1. Nicholas Campbell was born on 24 March 1952 and is a Canadian actor and filmmaker.
18 Facts About Nicholas Campbell
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Nicholas Campbell is a four-time Gemini Award winner, a three-time Genie Award nominee, and a Canadian Screen Award nominee.
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Nicholas Campbell is known for his portrayal of the eponymous character, coroner Dominic Da Vinci, on the crime drama television series Da Vinci's Inquest and its spin-off Da Vinci's City Hall.
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In film, Campbell is known for his collaborations with director David Cronenberg, starring in Fast Company, The Brood, The Dead Zone, and Naked Lunch.
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Nicholas Campbell has notably appeared in A Bridge Too Far, The Boys Club, New Waterford Girl, Prozac Nation, Turning Paige, Cinderella Man, and Goon.
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Nicholas Campbell went to Toronto's Upper Canada College and Kingston's Queen's University where he originally studied Political Studies but later switched to English and Drama.
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Nicholas Campbell continued his studies in England studying five years at Drama Studio London and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Nicholas Campbell spent 40 weeks touring the country with the York Theatre Royal Repertory Company.
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Nicholas Campbell subsequently played small roles in The Eagle Has Landed, the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, and the World War II epic A Bridge Too Far.
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Nicholas Campbell's co-starred in the 1977 ITV televised play Come Back, Little Sheba, opposite Laurence Olivier, Joanne Woodward and Carrie Fisher.
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Nicholas Campbell's starring film and television credits include series leads on Diamonds and The Hitchhiker.
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Nicholas Campbell has worked extensively with David Cronenberg, appearing in such films as Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Fast Company, and The Brood.
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Nicholas Campbell has made guest appearances on TV shows including Space: 1999, Airwolf, Blue Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Street Legal, Republic of Doyle, and Highlander: The Series.
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Nicholas Campbell wrote and directed the 1992 documentary film Stepping Razor: Red X, which received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 14th Genie Awards.
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Nicholas Campbell received the Gemini Award for best performance in a continuing leading dramatic role for his work on the series.
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Nicholas Campbell directed a number of episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest, being nominated in 2003, for the Directors Guild of Canada team drama award.
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In October 2022, Nicholas Campbell was suspended from the CBC television series Coroner, after an incident where he referred to a Black grip technician as a "nigger" on a different production.
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Nicholas Campbell apologized in a statement to CBC News, but claimed he did not say any slurs, and was repeating a story secondhand.