Daniel Benzali

Known for ActingBorn 1946-01-20 (age 80)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1946) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor. Benzali was a theatre actor before making guest-starring roles on television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. L.A. Law creator Steven Bochco was so impressed with Benzali's performance that he cast him in the lead role of his 1995 series Murder One, playing attorney Ted Hoffman. For this role he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. More recently, Benzali starred on the series The Agency, and in films such as By Dawn's Early Light (1990), Murder at 1600 (1997) and The Grey Zone (2001). He also appeared in the post-apocalyptic CBS series Jericho as the enigmatic former Department of Homeland Security director Thomas Valente. Most recently he starred in the FX television series Nip/Tuck as the main character's psychotherapist and later patient, Dr. Griffin. Another of his roles was that of Reggie, a money hungry sales manager/drug smuggler at a car dealership in the 1999 cult-classic "Suckers." Benzali has also played musical theater. He portrayed Juan Peron in the London cast of Evita, and played faded film director Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original cast (1993) of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Benzali had previously appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof, and other smaller productions. Benzali was also formerly engaged to actress Kim Cattrall. In December 2010, Benzali joined ABC's General Hospital.[2]Benzali plays a character named Theodore Hoffman, a reference to his role on the mid-1990s television series Murder One. Benzali's character is also known as "The Balkan", an international crime lord. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Benzali , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Heist

The X-Files

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Lie to Me

Strong Medicine

Remember WENN

Californication

The Outer Limits

Murder One

One West Waikiki

Jericho

A Child's Cry for Help

Beauty and the Beast

Nip/Tuck

Law & Order

NYPD Blue

Matlock

L.A. Law

The Last of His Tribe

Eli Stone

The District

The Agency

UC: Undercover

Pack of Lies

The Grey Zone

White Nights

By Dawn's Early Light

The Last Days of Patton

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.

Insignificance

Citizen Cohn

Crossbow

A View to a Kill

All the Little Animals

Star Cops

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Murder at 1600

The Distinguished Gentleman

Messenger of Death

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Roe vs. Wade

Suckers

Dead Heat

Whoops Apocalypse

Boss of Bosses

Screwed

Falcon Crest