Paul Ben-Victor

Paul Ben-Victor (born Paul Friedman; July 24, 1965[1]) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Greek mobster Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos on the HBO drama series The Wire.
== Early life ==
Ben-Victor was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman.
== Career ==
Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the television film Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife and on an episode of Cagney & Lacey.[2] 15 years after beginning his television career with bit parts, he was cast in important roles on HBO dramas The Wire (as mobster Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos) and Entourage, as well as making a 2006 appearance as Coach Lou on My Name Is Earl. He portrayed Moe Howard in the 2000 television 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. He has co-written stage plays with his mother, including Club Soda and The Good Steno.[3]
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 ("Hoosier Daddy"), on which Ben-Victor has a supporting role.
In 2008, Ben-Victor had a supporting role in the film Clear Lake, WI.[4] In August 2008, he co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.[5]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1990	The Rookie 	Little Felix 	
1991	Body Parts 	Ray Kolberg 	
1992	Cool World 	Valet 	
1993	Tombstone 	Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz	
1993	True Romance 	Luca 	
1994	Red Scorpion 2 	Vince D'Angelo 	
1995	Houseguest 	Pauly Gasperini 	
1995	Bushwhacked 	Dana's Father 	
1996	Maximum Risk 	Agent Pellman 	
1997	The 6th Man 	Bernie 	
1997	Metro 	Clarence Teal 	
1998	Point Blank 	Howard 	
1998	A Civil Action 	Bobby Pasqueriella 	
1999	The Corruptor 	Schabacker 	
2000	Drowning Mona 	Deputy Tony Carlucci 	
2000	Gun Shy 	Howard 	
2003	Daredevil 	Jose Quesada 	
2006	Randy and The Mob 	Franco 	
2009	Clear Lake, WI 	Sheriff Joe Dietzer 	
2010	Should've Been Romeo 	Joey 	
2012	Mighty Fine 	Bobby 	
2013	Don Jon 	Priest 	
2013	Empire State 	Tommy 	
2013	Once Upon a Time in Queens	Vinnie Nero 	
2013	Grudge Match 	Lou Camare 	
2014	By the Gun 	Vincent Tortano 	
2014	Friends and Romans 	Dennis Socio 	
2015	Get Hard 	Gayle 	
2016	Love Is All You Need? 	Principal Birdsell 	
2018	Monster 	Anthony Petrocelli 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1994 	State of Emergency 	Trevor Jacobs 	Television film
1994 	The X-Files 	Dr. Aaron Monte 	Episode: "Tooms"
1996 	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Carney / Man on Stilts	Episodes: "Baby It's You" & "Monsters Are Fun"
1994–1997	NYPD Blue 	Steve Richards 	2 episodes
1998 	Brooklyn South 	 	Episode: "Skel in a Cell"
1999 	Early Edition 	Elliot Rosenfield 	Episode: "Funny Valentine"
2000 	The Invisible Man 	Bobby Hobbes 	46 episodes
2000 	The Three Stooges 	Moe Howard 	Television film
2003–2008	The Wire 	Spiros Vondas 	14 episodes
2005 	Monk 	Al Nicoletto 	
2005–2008	Entourage 	Alan Gray 	7 episodes
2006 	The Shield 	Detective Paul Reyes 	
2006 	My Name Is Earl 	Coach Lou 	
2007 	John from Cincinnati 	Palaka 	8 episodes
2008–2012	In Plain Sight 	Stan McQueen 	
2009 	Everybody Hates Chris 	Thurman 	7 episodes
2010 	The Mentalist 	Noah Landau 	
2011 	Childrens Hospital 	Spiros 	
2013 	Vegas 	Barry Silver 	4 episodes
2013 	Mob City 	Jack Dragna 	3 episodes
2013 	Person of Interest 	Detective Cameron 	1 episode
2014 	True Detective 	Major Leroy Salter 	1 episode
2014 	Castle 	Dino Scarpella 	1 episode
2015 	Allegiance 	Special Agent Faber 	5 episodes
2016 	Vinyl 	Maury Gold 	
2017 	The Mick 	Jerry Berlin 	2 episodes
2017 	Preacher 	Viktor Kruglov 	
2018 	Goliath 	Cleft Chin 	1 episode