Daniel Benzali

Daniel Benzali born January 20 1950 is a BrazilianAmerican stage television and film actorBenzali was a theatre actor before making gueststarring roles on television series such as Star Trek The Next Generation The XFiles NYPD Blue and LA Law LA Law creator Steven Bochco was so impressed with Benzalis 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 Dawns Early Light 1990 Murder at 1600 1997 and The Grey Zone 2001 He also appeared in the postapocalyptic CBS series Jericho as the enigmatic former Department of Homeland Security director Thomas Valente Most recently he starred in the FX television series NipTuck as the main characters psychotherapist and later patient Dr Griffin Another of his roles was that of Reggie a money hungry sales managerdrug smuggler at a car dealership in the 1999 cultclassic 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 Webbers 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 ABCs General Hospital2Benzali plays a character named Theodore Hoffman a reference to his role on the mid1990s television series Murder One Benzalis character is also known as The Balkan an international crime lord Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Benzali  licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia