- Born
- Birth nameIllya George Toufexis
- Height1.80 m
- He has been a clue on Jeopardy!
- He was awarded the signing of the Golden Book of Montreal (akin to getting the key to the city)
Elias grew up in Montreal and now lives in Los Angeles. He has played dozens of major characters on television, in games, and in animation. He is most well-known on television for his roles on The Expanse and his major villain role on Star Trek: Discovery. He is one of the busiest performance capture actors in the world, with characters in video games, films, and television. Variety has called him "The Canadian Andy Serkis"
In the video game world, he's played leading characters in many multi-million dollar projects: the Assassin's Creed series, the Deus Ex series, the Call of Duty series, the Fortnite series, the Splinter Cell series, the Far Cry series, the Immortals Fenyx Rising series, Gotham Knights, Walking Dead, and more.
He has a cult following around the world for his work in performance capture and voice in video games. Forbes Magazine called him a "voice-acting heavyweight".
He has also become one of the most prominent voice actors in the business. You can hear him as one of the leads in the Netflix animated series Blood Of Zeus or in Adult Swim's Blade Runner Black Lotus. You can hear him as the voice of Yellow Pages, McDonald's, Lexus Cars, Taco Bell, and many, many more radio and TV voice-over commercials.- IMDb mini biography by: eliastoufexis.com
- SpouseMichelle Boback(June 23, 2007 - present) (2 children)
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Calm lifting voice
- His hometown local paper, The Montreal Mirror, rated him the third most popular actor from Montreal after William Shatner and Jay Baruchel.
- Is a huge fan of DC Comics' Batman.
- The mayor of Elias' hometown of Montreal asked Elias to sign the Gold Book of the city. Elias traveled back home for a ceremony at City Hall. He was joined by William Shatner, Brent Spiner, John Barrowman, Peter Cullen, Manu Bennet, and Michael Ironside in signing the cherished Gold Book of Montreal.
- Once trained as a professional wrestler.
- He enjoys lending his voice to video game characters. In his words, "It's fun to be able to shoot myself in a game.".
- I don't have a dream role as much as I have a dream of working with great people. I've achieved some of that with Michael Imperioli, Jon Voight etc...there are, of course, many others that I dream of working with. (On his dream role - TV Guide 2005)
- I want people to know the character they're watching is completely performed by the actor: facial movement to body movement to, yes, the voice. It's exactly as if the actor were playing a character on film or television. Except the performance is handed over to the tech geniuses, who help make the actor's performance even better. Sometimes they add a little extra movement, sometimes they eliminate a fleeting glance. But the core of the performance is crafted completely by the actor.
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