Andrew Daniel Divoff (born July 2, 1955) is a Venezuelan film and television actor, best known for playing the evil Djinn in the two first Wishmaster films and the villains Cherry Ganz in Another 48 Hrs., Ivan Sarnoff in CSI: Miami and Mikhail Bakunin in Lost.
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