Once A Thief - Cast




Canadian-born actor Nicholas Lea stars as Victor, the maverick ex-cop competing with Mac for Li Ann's love. Lea appeared in the feature film Bad Company, starring Ellen Barkin and Laurence Fishburne. Other feature film credits include The Raffle, From Pig to Oblivion, Extro II, Star 80, and American Boyfriends, directed by noted Canadian director Sandy Wilson. His numerous television appearances include five seasons as Alex Krycek on The X-Files and three seasons as Enrico Caruso on The Commish, as well as guest-starring roles on Maloney, Burning Zone, Jake and The Kid, Lonesome Dove, Sliders, Robin's Hoods, The Marshal, and the Alliance Communications television productions E.N.G., North of 60, Taking the Falls, Highlander, and Madison. An accomplished musician, Lea spent five years as the lead singer for the alternative rock band "Beau Monde."

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Krycek/Nick Lea Shrine
Lair of The Rat
Nick Lea Page
With Nick Lea
Sandrine Holt plays Li Ann Tsei, the exotic and alluring adopted daughter of the formidable "Godfather". Born in the UK and raised in Toronto, the multi-lingual actress starred as Pocahontas in the feature film Pocahontas: The Legend. Her other film credits include a lead role in Rapa Nui, with Jason Scott Lee and Esai Morales, co-produced by Kevin Costner for Warner Bros., Esperanza (Tales of the Wild), triple Genie Award nominated Dance Me Outside, and the Alliance Communications production Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy), for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. This film, which garnered six awards in various categories was named "One of the Year's Ten Best Pictures of 1991" by Time Magazine, the L.A. Times, and the Globe and Mail. Holt's television roles include Poltergeist, New York Undercover, The Outer Limits, Two, and the NBC pilot The Conversation.


Writers Davis and Laurin call Ivan Sergei's character Mac, the adopted street-smart son of the "Godfather", a "new wave Errol Flynn." His feature film credits include Dangerous Minds, directed by John N. Smith (The Boys of St. Vincent) and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Gunfighter's Moon, and Clean Break. He has guest starred on Party of Five, Cybill, The Kindred, Touched By An Angel, and the made for television movies The Rockford Files: Field Trip to a Funeral, Up Against It, In the Fold, If Someone Had Known, Bionic Ever After, and Mother May I Sleep With Danger. His stage roles include "A Few Good Men", "Stage Door", "Shadow Box," and "The Actor's Nightmare." Sergei divides his time between Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.




Canadian actress Jennifer Dale stars as "The Director," the imposing figurehead of an elite crime-fighting unit. In 1995, she was a series lead in the CBC's medical drama Side Effects. Nominated for several Genie and Gemini Awards, including one for Thunder In My Head, her feature film credits include Suzanna, Ticket to Heaven, Of Unknown Origin, Separate Vacations, Cadillac Girls, The Adjuster, Whale Music (with Paul Gross of Due South on which she has also made a guest appearance,) and Paper Trail. As a member of the Board of Women in Film and Television Toronto, she was one of the co-founders of a workshop studio for actors, writers, and directors. Her sister Cynthia Dale is also a very well-known Canadian actress.

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Jennifer Dale Page
Movie Guide