Mark Zak (born 1959 in Lviv) is a German actor,[1] author and playwright.
Since 1990 he has appeared in over a hundred German and international films, including The Tourist and Bridge of Spies.
Zak grew up in Odessa and emigrated to West Germany in 1974.
He attended the Der Keller acting school in Cologne.
His first novel Glaube, Liebe, Mafia: Ein Fall für Josif Bondar was published in 2013,[2] followed by his play Begleitagentin[3] in 2015.