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Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor. Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents. He is the middle child of three boys born to a father who was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York and a mother who was a homemaker. 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... MORE

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor. Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents. He is the middle child of three boys born to a father who was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York and a mother who was a homemaker. 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. 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 LESS