Lisa Ryder had a guest role in this week's episode of Murdoch Mysteries (Season 15, episode 19)!

Nigel Bennett made a movie last year called The Family, which recently premiered at the Buson International Film Festival in South Corea (don't ask me why there). While the plot sounds rather creepy and disturbing (it's categorised as a genre-bending thriller), it's nice to see that his part seems to be quite huge ( Read more... )

Nigel Bennett has recurring roles in Coroner and Tin Star.

Coroner is a new crime series about a newly appointed female coroner set in Toronto. Nigel plays the chief coroner. He first appears in episode 4. Coroner airs Mondays on CBC.

In the second season of Tin Star Nigel plays a leading member of a secluded religious community in Alberta. He ( Read more... )

Nigel had a guest appearance in this week's episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries. He plays a shady magician. Brief, but nicely mysterious.

Nigel recently had a guest role in Designated Survivor. He plays a former benefactor of Kiefer Sutherland's president while he was still an architect. After the president finds out that Nigel's character had withheld information about an indigenious tribe being evicted for land development he seeks a way to stop the project. Nigel and Kiefer ( Read more... )

Finally I saw The Shape of Water in the movie theatre. What a delightful film! A nice change from today's action-packed movies. Instead it was wonderfully nostalgic with a lot of nods towards classic Hollywood. Ranging from Jack Arnold's Creature from the Black Lagoon over Betty Grable to Mr. Ed. The sentence "Bonanza is too violent for kids" was ( Read more... )

Sadly, FK alumni Richard McMillan passed away last Sunday after a battle with cancer. He played Brother Matthew in the flashback of first season's Dying to Know You and Lindley in second season's Can't Run, Can't Hide.

A detailed orbituary can be found here.

Stage:

Geraint Wyn Davies is currently on stage in Liv Stein at the Bluma Apple Theatre, Toronto. The German play by Nino Haratischwili about a world-class concert pianist who gives up her career after her son's death had its English-language premiere last week, runs through Feb 12.

Nigel Bennett is currently on stage in The Audience at the Royal ( Read more... )

Geraint Wyn DaviesGeraint is currently appearing at the Stratford Festival in "Breath of Kings: Rebellion" and "Breath of Kings: Redemption". The 2 plays are a new destillation of Shakespeare's 4 history plays "Richard II", Henry IV - Part 1", Henry IV - Part 2", and "Henry V". Geraint plays Sir John Falstaff, Captain Fluellen, and the Old Gardener ( Read more... )

Nigel Bennett had a brief appearance in last week's episode of Rookie Blue (season 5, episode 5), the Canadian police series set in Toronto (sounds familiar?). Nigel played a psychiatrist who was called in as a witness. The officer who questioned him was played by Ben Bass who is a regular in the series. :)