Guest Stars

Many notable actors have brought to life memorable characters on La Femme Nikita. Here is some additional information about some of them.

KHANDI ALEXANDER
Episode(s): Soul Sacrifice
Character: Terry
Character Description: A pregnant cold op trying to get out of Section to save her child.
Best Known For: Her role as Catherine on the TV series, NewsRadio
Filmography: Poetic Justice, Menace II Society, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, CB4, There’s Something About Mary, etc.
Television: Guest role as Jackie Benton on ER. Starring role as Catherine Duke on NewsRadio
Biography: Khandi is a native New Yorker.

ADAM ANT
Episode(s): Threshold of Pain
Character: Craychek
Character Description: A sadistic terrorist that cannot feel pain.
Best Known For: His singing career in the 1980s
Filmography: Nomads, Slamdance, Cold Steel, World Gone Wild, Love Bites, Drop Dead Rock, Cyber Bandits, etc.
Television: Guest appearances on: Northern Exposure, Tales from the Crypt, The Equalizer, and Batman: The Animated Series
Biography: He led the band ‘Adam and the Ants’ in the early 1980s, and later became a soloist. His most famous hit was, “Good Two Shoes.” Born in London, England in 1954. Real name: Stuart Leslie Goddard.

NIGEL BENNET
Episode(s): Rescue, New Regime
Character: Petrosian
Character Description: A deep cover operative in Eastern Europe, and then temporary head of Section One.
Best Known For: His role as Lucien LaCroix on the TV series, Forever Knight
Filmography: Hitler’s Daughter, The Women of Windsor, Legends of the Fall, Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, Star Command, Murder at 1600, etc.
Television: Guest appearances: Total Recall 2070, Robocop: The Series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, John Woo’s Once a Thief, Earth: Final Conflict, F/X: The Series. Starring/Guest roles: Psi-Factor, LEXX, Forever Knight
Biography: Nigel Bennet is very active in theater and does many commercial voice-overs. Besides acting and direction, Nigel Bennet is co-authoring a series of vampire novels. He seems to be a favorite at fan conventions like Lights, Camera, Auction!
Website: www.blackhatstation.com

CELINE BONNIER
Episode(s): Off Profile
Character: Andrea Kosov
Character Description: A new mission profiler for Section, Andrea is tested and found wanting by Michael at Section's behest.
Best Known For: Her intense and technically skillful work as a Quebec actor in alternative theater.
Filmography: The Assignment, "Le Masque" (TV), Caboose, Le Sphinx,"Million Dollar Babies" (TV), Le Vent du Wyoming, Tectonic Plates.
Television: Guest appearances on "La Femme Nikita" and "The Hunger"

JOAQUIM DE ALMEIDA
Episode(s): Psychic Pilgrim
Character: Joaquin Armel
Character Description: A terrorist’s lawyer so devastated by the death of his young son that he turns to Nikita for help.
Best Known For: His role in Clear and Present Danger
Filmography: Clear and Present Danger, Only You, Desperado, numerous foreign films
Television: Guest appearance on Miami Vice
Biography: Joaquim was born in Lisbon, Portugal and is quite the international star overseas. He is married to a lovely woman, has two sons, and speaks several languages.
Website: www.hollys.com/joaquim/

VON FLORES
Episode(s): Treason
Character: Suba
Character Description: A nasty little piece of terrorist work attempting to steal nuclear waste. Suba kidnaps a fellow operative’s (Roger) son and blackmails him, leading to danger for Michael and Nikita.
Best Known For: His role as Agent Ronald Sandoval on the TV series, Earth: Final Conflict
Filmography: Renegades, Eclipse, Car 54 Where Are You?, Johnny Mnemonic
Television: Guest appearances on: Forever Knight, Lonesome Dove, The Adventures of Sinbad, FX: The Series. Starring/guest roles: Earth: Final Conflict, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, TekWar
Biography: Born in the Philippines, his full name is Valentin Andres Tanga Flores IV.
Website: www.angelfire.com/wa/Sandoval/

MARGOT KIDDER
Episode(s): Walk On By
Character: Roberta Wirth
Character Description: Nikita’s estranged, former-alcoholic mother.
Best Known For: Her role as Lois Lane in the Superman movies
Filmography: Superman, The Amityville Horror, Superman II, Superman III, The Emerald City of Oz, Superman IV, Maverick
Television: Guest appearances: The Mod Squad, Tales from the Crypt, Boston Common.
Biography: Margot Kidder was born in Canada in 1948 and has been married three times. She’s back on track after going through severe trauma with her manic depression and a car crash in 1990 which prevented her from working for two years.

JULIET LANDAU
Episode(s): Before I Sleep
Character: Jan/Sara
Character Description: Jan is a fearless courier, and Sara is her dowdy, terminally ill doppelganger.
Best Known For: Her role as Drusilla on the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Filmography: The Grifters, Pump Up the Volume, Ed Wood, Carlo’s Wake
Television: Guest appearances: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Millenium. Starring roles: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Biography: Born in 1971, the daughter of Martin Landau. The British accent isn’t real.
Website: www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/5145/

BRUCE PAYNE
Episode(s): Spec Ops, Third Person, Approaching Zero
Character: Jurgen
Character Description: Michael’s former trainer, a special operative brought in to reevaluate Nikita after her six month absence from Section. Nikita’s love interest. The man of many accents.
Best Known For: All those ‘B’ grade movies...either LFN or the soon-to-be released new Highlander film
Filmography: Smart Money, The Full Eclipse, Passenger 57, Necronomicon, One Man’s Justice, Sweepers, Warlock III, Highlander IV: World Without End
Television: Guest appearances on: The Equalizer, Tales from the Crypt, Cleopatra
Biography: Bruce Martyn Payne was born in England and moved to feature films after a successful career in theater.

CALLUM KEITH RENNIE
Episode(s): Gray, Choice
Character: Gray Wellman
Character Description: An architect, widower and single father whom Section believes has been slipped the Directory. He becomes Nikita’s love interest.
Best Known For: His role as Detective Stanley Ray Kowalski on the TV series, Due South
Filmography: Timecop, Hard Core Logo, Excess Baggage, Men With Guns, Masterminds, Last Night, eXistenZ, etc.
Television: Guest appearances: The Commish, Lonesome Dove, The X-Files, Highlander: The Series, Forever Knight, The Outer Limits, Viper. Starring roles: My Life as a Dog, Due South, Twitch City
Biography: Born in 1960 in England before his family relocated to Edmonton, Canada. CKR has played a variety of quirky roles with his hoser accent and experimental blonde hair, winning a Gemini and a Genie award. He has a Champion spark tattoo and, like Roy Dupuis, went through a heavy drinking phase. CKR likes to do his own stunts and no one seems to know why his nickname is “The Bodyhammer.”
Website: www.CallumRennie.com

SEAN WHALEN
Episode(s): Mercy
Character: Stanley Shays
Character Description: A brilliant, geeky young chemist whom Nikita must sacrifice in order to escape from Section.
Best Known For: Got Milk? TV ads. The peanut butter guy.
Filmography: Idle Hands, Never Been Kissed, Suicide Kings, Men in Black, That Thing You Do!, The Cable Guy, Twister, Waterworld, Batman Returns, etc.
Television: Guest appearances in: Martial Law, Just Shoot Me, Nash Bridges, Nowhere Man, The Adventures of Lois & Clark, Friends, etc.
Biography: Besides acting, Sean Whalen also writes and directs.
Website: www.angelfire.com/ma/cristos/

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