance in three episodes of Dexter as drug lord Carlos Guerrero. Currently ( as of 2006 ) completed is Last Exit and Hyenas and the short movie Sunrise. In 2011 he played the character of Tormento Lancie in the video interludes for Britney Spears ' Femme Fatale Tour. Martin 's character is a stalker set out to eliminate Spears as the Femme Fatale. Filmography Film The Dutch Master ( 1993 ) ( Susan Seidelman ) Run for Cover ( 1995 ) Café Babel ( 1995 ) Fall ( 1997 ) High Art ( 1998 ) When ( 1999 ) Watershed ( 1999 ) Dark Prince : The True Story of Dracula ( 2000 ) Bedazzled ( 2000 ) Punks ( 2001 ) Swordfish ( 2001 ) The Scoundrel 's Wife ( a.k.a. Home Front ) ( 2002 ) Paparazzo ( 2004 ) ( German TV movie ) Bloodlines ( 2004 ) Lautlos ( 2004 ) ( German Movie ) Hoboken Hollow ( 2005 ) River 's End ( 2005 ) Two Nights ( 2007 ) Last Exit ( 2008 ) Sunrise ( 2008 ) The Hitchhiking Game ( short ) ( 2008 ) Raven ( 2009 ) Heisse Spur ( Cry No More ) ( 2009 ) ( German TV ) Die Jagd nach der heiligen Lanze ( Spear of Destiny ) ( 2010 ) ( German TV ) Hyenas ( 2011 ) Pig ( 2011 ) The Stand - In ( short ) ( 2011 ) The Collector ( 2012 ) Bela Kiss ( 2012 ) 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun ( 2015 ) Near Myth : The Oskar Knight Story ( 2016 ) Fucking Berlin ( 2016 ) Television All My Children ( 1993 -- 1996, 2004 ) ( series regular ) as Anton Lang Sliders ( 1999 ) Beggars and Choosers ( in 22 episodes ) ( 1999 - 2001 ) Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( as Dracula ) ( 2000 ) 24 ( in 5 episodes, 2 roles ) ( 2001 - 2002 ) Star Trek : Enterprise ( 2002 ) ( Episode : `` Two Days and Two Nights '' ) CSI : Crime Scene Investigation ( in 2 episodes ) ( 2003 ) Judging Amy ( 2003 ) CSI : Miami ( 2004 ) NCIS ( in 7 episodes ) ( 2004 -- 14 ) as Ari Haswari Crossing Jordan ( 2005 ) Stargate SG - 1 ( 2006 ) Dexter ( in 4 episodes ) ( 2006 ) Moonlight ( 2007 ) Mad Men ( 2008 ) Nikita ( 2010 -- 2011 ) Borgia ( 2011 ) The Mentalist ( 2012 ) External links Rudolf Martin on IMDb VIAF : 71155664 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Martin&oldid=802673107 '' Categories : 1967 births Male actors from Berlin German expatriates in the United States Living people German expatriate male actors in the United States German male stage actors German male film actors German male television actors Hidden categories : Articles lacking in - text citations from March 2013 All articles lacking in - text citations Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español فارسی Français Italiano 日本 語 Plattdüütsch Edit links This page was last edited on 27 September 2017, at 18 : 25. 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Question: who played dracula on buffy the vampire slayer
Answer: Rudolf Martin