Eric Ross Gilliatt

Ukrainian Film Institute Productions ~ CEO, Managing Director and Sr. Producer - General Partner, Kaleidoscope Studios, LLC
Actor, Director, Producer, Theatre Director, Theatrical Producer and Screenwriter

Kiev, Ukraine

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March 2012

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About Eric

Eric Ross Gilliatt is a highly successful American leading dramatic actor, director and producer, commercial and VO talent. With residences now in both the US and Eastern Europe he is currently very successfully working predominately in film projects in both continental locations for over 10 years. Previously, he had been directly involved with the dramatic and musical stage as a leading actor, director, and producer, plus working as talent for television and radio commercial productions for more than 30 years. He is a highly sought-after acting talent who has worked with some of the best directors in the best drama venues in Southern California and in films in both the US and Eastern Europe.
A starring actor from his very first stage role, his theatrical media reviews have always been top rated, and he has been a long-standing actor with very high media and patron respect and loyalty. He has been a friend of many of Hollywood’s major movie and musical superstars throughout his career.
As a student of the arts, Eric studied drama and communicating arts in Southern California. He is a Meisner Technique actor who studied for three years under the private tutoring of well-known San Diego Acting Coach, stage and television director/producer, Thomas Morton. His natural ability to completely immerse himself into character, adopt character speaking accents as needed, and his projection of enormous energy on stage won him many coveted roles as a leading male actor in even high-level local Broadway musical productions.

A starring actor from his very first stage role, his theatrical media reviews have always been top rated, and he has been a long-standing actor with very high media and patron respect and loyalty. A friend of many of Hollywood’s major movie and musical superstars, Eric has always been personally lauded by them as “one of the best” on the dramatic and musical stage.

In 2011, he was contacted by a London casting agent and asked to join the cast for the independent feature length film; “Overturn – Awakening of the Warrior” as one of the main stars. Since completing “Overturn,” Eric has performed in a supporting role in the major bi-lingual international feature dramatic fiction movie, “The Bomb,” which starred the famous Russian actor, the late Andrea Panin. He has also had supporting roles and voice over work in several feature length docudrama TV movies, such as “The History of Criminalistics,” as well as the film festival award winning short films; “Must Escape,” “Fuel to the Fire”, in the multi - award winning French international digital STUDIO+ series, “Kill Skills.”

Recently, Eric had the male leading role in “Anna” a dramatic short film shot in Eastern Europe. The film premiered at Cannes 72 in competition for the Best Short Film Palm d’Or, then screened at TIFF and at Graumann’s Chinese Theater for AFI Fest, as well as over 200 other Film Festivals globally winning 39 Best Short Film Awards including the Best Short Film Award at BIFA, was short listed for BAFTA and Oscar qualified. In 2022 he was cast in the Hollywood independent dark thriller feature film, “Hide,” playing the ominous leading/starring role of Jekyll. It was shot on location in Hollywood and Los Angeles, wrapping in July and due to be released in early 2023.

To view Eric’s actor’s reels and movie scenes, follow these web profile links.

Eric also recently joined with one other top Hollywood Producer and is now a General Partner, Co-Owner, CFO and Executive Producer in Kaleidoscope Studios, LLP in Tulsa, OK.

Unique traits: Leading actor: film, television, stage, commercials, voice over. Director, producer (Film and Television) and screenwriter. Acting coach teaching Meisner Acting Technique. Ability to affect language accents. Multilingual.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Weight:
175

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Salt/Pepper

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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In costume as the priest on location at St. Nicholas Cathedral, Kyiv for new short film "Must Escape"

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Cold East (registered TM) Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Thriller Aidan Snow, a handsome 40-year-old former British SAS commando, now an MI6 agent is joined by the CIA, Ukrainian SBU, and Russian FSB agents. They are thrust into a desperate, non-stop high action global chase to thwart an intense, complicated al Qaida double agent world terrorism plot to incite WWIII by planting a nuclear suitcase bomb in the Kremlin.
Alexandra and the Violin Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Fantasy In 1887 Canada, the precocious young daughter of a café manager dreams of becoming a concert violinist. She inherits her grandfather’s violin and finds it has magical abilities beyond music. She can see the secret memories of people who listen.

Credits

Hide (2022)
Film by Hideovision/Chis Li Lead: Jekyll An aging former domestic terrorist hiding in the forest for 50 years faces his own past and failing health as he tries to manipulate a young teenage boy to help him extract his last revenge.
ANNA (2019)
Film (short) by Dekel Berenson Male lead ; Eric - Texas Oil Rig Worker Dramatic Short Film about a single, middle-aged woman in the Eastern European country of Ukraine looking for a better and happier life for herself and her teenage daughter.
Going Beyond (2017 - 2018)
Television by Anton Hilman Host Weekly international travel series
Kill Skills (2017)
Television (Thriller) Actor
Must Escape (2016)
Film (Short, Adventure, Comedy and Thriller) Actor
Fuel to the Fire (2015)
Film (short) by Avalon Films International/Harald Franklin University Professor/co-star Based on the true story of a young American woman who married an Iranian national, converted to the Muslim faith and is raped by a neighbor then thrown into prison for being unfaithful to her husband. She is found guilty and stoned to death. The film is dedicated to all women executed by death by stoning.
The History of Criminalistics (2014)
Television by FilmUA/Vera Yakavenko (Crime and History) Actor Television docu-drama series
Bomba (2013)
Television (Action, Drama and War) Actor
Overturn: Awakening of the Warrior (2012)
Film by Independent Film Production (Action, Mystery and Sci-Fi) Actor/Producer