Dennis Boutsikaris

Dennis Boutsikaris (born December 21, 1952) is an American character actor who has won the Obie Award twice. He is also a narrator of audiobooks and for which he has won 13 Golden Earphone Awards and 8 Audie Awards. And won Best Audiobook of the Year from Amazon for his reading of Audie Award.

Boutsikaris was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a Greek American father and Jewish mother,[1] and grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.[2] He took up acting while a student at Governor Livingston High School, because he felt he was too small to succeed in athletics.[3] A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Boutsikaris toured the country with John Houseman’s The Acting Company doing classical theatre.