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As a child and teenager, Daniel, was interested in sports and singing.
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Daniel's ex-wife, Lynda Medwell, was a potter.
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Daniel's father, Carlos Benzali, was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York.
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Daniel Benzali played Juan PerĂ³n in the London stage production of Evita.
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Daniel Benzali proposed to actress Kim Catrall by leaving a written proposal stuck to her refrigerator.
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Steven Bochco was so impressed with Daniel Benzali's guest appearances on L. A. Law and NYPD Blue that he cast the actor as Ted Hoffman in Murder One.
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For his performance as Ted Hoffman on Murder One, Daniel Benzali was nominated for the 1996 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series - Drama.
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He recorded a jazz album titled "Benzali" where he sings jazz standards.
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He stared as faded film director Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original cast (1993) of Andrew Lloyd Webber's play Sunset Boulevard.
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In London he performed as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was one of the few Americans ever invited to join them.
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He was engaged to Kim Cattrall in August 1996, but they broke-up in 1998.
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He co-starred in the Off-Broadway play "Naked" with Mira Sorvino.
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He moved to England in the 1970s to pursue a stage career.