Maurice Benard
Biography
Daytime Emmy Award winning Actor Maurice Benard joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Sonny Corinthos in August 1993. He briefly left the show for a year-long hiatus in December 1998. For his portrayal, Mr. Benard received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003. He was also nominated in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006 and 2011.
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Acting History
2023
Trials To Triumph: The Documentary as Mental Health Advocate
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022Passions as Father Thomas Rourke
2021Equal Standard as Captain Chavat Issak
2020The Story of Soaps as Self
2019Hold On as Peter Duran
2019Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter as John Gotti
2018Nightmare Cinema as Father Benedict
2017A Lover Betrayed as Detective Alvarez
2015Joy as Ridge
2015Celebrity Family Feud as Self - Contestant
2014The Ghost and the Whale as Joseph Hawthorne
2012OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie as Himself
2009Castle as Horatio Spate
2004Soapography
2000We Married Margo as Self
1999Restraining Order as Sicko
1997The View as Self
1994Mi Vida Loca
1992Ruby as Diego
1991Dark Justice
1991Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter as Desi Arnaz
1991Her Wicked Ways as Steve
1990DEA
1963General Hospital as Sonny Corinthos
1958When Will It Strike Noon
1953L'aventurière du Tchad
1952The Damned Lovers
1952The Truth About Bebe Donge as Professor Gaspéri (uncredited)