Elias Toufexis is a theater, television and film actor.
Biography
Toufexis started out as a stage actor. He has written and performed in numerous plays in New York, Vancouver and Montreal. He has also written and performed in sketch comedy shows throughout his career.
He has been in such films and TV shows as Supernatural, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Dead Like Me, Smallville, Blade The Series His theatre credits include playing Hamlet in Hamlet, Cassius in Julius Caesar, and roles in 7 Stories, Pericles, Problem Child, Refuge, A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has been in the video games Need for Speed: Carbon, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Assassin's Creed, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Assassin's Creed II, Max Steel: Bio Hazard, Max Steel: Dark Rival and End War.
He is a prominent voice actor performing in multiple cartoons, video games and dozens of radio commercials.
In 2009 he produced and directed a music video for the hip-hop artist Annakin Slayd called "Dougie Gilmore".
In 2010 he started production as director and actor on a short film entitled The Partner.
Toufexis was voted number #9 best actor from Montreal in The Montreal Mirror in 2004. In 2005 he was voted #3. He was voted #9 in 2006, #4 in 2007 and #6 in 2009.
Filmography
- Conduct Unbecoming (2010)
- Lost Girl (2010)
- The Partner (short) (2010)
- Sand Serpents (2009)
- Ba 'AL (2008)
- South Of Houston St. (2008)
- Flash Gordon (2007)
- Painkiller Jane (2007)
- Smallville Static (2006)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2004)
- Connor's War (2006)
- Decoys (2004)
- Engaged To Kill (2006)
- Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
- Bloodsuckers (2005)
- Brilliant (2003)
- Supernatural (2006)
- Blade: The Series (2006)
- Stargate Atlantis (2006)
- Dead Like Me (2004)
- Dead Zone (2004)
- Fries With That (2003)
- The Days (2004)
- Da Vinci's Inquest (2005)
- The Collector (2005)
Video games and cartoons (selected)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Splinter Cell Conviction
- Assassin's Creed II
- H.A.W.X
- Silent Hunter 5
- Max Steel: Dark Rival
- End War
- Suikoden Tierkreis
- Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
- Max Steel: Bio Crisis
- Need For Speed Carbon
Personal
Toufexis was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He acts in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.