Nicholas Lea

Nicholas Lea

Nicholas Lea (born June 22, 1962 in New Westminster , British Columbia as Nicholas Christopher Schroeder ) is a Canadian actor who became known to German-speaking audiences through the television series The X-Files , in which he played the role of "Alex Krycek".

Life

Lea made his screen debut in small film productions in 1989, but he got his first leading role in 1991 as "Officer Enrico Caruso" in the Canadian television series The Police Chief . He later took part in several episodes of the popular TV series The X-Files , which meant something like the breakthrough in his career as an actor for Nicholas Lea. In the following years he also played in several episodes of CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators . There he took on the role of a nightclub owner with whom Catherine Willows, played by Marg Helgenberger , was briefly in a relationship.

Filmography (selection)

• 1991–1994: The Police Chief ( The Commish , TV series, 33 episodes)
• 1994–2002: The X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI ( The X-Files , TV series, 24 episodes)
• 1995–1996: Sliders - The Gate into a Foreign Dimension ( Sliders , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1996–1998: John Woo's Die Unfassbaren ( Once a Thief , TV series, 23 episodes)
• 1998/1999: Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension ( The Outer Limits , TV series, episodes 4x26 & 5x17)
• 2000: Vertical Limit
• 2001: Ignition (Ignition)
• 2003: Moving Malcolm
• 2003: Insects - The brood from space
• 2003-2004: Andromeda (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2004: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2005: Don't Trust Strangers (Deadly Isolation)
• 2005: Category 7 - The End of the World (Category 7: The End of the World)
• 2005: chaos
• 2006: The Secrets of Whistler ( Whistler , TV series, 13 episodes)
• 2006–2009: Kyle XY (TV series, 26 episodes)
• 2007: Playing with fear (Butterfly on a Wheel)
• 2007–2008: Men in Trees (TV series, 10 episodes)
• 2008: Vice
• 2010–2011: V - The Visitors ( V , TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2012: Once Upon a Time - Once Upon a Time ... ( Once Upon a Time , TV series, episode 1x09)
• 2012: Supernatural (TV series, episode 7x12)
• 2012: The Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivated ( The Philadelphia Experiment , Movie for TV)
• since 2012: Continuum (TV series)
• 2013: The Killing (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2016: Navy CIS: New Orleans (TV series) S2E21

Trivia

• Nicholas Lea had a brief guest appearance in the episode Temptations (Gender Bender) as a certain Michael who was about to become the victim of murder before playing the role of Alex Krycek on the X-Files .

Web links

• Nicholas Lea in the Internet Movie Database (English)