Victor Rasuk
Victor Rasuk currently stars in HBO’s “How to Make it in America,” with Bryan Greenberg. The show tells the story of two innovative young men, (Rasuk and Greenberg) who attempt to realize the American dream in New York City. Rasuk most recently co-starred in Steven Soderbergh’s Che, the first of two films about Che Guevera starring Benicio Del Toro. Rasuk also completed an arc for the final season of “ER.”
For his feature film debut as the title character in the Sundance Film Festival hit, Raising Victor Vargas (2003), Rasuk garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance. He also starred as skateboard legend Tony Alva in TriStar Pictures’ Lords of Dogtown, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Based on Stacey Peralta’s documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, the film co-starred Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson and Johnny Knoxville. In 2008, he co-starred in Kimberly Peirce’s Stop Loss with Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish.
Rasuk’s credits also include the independent features, Keep Coming Back starring William H. Macy and Mos Def, Life Is Hot in Cracktown with Kerry Washington and Brandon Routh, Bonneville, starring Joan Allen, Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange, Spinning Into Butter with Sarah Jessica Parker, Adrift in Manhattan (2007 Sundance Film Festival, Dramatic Competition) with Heather Graham and Zackary Adler’s I’M Reed Fish with Alexis Bledel, Jay Baruchel and DJ Qualls.
A native New Yorker, Rasuk began acting at age 14. In 1998, he starred in “Five Feet High and Rising,” Peter Sollett’s short that garnered awards at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. Rasuk went on to study acting at the Professional Performing Arts School and HB Studios in Manhattan before collaborating with Sollett again on Raising Victor Vargas.