Canadian actor and singer, Alessandro Juliani, is best known for his roles as Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galacticaand as Dr. Emil Hamilton in Smallville. He is also the voice of Gambit in X-Men Evolution and of character “L” in the English version of the anime series Death Note for which he won the 2008 Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Award, Best Voice Actor (English). In addition to his film and television work, Juliani appears frequently on stage in Vancouver at the Vancouver Playhouse, the Vancouver Opera, and Bard on the Beach, and further afield at the Aldeburgh Festival in England and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival.
He has played the title role in Shakespeare’s Henry V at the Bard on the Beach, and last summer he worked together with his wife, Meg Roe, to compose the musical score for Bard on the Beach’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also crafted the music for Roe’s staging of The Tempest. Alessandro Juliani is the son of John Juliani, a producer, actor, and writer, and of Donna Wong-Juliani, founder of Opera Breve. He graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance.