David Nykl

Known for ActingBorn 1967-02-07 (age 59)Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Nykl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Camera Shy

Sacred Cargo

Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice

Supernatural

Stargate SG-1

Fringe

Stargate Atlantis

Resident Alien

Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos

Psych

Carnival Row

Eureka

El-Turk

Death by Lightning

Continuum

Once Upon a Time

Sanctuary

Human Target

The Dead Zone

Danger Bay

Masters of Horror

Hidden in Silence

Jake 2.0

Cold Squad

Mortal Kombat: Legacy

Arrow

The Sleepers

Joan of Arc

Helen

Pat & Mat: DIY Troubles

Dreams in the Witch House

Tomorrowland

Prague Duet

Minority Report

William

Christmas Miracle

Pat & Mat: Winter Fun

The Devout

Dialing Home

Air

Encounter with Danger

Prague Stories

Chupacabra vs. the Alamo

Escape Velocity

Act of War

Pterodactyl

The Seamstress

Crackerjack 2