Tony Amendola is an American actor and voice actor. He played the Jaffa master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1. He had a recurring role as revolutionary leader Edouard Kagame of Liber8 in the television show Continuum, and played Pinocchio's creator/father, Geppetto on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
He voiced the Elder in the Netflix Castlevania animated series.
Career[]
Amendola is known for widely diverse roles, such as the murderous drug dealer Santos Jimenez on Showtime's grisly drama Dexter, the long running role of Jaffa master Bra'tac in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, Liber8 leader Kagame on the Syfy show Continuum, Geppetto/Marco in ABC's fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time and the Catholic priest Father Perez in the 2014 horror film Annabelle, a role he reprised for the 2019 film The Curse of La Llorona.
Amendola plays a Spanish magistrate in the 1998 swashbuckler film The Mask of Zorro and appears as a separate character in its 2005 sequel. He portrays a Mexican marijuana farmer in the 2001 crime drama film Blow. His television appearances of note include roles on The X-Files, Seinfeld, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Angel, Alias, The Practice, Star Trek: Voyager and She-Wolf of London.
He also has a long history of stage performances and spent his first twelve years as an actor almost exclusively in the theater. His theater credits include Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, American Buffalo, Tupolski in The Pillowman, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
Amendola is the voice actor for Khadgar, one of the central characters of the video-game World of Warcraft. In 2019, he voiced Jedi researcher Eno Cordova in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Quotes about the animated series[]
- (On what made animated series so popular): "I have a confession to make. I lost about a month of sixth grade because I was in the back of the room reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. That is true. And I was frightened by it and I was excited by it and I just remember that.
In part it's sort of a classic story, and yet with Castlevania there is a modern twist on it. You have powerful females for instance and also because you get back to the pain of each individual character. So you see what makes Dracula who he is, what makes all of the various characters, you see a personal stake.
So it's not longer just good and evil. It's no longer in the old '30s and '40s and '50s where it was so clearly good and evil. It's always motivation and I really loved that. When I think about it, I think about heart and blood."
— Interview with Tony Amendola and Adetokumboh M'Cormack at Wales Comic Con 2020.
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