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15 Facts About Rudolf Martin

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Rudolf Martin was born on 31 July 1967 and is a German actor working mainly in the United States.

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Rudolf Martin first appeared in off-Broadway productions and then moved on to extensive TV and film work.

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Rudolf Martin has made guest appearances on numerous hit television series and recently started working in Germany as well.

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Rudolf Martin then enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City to pursue acting.

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Rudolf Martin played "Nikolai Krasnakov", the charming but dangerous Russian mobster whose life was to be developed into a mini-series by the fictional network.

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Rudolf Martin played the exuberant young mobster for the entire two seasons.

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Rudolf 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.

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Rudolf Martin portrayed the title character Vlad Dracula in the USA film Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula.

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Rudolf Martin then guest-starred as the fictional Count Dracula on the fifth season premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer alongside his previous All My Children co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar.

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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.

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Rudolf Martin's main focus remains on working in film; as a European actor he continues to appear in European productions as well.

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Rudolf Martin 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.

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Rudolf Martin 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.

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Rudolf Martin has a guest appearance in three episodes of Dexter as drug lord Carlos Guerrero.

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Rudolf Martin's character is a stalker set out to eliminate Spears as the Femme Fatale.