A.J. Benza

Biography

A.J. Benza is a television host and American gossip columnist who started writing for Newsday while studying journalism at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Born in Brooklyn and raised in West Islip, New York, he became a gossip columnist for Newsday and later the New York Daily News. In the mid-1990s he appeared on the E! Entertainment Television show The Gossip Show, which led to talk show appearances. He was a co-host on High Stakes Poker for its first five seasons, working with Gabe Kaplan, and hosted Cold Turkey II in 2006. He acted in Rocky Balboa (2006) as L.C. Luco. He wrote the memoir 74 and Sunny, executive produced the film So B. It, and hosted programs for ReelzChannel. He has written for Star Magazine and RadarOnline and hosts the podcast Fame Is A Bitch.

64years old

Turns 65 on June 2in 202 days

Born June 2, 1962Brooklyn
Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Alfred Joseph Benza (birth name)

Movie Career

Films: 4
Career span: 23 years1996 to 2019

Every film, newest first

2019UntouchableIMDb rating 6.7
2006Rocky BalboaIMDb rating 7.1
2003Pauly Shore Is DeadIMDb rating 4.4
1996RansomIMDb rating 6.7

Genres

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A change of course
While he was in college, Benza started writing for Newsday. The paper soon took him on full-time as a gossip columnist, and he later did the same work for the New York Daily News.
Behind the camera
Benza shifted his focus to film and served as an executive producer on So B. It, a movie adapted from Sarah Weeks's award-winning young adult book. That film had its summer premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

A.J. Benza movies on Netflix

Untouchable2019IMDb rating 6.7as Self - Gossip Columnist
Rocky Balboa2006IMDb rating 7.1as L.C.
Pauly Shore Is Dead2003IMDb rating 4.4as A.J. Benza
Ransom1996IMDb rating 6.7as Reporter Guest

Also appeared in

Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)

Worked with

A.J. Benza made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Sylvester Stallone

Mel Gibson

Liev Schreiber

Dan Hedaya

Rosanna Arquette

Vince Vaughn

Sylvester StalloneDirector, 1 film

Ron HowardDirector, 1 film

Pauly ShoreDirector, 1 film

Films together

Sylvester Stallone1 film together, 2006
Sylvester Stallone's page
- Rocky Balboa2006IMDb rating 7.1Benza as L.C.Stallone as Rocky Balboa
Mel Gibson1 film together, 1996
Mel Gibson's page
- Ransom1996IMDb rating 6.7Benza as Reporter GuestGibson as Tom Mullen
Liev Schreiber1 film together, 1996
Liev Schreiber's page
- Ransom1996IMDb rating 6.7Benza as Reporter GuestSchreiber as Clark Barnes
Dan Hedaya1 film together, 1996
Dan Hedaya's page
- Ransom1996IMDb rating 6.7Benza as Reporter GuestHedaya as Jackie Brown
Rosanna Arquette1 film together, 2019
Rosanna Arquette's page
- Untouchable2019IMDb rating 6.7Benza as Self - Gossip ColumnistArquette as Himself
Vince Vaughn1 film together, 2003
Vince Vaughn's page
- Pauly Shore Is Dead2003IMDb rating 4.4Benza as A.J. BenzaVaughn as Vince Vaughn
Sylvester StalloneDirector, 1 film, 2006
All films by Sylvester Stallone
- Rocky Balboa2006IMDb rating 7.1Benza as L.C.
Ron HowardDirector, 1 film, 1996
All films by Ron Howard
- Ransom1996IMDb rating 6.7Benza as Reporter Guest
Pauly ShoreDirector, 1 film, 2003
All films by Pauly Shore
- Pauly Shore Is Dead2003IMDb rating 4.4Benza as A.J. Benza

Online

Official profiles and reference pages.

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