Gregory Evan Klein is an actor and writer who played a Russian henchman working for Dmitri Gredenko in Season 6 of 24. He was present with Gredenko at 9421 Glasgow, and later assembled the drones at Shadow Valley. Klein was born in Syracuse, New York, but grew up in Maryland and Houston. He studied journalism at Auburn University. After that, Klein worked as a reporter during the day and a pro-wrestler at night. He then moved back to New York where he studied acting and later creative writing. He wrote The King of New Orleans about the wrestler Sylvester Ritter, a.k.a. the Junkyard Dog.