Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 20, 1946
Place of Birth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Credits
56 titles
Daniel Benzali
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Lie to Me
Joseph Hollin
Eli Stone
Judge Emmet Bortz
Californication
Larry
Believers
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
Walter
Jericho
Thomas Valente
Nip/Tuck
Dr. Griffin
Dead Heat
Frank Finnegan
UC: Undercover
The Agency
Robert Quinn
The Grey Zone
Simon Schlermer
Boss of Bosses
Bruce Mouw
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dr. Sigmund Stein
The District
Robert Quinn
Screwed
Detective Tom Dewey
Suckers
Reggie
Her Married Lover
Det. Joe Lansing
Heist
Big Fats
All the Little Animals
Bernard 'The Fat' De Winter
The End of Violence
Phelps
Murder at 1600
Agent Nick Spikings
Remember WENN
Rex Noble
Murder One
Theodore 'Ted' Hoffman
The Outer Limits
Graham Highfield
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
Dr. Ezo
A Child's Cry for Help
Dr. Everett Morris
One West Waikiki
NYPD Blue
James Sinclair
The X-Files
Colonel Wharton
The Distinguished Gentleman
'Skeeter' Warburton
Citizen Cohn
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman
Afterburn
Col. John Patterson
The Last of His Tribe
Mr. Whitney
A Day in October
Solomon Kublitz
Law & Order
Medical Examiner
By Dawn's Early Light
Bascombe
Roe vs. Wade
Messenger of Death
Barney Doyle
The Murder of Mary Phagan
Coroner
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Surgeon
Beauty and the Beast
Edward
Crossbow
Star Cops
Commander Griffin
Pack of Lies
Peter Schafer
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Ross
The Last Days of Patton
Col. Glen Spurling
L.A. Law
Judge Donald Phillips
Whoops Apocalypse
William Kubert (US Defence Secretary)
Strong Medicine
Seth
Matlock
Henry Mayfield