Age: 59
male
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.
David Nykl
Ianth Ki Sakka
for Ianth Ki Sakka in Star Wars: The Divine Sundering
Suggested by simonlynfl
Chaos spreads across the Galactic Republic. Once a bastion of peace, it has become riddled with corruption, as Crime Syndicates manipulate the Senate from the shadows. Senators beg the Jedi for help, but the Order, led by Grand Master Hemlin Coturk, refuses to intervene, holding fast to the Code. A faction of dissenting Jedi, led by Patren Shal, disagrees. Patren not only thinks that the Jedi must intervene, but too believes that, the only way to defeat the syndicates is to tap into the forbidden texts. Patren's followers, many young and ambitious, quickly grow in strength, spreading fear and corruption even within the Order itself. Seeing the lingering threat among these fallen Jedi, Grand Master Coturk and a handful of Masters go into their huts and eliminates each member, one by one; silently. Initially, these dark Jedi do not understand what is going on, though when they do, Patren rallies them, to take one last stand against the "weak," Jedi. Many dark Jedi die in this fight, but Patren, his apprentice, Lyssa Manin, and closest friend, Quarven Starros, survive. They flee into the unknown regions, training in secret, honing their mastery of the dark side, determined to one day seek revenge on the Jedi Order. Fearing the Dark Jedi will seize control of the galaxy, the Council makes a painful decision: the Jedi abandon their remote sanctuaries, including Ahch-To, and relocate to Coruscant. Drawn into the heart of galactic politics, they must safeguard freedom while confronting the shadows rising within their own ranks.
