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This article is about the Canada-based English actor and director. For the English cricketer, see Nigel Harvie Bennett.
Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series. [edit] Life and careerBennett has also been in a number of major films such as Murder at 1600 and The Skulls, and many, many other TV series. He had recurring roles in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Lexx. He also starred in a series of Oatmeal Crisp cereal commercials in the 1990s. Teaming up with writer P. N. Elrod, Bennett co-authored a series of acclaimed "James Bond with fangs" vampire adventure novels. So far they have written Keeper of the King, His Father's Son, and Siege Perilous for Baen Books. He also contributed to "Dracula's London," a collection edited by Elrod for Ace Science Fiction. In 2006, he appeared in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At The Hotel, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award. Bennett keeps himself busy with additional film and TV roles, stage work, convention and charity appearances. He was the artistic director of the world-renown Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, from 2006–2007. He has four children. His first, Matthew is married with children and lives in Spain. The second, Michael, a graduate of the King's College in Halifax, Canada, now attends university in London, Ontario. Sam Bennett is attending high school in Toronto and Hannah, his daughter lives with her mother and Nigel in Nova Scotia. Bennett's acting bug first bit him at age eleven when he played a Roman citizen in a school play—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 England prior to moving to Canada. He attended Tettenhall College in Wolverhampton. [edit] Filmography
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