Daniel Benzali

Daniel Benzali

  • Birthday: 1950-01-20
  • Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Biography

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) 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.

Filmography

Suckers

1999

As Reggie

Heist

1998

As Big Fats

Murder at 1600

1997

As Agent Nick Spikings

All the Little Animals

1999

As Bernard 'The Fat' De Winter

Her Married Lover

1999

As Det. Joe Lansing

Messenger of Death

1988

As Chief Barney Doyle

The Grey Zone

2001

As Simon Schlermer

A Day in October

1991

As Solomon Kublitz

Dead Heat

2002

As Frank Finnegan

Screwed

2000

As Detective Tom Dewey

Boss of Bosses

2001

As Bruce Mouw

The End of Violence

1997

As Phelps

The Last of His Tribe

1992

As Mr. Whitney

Pack of Lies

1987

As Peter Schafer

A Child's Cry for Help

1994

As Dr. Everett Morris

The Last Days of Patton

1986

As Col. Glen Spurling

Believers

2007

As

Citizen Cohn

1992

As Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman

Afterburn

1992

As Col. John Patterson

Roe vs. Wade

1989

As

Strong Medicine

1986

As Seth

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001

As Dr. Sigmund Stein

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992

As 'Skeeter' Warburton

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987

As Charles Ross

By Dawn's Early Light

1990

As Bascombe

A View to a Kill

1985

As Howe

Whoops Apocalypse

1986

As William Kubert (US Defence Secretary)

Insignificance

1985

As First Theatrical Agent

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