Thaao Penghlis (born December 15, 1945 in Sydney, Australia) is an Emmy-nominated actor best known for roles in U.S. daytime soap operas such as Days of Our Lives, Santa Barbara, and General Hospital, but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as Kojak, Cannon, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Hart to Hart, Nero Wolfe, and Magnum, P.I.. Penghlis has studied under Hollywood acting teacher Milton Katselas.
Thaao Penghlis appeared in the 1980s revival of Mission: Impossible, which was filmed in Australia. Thaao Penghlis' role in the revival was a counterpart to Martin Landau's "Rollin Hand" and Leonard Nimoy's the "Amazing Paris".
In 2003, Penghlis was nominated for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Favorite Return for his return to the cast of Days of Our Lives. He left the show in fall 2005.
Penghlis returned to Days on May 24, 2007 to reprise the role of the dastardly Andre DiMera. He also began reprising the role of nice guy Tony DiMera, Andre's look-alike cousin on July 17, 2007. Penghlis was nominated for "Outstanding Leading Actor" at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.
External links
Thaao Penghlis official website
Filmweb Graphics
Thaao Penghlis at TV.com
Thaao Penghlis at the Internet Movie Database
This article about an Australian actor or actress is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 277/1000000
Post-expand include size: 1871/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 602/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaao_Penghlis"
Categories: 1945 births | American soap opera actors | American television actors | Australians of Greek descent | Greek-Americans | Greek-Australian actors | Living people | Mission: Impossible | Australian actor stubs
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
Languages
Nederlands
Suomi
Svenska
This page was last modified on 11 July 2008, at 00:50.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
