Birthday: Oct 12, 1962

Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois, USA

Biography: Carlos Bernard Papierski is an American actor, best known for his role as Tony Almeida in 24. Bernard received a Master of Fine Arts degree from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, he performed in Scenes From an Execution, with Frank Langella.

He has guest starred in roles on Walker, Texas Ranger, F/X: The Series, Babylon 5, Maloney, and Silk Stalkings.

He has appeared as a regular on the daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless. He... ... (read more...) has appeared in feature films such as Vegas: C.O.D., The Killing Jar, and The Colonel's Last Flight.

However, throughout all these roles, he hadn't reached any major level of success until 2001 when he joined the cast of the FOX Network's television drama 24, where he played Tony Almeida, a government agent for a fictional agency called CTU (counter-terrorist unit).