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 impre ... ssed 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.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Murder One
as Theodore 'Ted' Hoffman
Episodes: 23
First Aired: Sep 20, 1995
L.A. Law
as Judge Donald T. Phillips
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Sep 15, 1986
Jericho
as Thomas Valente
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Sep 20, 2006
The Agency
as Robert Quinn
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 27, 2001
NYPD Blue
as James Sinclair
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 21, 1993
Falcon Crest
as Judge Robbins
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 04, 1981
The Murder of Mary Phagan
as Coroner
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 24, 1988
Strong Medicine
as Seth
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 26, 1986
Law & Order
as Medical Examiner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1990
The District
as Robert Quinn
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 2000
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Surgeon
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 28, 1987
The X-Files
as Colonel Wharton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Peter Schaefer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
Lie to Me
as Joseph Hollin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 21, 2009
The Outer Limits
as Graham Highfield
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 26, 1995
Californication
as Larry
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 13, 2007
Law & Order
as Wade Bookman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1990
Eli Stone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 2008
Beauty and the Beast
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1987
UC: Undercover
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 2001
One West Waikiki
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 04, 1994
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