Nicholas Campbell is a true original, and anyone who's ever met him or worked with him, from Sir Richard Attenborough to David Cronenberg and from Allan Moyle to the guy he buys his racing form from, will assure you of that.
Campbell is a critically acclaimed and multi-award winning actor who has played everything from handsome charismatic leading men to undercover cops to psychopaths. As a director, he has taken chances that many veteran filmmakers would balk at, and in his off-screen life, he is known as hard-living, disarmingly frank and bitingly funny, with a taste for gambling and enduring passion for horse racing, music and his kids. Campbell has won three Gemini Awards and been nominated for seven. For his portrayal of modern-day Renaissance man and Vancouver Coroner Dominic Da Vinci in Da Vinci's Inquest, Canada's most popular dramatic series, Campbell has been nominated for three Geminis, winning Best Performance by an Actor in a continuing leading dramatic role in 2001.
He has been heaped with accolades for his creation of the title role in Da Vinci's Inquest: "The best actor working in Canadian television right now." (Globe and Mail), "Campbell gives a marvelous lived-in performance that captures the wobbly charm and panicky conviction of his entirely fallible hero." (National Post), "Campbell is compellingly . . . (Starweek), (Campbell is) "riveting as the charismatic and compassionate Da Vinci." (Toronto Sun), ". . . superb as Da Vinci . . ." (Vancouver Sun). He was also voted Canada's hands-down favorite male dramatic star in a TV Guide reader poll, and the only Canadian star to make the Top 5 dramatic actors list in a TV Times' readers' poll.
In 2001, in addition to his Gemini for Da Vinci's Inquest, he also won Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role for an appearance on Blue Murder. Campbell also won the Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a leading role for his work in CBC's Major Crime in 1998.