

Cast & creator
Best known for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, The Vampire Diaries
Paul Telfer (born 30 October 1979 in Paisley, Scotland) is a British actor, who has lived and worked in both his native United Kingdom and the United States. Telfer graduated with First Class honours in Film Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1999. He has appeared in episodes of two Sky One series: Is Harry on the Boat? (2002) (as Matt, a handsome airline ground crew member who is tragically untalented on the dancefloor) and Mile High (2003) (as Rory, a male stripper). Telfer has also appeared in a series of ancient history and mythological epics: as Gannicus in the 2004 TV movie Spartacus, Hephaestion in the 2007 movie Young Alexander the Great and the title role in the 2005 TV miniseries Hercules.[1][2] In 2007, Telfer appeared in five episodes of the second series of the BBC drama Hotel Babylon (as Luke, a less-than-trustworthy concierge), and also in the TV series NCIS, in which he played Marine Corporal Damon Werth, a psychotic Marine recently returned from an Iraq tour of duty. The episode, "Corporal Punishment", was broadcast on CBS in the United States. He also appeared in 2 episodes in season 7, "Outlaws and In-laws" and "Jack Knife" as Damon Werth. Telfer has also lived in New Zealand during the past few years, and has co-written theatre work. Away from acting, he posed nude in the women's magazine Cosmopolitan in support of the testicular and prostate cancer charity Everyman. He appeared in the 2011 movie Son of Morning.
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film credits
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television credits
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1965–2024 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 22 of 22 credits

Rex
2000
Damon Werth
2003
Alexander
2009
Lord Macintosh
2011
Viro
2013
Angry Scholar #2 (voice)
2014
Xander Cook Kiriakis
1965
Luke
2006
Rory
2003
Gannicus
2004
Hercules
2005
Able Seaman McNeill
2024
Hephaestion
2010
Luca
2008
Jocko
2018
Reggie (segment 'Playing Dead')
2015
Glenn
2011
Xander Kiriakis
2021Fisk
2014
Tone Jimenez
2019
Ticker
2020
Writer
2020