David Nykl
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David Nykl

Feb 7, 1967 - 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.

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Credits

Cast

Media
Movie2009HelenJohn
Movie2009The SeamstressDonny Plachtt
Movie1999Prague StoriesRichard's Friend (segment "Riziko")
Movie2004PterodactylHerbert
Movie1999Escape VelocityRussel
Movie2012Christmas MiracleDrake
Movie2013Chupacabra vs. the AlamoMedical Examiner
Movie1996Hidden in SilenceHenek
Movie2010Encounter with DangerElliot Maine
Movie2021Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer DulosClifford Reed
Movie2015AirSleeper
Movie1998Prague DuetGlen Hudson
Movie1998Act of WarGeorge Willmont
Movie2005Dreams in the Witch HouseCSI
Movie2015TomorrowlandScience Teacher
Movie2015The DevoutDr. Fisher
Movie2012Camera ShyCliff Gardner
Movie2010The Beast of Bottomless LakePaoul Moran
Movie2019WilliamPrincipal Bernstein
Movie2009Stargate Atlantis: Fans' ChoiceDr. Radek Zelenka
Movie1996Sacred CargoBrother Alexis
Movie2018Pat & Mat: Winter FunPat (Voice)
Movie2019Pat & Mat: DIY TroublesPat (Voice)
TV Show1998Cold Squad1
TV Show2002The Dead ZoneWaiter1
TV Show2004Stargate AtlantisDr. Radek Zelenka43
TV Show2017Dialing HomeSelf1
TV Show2005Masters of HorrorCSI1
TV Show1997Stargate SG-1Dr. Radek Zelenka1
TV Show2003Jake 2.0Vasily1
TV Show2011Mortal Kombat: LegacyLance1
TV Show2012ContinuumSergei1
TV Show2004Stargate AtlantisRadek Zelenka11
TV Show2011Once Upon a TimeFisherman1
TV Show2005SupernaturalLester Morris2
TV Show2012ArrowAnatoly Knyazev36
TV Show2015Minority ReportEli Winford1
TV Show2006EurekaDr. Steven Whiticus1
TV Show1999Joan of ArcDuke of Luxembourg2
TV Show1985Danger BayPeter1
TV Show2008SanctuaryStrickland1
TV Show2019Carnival RowConstable Boggs1
TV Show2008FringeReverend Marcus1
TV Show2019The SleepersGerald Lloyd6
TV Show2006PsychEvents Coordinator1
TV Show2025El TurcoPrince Francesco di Paulo4
TV Show2010Human TargetVincent Morgan1
TV Show2021Resident AlienDr. Carl Hodges1
TV Show1999Policajti z předměstí1

Crew

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