Paul Ben-Victor
Known For
Acting
Born
1965-07-24 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paul Ben-Victor (born July 24, 1965) is an American actor. Ben-Victor was born Paul Friedman, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife and on an episode of Cagney & Lacey. Fifteen years after beginning his television career with bit parts, Ben-Victor found himself cast in important roles on HBO dramas The Wire and Entourage, as well as making a 2006 appearance as Coach Lou on My Name is Earl. He portrayed Moe Howard in the 2000 made-for-TV film The Three Stooges. Ben-Victor has been featured on many television cop dramas like Monk and CSI, and also had a recurring role as two-bit con man Steve Richards on three episodes of NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1997. Ben-Victor has co-written stage plays with his mother. At least two of their plays have been staged in the Manhattan area, including "Club Soda" and "The Good Steno". Ben-Victor had a starring role in the Sci-Fi channel television show, The Invisible Man, alongside Vincent Ventresca. The two later guest starred together on the hit TV show Las Vegas. They were reunited again on an episode of the new USA Network series In Plain Sight (Episode 1.2, "Hoosier Daddy"), on which Ben-Victor has a supporting role. Appeared on "Everybody Hates Chris" as Mr. Thurman In 2008, Ben-Victor held a supporting role in the feature film, Clear Lake, WI, starring Michael Madsen. In August 2008, Ben-Victor co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Peter Abrams
The X-Files
as Dr. Aaron Monte
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Joey
The Mentalist
as Noah Landau
The Lincoln Lawyer
as Sly Funaro Sr.
Castle
as Dino Scarpella
Hawaii Five-0
as Agent Devin Campbell
Chicago Med
as Mr. McGregor
FBI
as Mark Krawley
Monk
as Al Nicoletto
True Detective
as Major Leroy Salter
Person of Interest
as Detective Cameron
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Ticket Scalper
Goliath
as Cleft Chin
The Wire
as Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos
The Resident
as Edmund Carver
The Chosen
as Herod Antipas
Crossing Jordan
as Theo
The Shield
as Detective Paul Reyes
Lethal Weapon
as Frank Truno