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David Nykl 
David Nykl at Collectormania G-Mex 3Born 7 February 1967
Prague, CzechoslovakiaOccupation actor Website http://www.davidnykl.com David Nykl (born 7 February 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater.
After the Soviet invasion in 1968, he and his family left then-Communist Czechoslovakia for Canada. Upon arriving at Victoria, British Columbia, his father found work as a structural engineer and his mother found work as a nurse.
Nykl attended the University of British Columbia, where he majored in liberal arts.
Nykl has appeared heavily in Vancouver and Prague in dozens of theater, film and television productions. Known for his versatility and depth as an actor, he has also produced theatre and film projects, and in 1994, he co-founded Prague's Misery Loves Company Theatre with Richard Toth and Ewan McLaren.
He is known to science fiction fans as the recurring Stargate Atlantis character of Dr. Radek Zelenka, a Czech scientist on Earth's expedition to the "lost city" of Atlantis. His character often provides a foil to the main scientists, who forget the limits of their situation.
He is fluent in Czech, English, French and Spanish. Though his character on Stargate Atlantis speaks English with a Czech accent, Nykl normally speaks with a Canadian accent. Whenever Zelenka spoke Czech in Stargate Atlantis, Nykl was given the lines in English, and he translated them.
Filmography
Actor Year Title Media Role 2010 Fringe TV Series Reverend Marcus Human Target TV series Vincent Morgan 2009 Encounter with Danger TV movie Elliott Maine Stargate: Extinction Direct to DVD movie Dr. Radek Zelenka Helen TV series John Stargate: Atlantis TV series Dr. Radek Zelenka 2008 Sanctuary TV series Strickland The Beast of Bottomless Lake Feature The Seamstress Feature film Donny Platt 2007 Eureka TV series Dr. Steven Whiticus 2006 Psych TV series Events Coordinator for Shawn vs. the Red Phantom Stargate SG-1 TV series Dr. Radek Zelenka Merlin's Apprentice TV series Brianna's Father 2005 Masters of Horror TV series CSI Pterodactyl Feature film Herbert Behind the Camera: Mork & Mindy TV movie John Byner Cold Squad TV series Bernhardt (recurring) 2004 Spare Change Short film Joel 2003 Jake 2.0 TV series Vasily Stealing Sinatra TV movie Valet 2002 Dead Zone TV series Waiter My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star TV series Dancing Potato 2001 Bécka Feature Seven Days TV series Yuri 2000 Jack London’s Call of the Wild TV series Settler The Scarlet Pimpernel TV series Robespierre's Barber 1999 Love Lies Bleeding Feature Fraser Joan of Arc TV series Duke of Luxembourg Praha ocima Prague Stories Feature Honza 1998 Prague Duet Feature Journalist The Barber of Siberia Feature Operation Noah TV movie PR Man Act of War Feature George Willmont Ceská soda Feature Blumenstein Fernand - bláznuv príbeh Feature voice Hell Mountain Feature First Corridor Guard Escape Velocity Feature Russell aka the Priest 1997 Snow White: A Tale of Terror Feature 1996 Hidden in Silence TV movie Henek 5 Stunden Angst - Geiselnahme im Kindergarten Feature Drops Crackerjack 2 Feature Cavanaugh 1995 Sacred Cargo Feature Brother Alexis 1993 Strangeview Feature Trucker's Friend David Feature Bob 1988 Danger Bay TV series Peter External links
Categories: Canadian film actors | Canadian stage actors | Canadian television actors | Canadian people of Czech descent | Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada | Naturalized citizens of Canada | People from Prague | People from Victoria, British Columbia | 1967 births | Living people
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