Aleksander Krupa (born 18 March 1947),[2] often credited as Olek Krupa, is a Polish-American actor, active in film and television roles and best known for playing villains and/or criminals, such as in Eraser, Blue Streak, Home Alone 3 as Peter Beaupre and The Italian Job as Mashkov.
Krupa continued to have minor roles in many Hollywood movies, such as X-Men: First Class, Hidden Figures, and The Fate of the Furious.
[3] In 1974 he graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and later began performing on stage, notable in Theater Scena STU in Kraków.
[5] The following years he played Edward Teller in the made-for-television movie Day One (1989), and Erich von Stroheim in the miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990).
Krupa also had a recurring role in the FX period drama series, The Americans.