Costas Mandylor (born Konstantinos Theodosopoulos; Greek: Κωνσταντίνος “Κώστας” Θεοδοσόπουλος, 3 September 1965) is an Australian actor and former footballer of Greek descent. He is best known for his role as Kenny in Picket Fences and for portraying Mark Hoffman in the Saw films.
Career
Mandylor’s first major role was in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit playing a European Jew, which was filmed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. He returned to Los Angeles meeting director Oliver Stone and auditioned and got the role of an Italian count in The Doors (1991). Mandylor landed a leading role in Mobsters playing Mafia boss Frank Costello. He went mentally prepared for the role, telling the Los Angeles Times, “It was interesting that I got that part, because I felt tuned in to gangsters, it was a genre I’d read a lot. When I was 13, I got a job as a dishwasher in a Melbourne nightclub and saw everything there, real gangsters, and had met characters who were dangerous people from an underground world.” In 1992 he had a lead role on the CBS television drama, Picket Fences, playing officer Kenny Lacos until the show ended in 1996. Mandylor also had a lead role in the Saw films as Detective Mark Hoffman. Mandylor, played for around a decade in the greek football club Ferntree Gully Victoria.
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