Boris Leskin dead: Men In Black actor who played cook in 1997 hit movie dies at 97

He played the role of a cook in the 1997 box office smash starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

Leskin also had a role in the 1989 Jene Hackman movie The Package as a Soviet Foreign Minister - and played parts in the TV series New York Undercover and Dellaventura.

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Daria Jurrasic, a member of the Moscow Art Theater, hailed Leskin for his “amazing” and “incredible” life.

“Farewell. Thank you,” Jurassic wrote.

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