Nigel Bennett

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Nigel Bennett, 2004

Nigel Bennett (born November 19, 1949 in Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , England , Great Britain ) is a British- Canadian actor in theater and film and a writer .

Life and accomplishments

Nigel Bennett trained as an actor at the University of Wales . He has appeared and performed on British theater stages such as the West End in London, the Phoenix Theater and Haymarket Theaters in Leicester and the Crucible Theater in Sheffield . After a fifteen-year career, he moved to Canada in 1986 for private reasons and worked in over a hundred film and television projects as well as in advertisements.

Bennett played supporting roles in the action thriller Narrow Margin (1990) with Gene Hackman , in the drama Legends of Passion (1994) with Brad Pitt and in the action thriller Murder in the White House (1997) with Wesley Snipes . He played the role of the seedy OSIR boss Frank Elsinger in the mystery series PSI Factor (1996–1999) .

Bennett in 1996 won a Canadian Gemini Award as best supporting actor for the drama series Forever Knight - The Vampircop ( Forever Knight ) for subsequent Curiouser and Curiouser . He first directed this television series, in which he played the ancient vampire Lucien LaCroix . In 1993 he received a nomination for this series at the Gemini Awards and in 2002 for the dramatic television series Lexx , each for best supporting actor.

As a two-time guest star in the dramatic television series Nikita with Peta Wilson , he portrayed Colonel Egran Petrosian , who, as a Russian secret agent, spins a power intrigue against his superior. Jon Cassar directed both episodes . He and Bennett had worked together on the Nick Knight series . Together with John Kapelos, they founded the Motion Picture Industry Charitable Alliance ( MPICA ). In their annual event Lights, Camera, Auction ( LCA ), filmmakers auctioned props donated to fans.

As a writer Bennett, together with author PN Elrod the co-author of three fantasy novels Keeper of the King , His Father's Son and Siege Perilous . You also wrote the short story Wolf and Hound for the anthology Dracula in London .

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SURNAME Bennett, Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian actor in theater and film and a writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , England , UK