Nicholas Lea (born Nicholas Christopher Herbert; June 22, 1962) is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and of Tom Foss on Kyle XY.
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go.
And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
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 favorite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
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.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
I'm living in L. A. but my heart's in Vancouver.
I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.
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.
Everything has an end.
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
L. A. to me is not really an attractive place.
Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.