[image description: gif set of 5 animated gifs from Without a Trace, where Nicholas Lea plays a corrupt senator.  1) He leans against the jamb of his front door and gestures to the detectives to leave with a sarcastic flick of his wrist.  2) The detective holds up a warrant.  Nicholas Lea makes an impotent, defeated little grab for it; the detective pulls it out of his reach and walks past him into the house.  3) Lea sits in a car with the actress playing his wife.  He holds up a phone and waves it sarcastically at her.  4) Lea, in the same car, makes a nastily skeptical gesture and facial expression at a crying girl.  5) Lea leans across the front seat to kiss his wife with a pleased smile; she casually and coldly pushes him aside.]

I LOVED him in this episode.  He did a lot of small physical comedy—while wearing a suit!  Plus I dig the gray in his hair.

[image description: animated gif of Nicholas Lea as Tom Foss in Kyle XY.  He leaps on a man from behind, efficiently snapping his neck and letting the body drop to the ground.  The camera pans around to face him as he pants and straightens his black long-sleeved T-shirt, then scrubs the back of his hand across his mouth.]

GUH.  FOSS.  I think he’s my favorite Nicholas Lea character.

[image description: a promotional still and a screencap from an Outer Limits episode.  In both, Nicholas Lea plays a robot, a metal panel in his head visible through damaged skin and hair, another through a small tear along his cheekbone.  In the first photo, Nicholas Lea lies on the floor, an open panel in his chest revealing electronics within.  A woman in a headset and frumpy white sweater and skirt kneels beside him holding his arm.  In the second, he leans in to talk to her, looking incredulous.]

This is actually one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen.  Nicholas Lea’s performance as a robot discovering that he has emotions was one of the most creative and fresh I’ve seen (and I’m a connoisseur of sad robots), he and this woman had crazy chemistry, and there was a genuinely shocking plot twist.

[image description: 4 screencaps from Threshold of Nicholas Lea kayaking in a blue life-vest with nothing on underneath.  In the last shot he stands listening to the female lead, leaning against his paddle and frowning thoughtfully.]

The gratuitous kayaking scene in Threshold is one of my favorite things EVER.  

[image description: informal photo of Nicholas Lea and Mitch Pileggi.  Nicholas Lea stands with chin raised, one foot propped on something, and his hand in his pocket.  He wears white pants, a blue t-shirt, and a white linen blazer.  Mitch Pileggi wears a collarless blue button-down with blue jeans and gives the camera a small smile.]  

This ain’t no fashion show, motherfucker, we live it!

fuckyeahkrycek:

It’s ok Alex! I’m here to save you!

 His face is utterly perfect.

[image description: two screencaps from Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.  Nicholas Lea and a blonde woman sit in a limo.  He wears a tux with no tie.  In the first shot he pours champagne into an open-toed high-heeled shoe, tongue between his teeth in concentration.  In the second one he drinks it.]

AN OPEN-TOED SHOE.  WHAT.

Nicholas Lea discusses being in this movie in this chat.  It’s pretty cute. 

B9Force10:What made you chose to act in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye?

Nicholas_Lea:I had the opportunity to have more responsibility in a project.
Nicholas_Lea:And they gave me the opportunity to discuss things with them and do any refinement that needed to be done. And the money was really good.

Something I love about him is that he doesn’t insincerely talk up the quality of his projects, but he also never is rude or talks shit. He values things for what they are.  (The one exception that will always stick in my craw is how he said Once a Thief turned into just another shoot-em-up show or something like that.  That made me sad because I think OAT is really exceptional.  But even that was fairly mild.)

[image description: screencap from Ignition. Nicholas Lea in a suit at a formal event.  He has cropped hair and oblong, subtly octagonal glasses with tasteful wire frames.]

He was preternaturally beautiful all through his movie though.  Partly it was that his styling was so precise, but he just gleamed.  It hurt to look at him.

I loved this entire series of promos.  This is my favorite for obvious reasons, but the ones with the umbrellas were a close second.