And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
At Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
Everything has an end.
I didn't get into this business because I thought I'd be adored by thousands of fans, but because I love doing it.
I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.
I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.
I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.
I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
I think that one of benefits of being on a critically acclaimed show is that people have an understanding that maybe you can act.
I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
I was always athletic, I did a lot of sports, so doing action was easiest for me.
I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.
I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.
I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.
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.
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.
It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
It's also about giving the best performance and producing the best product possible but that inevitably relates to cash.
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.
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
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.
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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.
The programme's evolving constantly, and it may well go back into more psychological horror - these things tend to go in cycles in long-running shows.
There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.
They're still keeping up the wonderfully inventive storylines, but for instance that movie, SEVEN, it's fairly graphic, but still very good.
Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.
We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.
When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.
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 auditioned for the part of Cal in Titanic in 1997.
He dated actress Lucy Liu. [1997 - 1998]
Fans called him "Ratboy" for his character of Krycek in the serie X-Files.
According to his agent, Nick has an incredible voice but won't put anything on tape. He likes to write songs and play the guitar - especially '70s music.
Nicholas Lea smokes, he also has his left ear pierced.
Favorite actors are Jimmy Stewart, Paul Newman, Spencer Tracy, Robert Redford, Chris Walken, Kate Hepburn, Meryl Streep, and Ingrid Bergman.
Hobbies include movies, music, reading, cooking, and sports: golf (he has a 12 handicap), tennis, soccer, rugby, skiing, and basketball. Favorite movies include Casablanca, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, (like Gillian Anderson) and Raging Bull.
Nicholas is a professional vocalist with 5 years as a frontman (the band was called BEAU MONDE), all collegiate sports, and British and Australian dialects. He also, served in the Canadian Navy, worked in a clothing store, went to art school for three years (he wanted to be an illustrator!).
Education: Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver, B.C. Canada (the Class of 1980)
Nicholas went to art school for three years to become an illustrator.
Served in the Canadian Navy.
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