Ian McShane played Nickolai Ivanovich in the episode Enemies Foreign and Domestic. McShane is best known for his television roles, particularly the BBC's Lovejoy and HBO's Western drama Deadwood (with Jim Beaver and Gerald McRaney). McShane starred as King Silas Benjamin in NBC series Kings, Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, and as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.