You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don’t fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

About Nicholas Lea

Nicholas Leais a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and of Tom Foss on Kyle XY.

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Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I’m trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I felt that K wasn’t getting a fair shake anyway.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

It’s certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it’s also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I’m not Russian.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

And I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I think everyone has some fascination with what’s outside our existence. It’s a constant journey to find the truth.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

It changed my life in a lot of ways – before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I’ve done.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

There’s one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian’s decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

When you’re doing a series like this, you’re constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I’m living in L.A. but my heart’s in Vancouver.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I’ve spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

At Christmas, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it’s coming.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

That’s sort of what I like about this character is that he’s not the good guy, he’s not truly the bad guy.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I don’t care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it’s all about time and money eventually.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don’t fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

When I’m on my deathbed, I’ll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books – pages and pages on it.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it’s important to give it our best shot.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

I just wanted to act. I didn’t want to do anything else.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

It’s not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

My sister is a nurse and saves people’s lives.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

My heritage is English, so I’m proud to be back here.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

Everything has an end.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor

It seems there’s a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Nicholas Lea

Canadian actor