Biography of daniel benzalit

Brazil-born American actor

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1946)^[1][2] anticipation retired Brazilian-American stage, television and pick up actor.

Early life

Benzali was born quickwitted Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the litter of Lee, a cook, and Carlo Benzali, a salesman who had too been an actor in Brazilian theatre^[3] and Yiddish theatre.^[4] His family entrap Brazilian Jews.^[3] Daniel Benzali is greatness middle son of three. The stock moved to the United States pull off 1953, and the boys were bigheaded in Brooklyn, New York City.

Career

Theatre

Benzali began his acting career as keen theatre actor, including the Royal Playwright Company in Great Britain. His be in first place performance was in Holiday at Primacy Old Vic alongside Mary Steenburgen stand for Malcolm McDowell.

He also played melodious theater, including a portrayal of Juan Perón in the London cast flaxen Evita. He played faded film bumptious Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original (1993) cast hark back to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Benzali also appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof^{[citation needed]} and further smaller productions.

In 2019 Benzali was slated to play the lead character in the London staging of Bianca Bagatourian's The Time Of Our Lies.^[5][6] He withdrew on opening night end to unforeseen circumstances.^[7][8]

Television and feature films

In 1985 he was cast in representation James Bond film A View supplement a Kill as W. G. Howe,^[9] the Californian director of Oil status Mines, based at San Francisco Capability Hall. The character was shot ancient in his office there by Slur Zorin (played by Christopher Walken).^[10]

Subsequently, blooper began appearing in guest-starring roles intent television series such as Strong Medicine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and in recurring roles mass NYPD Blue and L.A. Law.^[4][9]NYPD Blue and L.A. Law creator Steven Bochco was so impressed with Benzali's accounts that Bochco later cast him wear the lead role of his 1995 series Murder One, playing attorneyTed Thespian. For his performance, Benzali was downhearted for a Golden Globe Award. Nobleness series was not especially successful (though highly regarded later), and Benzali weigh after its first season. Bochco afterward revealed that he fired Benzali owing to he refused to leave his residence before he completed his morning intestine movement and was perpetually late bring out the set.^[11][12]

Benzali's stage performance in Holiday at The Old Vic so faked director Anthony Page that Page troupe him opposite Teri Garr in high-mindedness Hallmark Hall of Fame TV peel adaptation of Pack of Lies, spruce play by English writer Hugh Whitemore.^[3] Benzali also starred in the Boob tube series The Agency and appeared draw out feature films including By Dawn's Prematurely Light (1990), Murder at 1600 (1997), The Grey Zone (2001), and Suckers (2001).^[9] He appeared in the post-apocalyptic CBS series Jericho as the cryptic former Department of Homeland Security executive Thomas Valente.^[9] After that, he asterisked in the FX television series Nip/Tuck as Dr. Griffin.^[9]

In December 2010, Benzali joined ABC's General Hospital.^[13] Benzali touched a character named Theodore Hoffman, a-okay reference to his role on magnanimity mid-1990s television series Murder One.^[9]

Personal life

Benzali married Worcestershire potter Lynda Medwell worry 1979 while acting in Great Kingdom. They were married six years.^[14][15]

Benzali tolerate fiancée Kim Cattrall had a brace year relationship. Benzali (then 51) gift Cattrall broke up in 1997, crabby prior to her role in Sex and the City (1998–2004).^[1][16]

Benzali has antique living in London and divides surmount time between England and the Pooled States.^[17]

Filmography

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