Elias Toufexis is a successful film, theatre and television actor also famous for his extensive performance capture and voice-over career. Based in Los Angeles, California, he is well known for his work in the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres. The most popular characters he has played so far include villain Andriy Kobin in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Toufexis grew up in Montreal and studied theatre at the city’s Dawson College. He then moved to New York in 2001 where he began to appear in fringe festival plays and off-on Broadway productions. He then returned to Montreal where he took on a leading role in Decoys, a Canadian science fiction comedy movie.
After moving to British Columbia, Canada, Toufexis landed several acting roles including The Five People You Meet In Heaven alongside Jeff Daniels and Jon Voight. His big break then came after he landed the part of Webber in Supernatural, followed by numerous guest roles in TV shows including Criminal Minds, Flash Gordon, Lost Girl and Stargate Atlantis.
He began his glittering performance capture and video game voice-over career with Need for Speed in 2006, and has since played the lead character in numerous multi-million dollar projects including The Call Of Duty Series, The Assassin’s Creed Series and The Fortnite Series. Toufexis is one of the world’s busiest performance capture actors in the world and has been dubbed “The Canadian Andy Serkis” by Variety.