Dennis Boutsikaris is an American character actor who has won the Obie Award twice.
21 Facts About Dennis Boutsikaris
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Dennis Boutsikaris is a narrator of audiobooks, for which he has won 13 Golden Earphone Awards and 8 Audie Awards.
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Dennis Boutsikaris won Best Audiobook of the Year from Amazon for his reading of The Gene.
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Dennis Boutsikaris took up acting while a student at Governor Livingston High School, because he felt he was too small to succeed in athletics.
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Dennis Boutsikaris had a leading part in episode 20 of the second season of the hit CBS show Person of Interest which aired in the USA on Thursday, April 26,2013.
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Dennis Boutsikaris was part of NBC's State of Affairs, the TV series that marks the return to series television of Katherine Heigl.
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In 2017, Dennis Boutsikaris was cast in the recurring role of Henry Roarke on the ABC thriller series Quantico.
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Dennis Boutsikaris has starred in over 20 TV movies, including Chasing the Dragon, And Then There Was One, Three Faces of Karen, Survival on the Mountain, Beyond Betrayal, and as Woody Allen in the miniseries Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story.
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On Broadway Dennis Boutsikaris became the first American to play Mozart in Amadeus, and was directed by Laurence Olivier in Filumena.
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Dennis Boutsikaris starred in the Off-Broadway production of Sight Unseen to great critical acclaim.
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Dennis Boutsikaris has been seen on Broadway in Bent and Amadeus with Frank Langella.
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Dennis Boutsikaris was seen in the Delacorte Theatre's production of Julius Caesar as Cassius.
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Dennis Boutsikaris was in the original New York productions of The Boys Next Door, A Picasso, and the revival of That Championship Season.
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Dennis Boutsikaris received the Obie Award and a nomination for a Drama Desk Award for this performance.
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Dennis Boutsikaris continued his association with Laurie Metcalf appearing with her in The Other Place Off-Broadway.
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Dennis Boutsikaris can be heard in over 160 audiobooks and has received eight Audie Awards and two Best Voices of the Year Awards from AudioFile Magazine.
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Dennis Boutsikaris has received two Obie Awards: one in 1985 for Outstanding Performance in Nest of the Woodgrouse at the New York Shakespeare Festival, directed by Joseph Papp; and one in 1992 for Outstanding Performance in Sight Unseen at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Dennis Boutsikaris received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actor for Sight Unseen, as well as a Cable ACE nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Chasing the Dragon in 1995.
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Dennis Boutsikaris was nominated for a People's Choice Award as best Newcomer.
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Dennis Boutsikaris received the Best Actor Award at the Staten Island Film Festival and the Long island Film Festival for his role in Calling It Quits.
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Dennis Boutsikaris was married to actress Deborah Hedwall; they divorced in 2002.