Anatol Yusef Biography

Anatol Yusef is a British actor who has worked in the television, film, as well as the theater industry. He became globally popular when he played the character of ‘Meyer Lansky’ in the American period crime drama television series’ Boardwalk Empire’. He also worked in the film ‘Last Orders,’ adapted from the original Booker Prize-winning novel by British writer Graham Swift. He has worked in many television shows in his almost three-decade long acting career and has appeared in several films as well. Yusef’s career started in the television industry back in the early 1990s, and he eventually joined the theater in the early 2000s. As a stage actor, he made a name for himself working in popular shows like ‘Under Milk Wood’, ‘Blackbird’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and ‘Macbeth’. He has received many ‘Screen Actors Guild Award’ nominations in his career, winning once in 2011.