On NBC’s Days of Our Lives, Victor Kiriakis is a fictional character. John Aniston has played the role on and off since 1985. His character has been on the show since 1985, with a storyline-driven absence in 2004 when he was “killed off” but discovered alive on the island of Melaswen.

In 2017, Aniston was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Victor.

Victor was born in Nafplion, Greece, and moved to the United States as a child with his family.

Victor arrived in Salem in 1985 as an old friend of the Bradys. As time passed, it was revealed that he was not only a former paramour of Brady matriarch Caroline and the biological father of Bo Brady, but he was also involved in a number of shady business dealings in town.

Initially a quiet sponsor of a local drugs-and-prostitution ring, it was later revealed that Victor was a full-fledged mobster, with Mafia connections in Greece and Italy as well as throughout the US, partnerships and rivalries with other villains, and the subject of various investigations by local cops and a fictional crime-fighting spy agency called the International Security Alliance.

Is Victor Kiriakis still alive?

On Friday, November 11, John Aniston, who played Victor Kiriakis in nearly 3,000 episodes of “Days of Our Lives,” died. He was 89.