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Nigel Bennett (born November 19, 1949 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He's best known for playing the vampire patriarch on the TV series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.

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He 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.

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.

He has four children. His first, Matthew is married with children and lives in Nigel's home country, England. The Second, Michael, is currently attending King's College in Halifax, Canada. Sam Bennett is attending high school in Toronto and Hannah, his daughter lives with her mother and Nigel in Nova Scotia.

Bennett continues busy with countless additional film and TV roles, stagework, convention and charity appearances. He was also the star of many Oatmeal Crisp commercials in the 1990s.

External links

• The Official Nigel Bennett website
• The Fanlisting for Nigel Bennett´s performance as Lucien Lacroix in "Forever Knight"

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