Nigel Bennett

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Nigel Bennett
Bennett in Ontario, 2004
Born	(1949-11-19) 19 November 1949 (age 75) Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Education	Tettenhall College
Alma mater	University of Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Children	4

Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949)^[1] is an English-born Canadian actor, director and writer.^[1] He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the television series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.^[1]

Early life and education

Bennett was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.^[1] Bennett first started acting at eleven, playing a Roman citizen in a school production of Shaw's Antony and Cleopatra. He graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in theatre, and taught for a year and a half before beginning acting full-time. He had fifteen years of stage experience in Britain prior to moving to Canada. He attended Tettenhall College in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.^[1]

Career

He has been in a number of major films such as Murder at 1600,^[2] and The Skulls,^[2] and many other television series. He had recurring roles in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues,^[2] and Lexx.^[2]

Teaming up with writer P.N. Elrod, Bennett co-authored a series of acclaimed "James Bond with fangs" vampire adventure novels for Baen Books. The "Lord Richard, Vampire" trilogy includes Keeper of the King, His Father's Son, and Siege Perilous. He also contributed the short story "Wolf and Hound" to "Dracula's London," a collection edited by Elrod for Ace Science Fiction.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, he appeared in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At the Hotel,^[2] for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award.^[1]

Bennett keeps himself busy with additional film and television roles, stage work, convention and charity appearances. He was the artistic director of the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2006–07.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

See also

• List of residents of Wolverhampton

References

External links

• Nigel Bennett at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Nigel Bennett at the TCM Movie Database
• Nigel Bennett at Rotten Tomatoes
• Nigel Bennett at Behind The Voice Actors
• Nigel Bennett at TV Guide
• Nigel Bennett at Apple TV+
• Nigel Bennett at IMDb