A native of San Francisco Dimitri Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton Massachusetts After high school he attended Stetson University in Deland Florida where he was a scholarship music student majoring in classical guitar After completing the Bachelors program he matriculated to Florida State University in Tallahassee Florida where he continued with his acting and music studies in the Masters program His first acting experience was as the lead in the play Foxfire by Hume Cronin where he played the country music star Dillard Nations Diatchenko continued to develop his acting skills both on stage and on camera in Floridabased projects from 1990 1996 while studying with Ken Stilson and George Judy Some of these projects include the awardwinning short films Third on a Match Used Cars and Goiter Boy In April of 1996 as Dimitri was graduating with his Masters degree from Florida State University he landed a small role as a Navy Seal in Ridley Scotts Demi Moore starer GI Jane After that break Diatchenko moved out to Los Angeles and officially started his professional acting career In addition to his acting Diatchenko continues to perform as a master classical guitarist As a soloist he has four guitar CDs in release His original composition for solo guitar entitled Tango en Paraiso is featured on the soundtrack for his film Remarkable Power Mel Bay Publications has published this piece in Master Anthology of New Classic Guitar Solos Vol 1 Dimitri has also performed on the soundtrack of the film he costars in Clubhouse and performs his arrangement of Hungarian Dance No 5 by J Brahms with a Django gypsy jazz treatment in the film Repossessed IMDb Mini Biography By Dimitri Diatchenko