Jeff Trachta

Jeff Trachta (born October 6, 1960 in Staten Island, New York) is an American actor, recording artist, comedian, and Las Vegas headliner.

Trachta was the son of a Sears television salesman, Trachta remarked "Dad sold TVs for a living but never lived long enough to see me on one". Trachta recalled that his parents were not fond of him choosing show business as a career.

Trachta’s break in Hollywood was as the soap opera character Thorne Forrester on the CBS show The Bold and the Beautiful. He starred in the role for eight years.

Trachta’s debut album "Bold and Beautiful Duets", with Bobbie Eakes, soared to the top of the European charts within one month of its release. "Duets" was the first of his three albums, all of which have achieved triple platinum sales worldwide. Trachta has performed sold-out concerts in stadiums and arenas around the world including Holland, Switzerland, Italy, India, Finland, Germany, Belgium and South Africa.

Trachta made his Broadway debut starring as Danny Zuko in Tommy Tune’s revival of Grease at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. He also starred in the award-winning one-man play Agency, which ran for over a year in Los Angeles. Trachta received rave reviews and won the coveted Robby Award and Los Angeles Critic Choice Award for Best Performance in a Solo Comedy Play. The show, which Trachta co-wrote, was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. Trachta received an Ovation nomination and won the 1998 Dramalogue Award for Best Comedy Performance for his role as Kenny Brewster in the Los Angeles premiere of Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down. The Los Angeles Times states, “Trachta’s Kenny is a subversive, tragicomic tour-de-force. Whether he’s playing a Chihuahua in hysterics, singing a heartfelt ballad, or charting the crackup of a comic genius, Trachta is superb.”

Trachta’s other stage credits include: The Phantom in Phantom Of The Opera; Conrad Birdie in Bye, Bye, Birdie with Rue McClanahan, The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors; Andy in Love Letters; Prince Charming in Cinderella, with Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Rose Marie, Mr. Newman’s father in the world premiere of The Education of Randy Newman and Joseph in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at ArtPark in New York. In the fall of 2000, Trachta performed in a national tour of Nuncrackers playing Father Virgil.

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