Dennis Boutsikaris Biography
Dennis Boutsikaris is an American actor. He is known for Better Call Saul (2015), Money Monster (2016) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). He was previously married to Deborah Hedwall. He has won the Obie Award twice. He is also a narrator of audiobooks and for which he has won an Audie Award.
Dennis Boutsikaris Age | Family
Dennis was born on 21 December 1952 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is 66 years. His parents were Greek American father and a Jewish mother and grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Their names have not been disclosed.
Dennis Boutsikaris Education | Career
Dennis graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He later toured the country with John Houseman’s The Acting Company doing classical theatre. Dennis has appeared in films such as *batteries not included, The Dream Team, Crocodile Dundee II, Boys on the Side and In Dreams, among many others.
He did recent indie films including Cherry Crush, The Education of Charlie Banks, and Calling it Quits. He is Paul Wolfowitz in Oliver Stone’s “W.” Dennis also co-starred in The Bourne Legacy, the fourth installment of the successful “Bourne” franchise. His television credits include the lead in the series Stat, The Jackie Thomas Show, and Misery Loves Company.
He has also had recurring roles on Sidney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street, Nurse, Trinity, ER, Law & Order and, most recently, on Showtime’s Shameless. 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. He was part of NBC’s State of Affairs, the TV series that marks the return to series television of Katherine Heigl.
he also made an appearance as Jack Quayle in the season 2 episode “Collateral Damage” of the CBS show Blue Bloods. In 2015, 2016, and 2018, he played the role of lawyer Rick Schweikart in the first, second, and fourth seasons of the American series Better Call Saul. In 2017, Boutsikaris was cast in the recurring role of Henry Roarke on the ABC thriller series Quantico.
He has starred in over 20 TV movies, including Chasing the Dragon (with Markie Post), And Then There was One (with Amy Madigan), Three Faces of Karen (with Gail O’Grady), Survival on the Mountain, Beyond Betrayal, and as Woody Allen in the miniseries Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (with Patsy Kensit).
Theater
On Broadway, Boutsikaris became the first American to play Mozart in Amadeus. He starred in the Off-Broadway production of Sight Unseen to great critical acclaim. He has been seen on Broadway in Bent, Filumena (directed by Sir Laurence Olivier), and Amadeus (as the first American to play Mozart) with Frank Langella. He was seen in the Delacorte Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar as Cassius.
He was in the original New York productions of The Boys Next Door, A Picasso, and the revival of That Championship Season. Off-Broadway he is famous for playing Jonathan Waxman in the original production of Sight Unseen at the Manhattan Theatre Club and later at the Orpheum Theatre. He received the Obie Award and a nomination for a Drama Desk Award for this performance.
At the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles, he appeared in the premiere of David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood and in 2007 Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life with Laurie Metcalf and Jo Beth Williams. For that performance, he received the Backstage West Garland Award for Best Actor and was nominated for Best Actor by the L.A. Critics Drama Circle and by the LA Alliance Ovation Awards.
In 2009, he was in the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. The former opened to wide critical acclaim and then closed one week later. The latter never opened. He continued his association with Laurie Metcalf appearing with her in The Other Place Off-Broadway.
Voice work
He can be heard in over 100 audiobooks and has received eight Audie Awards and two Best Voices of the Year Awards from AudioFile Magazine.