EP 359: - Actor Thaao Penghlis and In The Lost Treasures

Our guest today is actor and Greek historian Thaao Penghlis.  A role on General Hospital led to his four decades on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives, which has earned him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Leading Actor and a Soap Opera Digest Award for Favorite Return. He was one of soap’s favorite villains.

Thaao’s acting career went far beyond the soaps as he played master-of-disguise Nicholas Black on the 1989 prime-time revival of Mission: Impossible. He also starred in the miniseries Sadat, appeared opposite Omar Sharif and Jane Seymour in the miniseries adaptation of Sydney Sheldon’s Memories of Midnight, played a terrorist in the television film Under Siege with Peter Strauss and Hal Holbrook, and starred with Joanna Cassidy in the miniseries Tribe.

One thing remains, is his love of his Greek heritage. The grandson of Greek immigrants who migrated to Australia in the 1940s, Thaao celebrates his heritage in his acting, writing, cooking, travels and now his new podcast, In The Lost Treasures.

In The Lost Treasures, he channels his passion for Greek history and culture by exploring the Trilogy of Homer through the life of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who himself changed history by uncovering the real-life locations and treasures in the ancient epic poems.

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