Costas Mandylor
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The ThumbScore for Costas Mandylor (75.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 8 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Costas's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Costas Mandylor (born Costas Theodosopoulos; 3 September 1965) is an Australian actor. He made his film debut with a supporting role in Triumph of the Spirit (1989) before a lead role as Frank Costello in the crime drama film Mobsters (1991). Mandylor has his breakout with a main role as Officer Kenny Lacos on the CBS drama television series Picket Fences (1992–1996), which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
During the 1990s, Mandylor starred in the film Fist of the North Star (1995) and a main role as Alphonse Royo on the NBC television series Players (1997–1998). Mandylor had a lead role as Monk on the UPN television series Secret Agent Man (2000) and portrayed soccer player Charlie Colombo in the film The Game of Their Lives (2005). After a minor role in the horror film Saw III (2006), Mandylor experienced a career resurgence with a starring role as Detective Mark Hoffman in the film's sequel, Saw IV (2007). He later became the film's main antagonist in Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009), and Saw 3D (2010), and reprised his role with a cameo in Saw X (2023).
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, in Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009) and Saw 3D (2010). He also made a cameo appearance in Saw X (2023).
Born 1965-09-03 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
On ThumbScore, Costas Mandylor appears in 8 films with an average audience score of 75.0%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.
