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Nazneen Contractor (born August 26, 1982) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Layla Hourani on CBC's The Border, and, more recently, as Kayla Hassan on 24 (season 8). She is of Gujarati Parsi descent.
She married fellow Canadian actor Carlo Rota on April 1, 2010. They have one son, born in 2011 or 2012.
Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an English-Canadian actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.
Bennett has also been in a number of major films such as Murder at 1600 and The Skulls, and many, many other TV series. He had recurring roles in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Lexx. He also starred in a series of Oatmeal Crisp cereal commercials in the 1990s.
Teaming up with writer P.N. Elrod, Bennett co-authored a series of acclaimed "James Bond with fangs" vampire adventure novels for Baen Books. The "Lord Richard, Vampire" trilogy includes Keeper of the King, His Father's Son, and Siege Perilous. He also contributed the short story "Wolf and Hound" to "Dracula's London," a collection edited by Elrod for Ace Science Fiction.
In 2006, he appeared in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At The Hotel, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award.
The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The executive in charge of production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode.
The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of Immigration and Customs Security (ICS), a fictitious agency described as being created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters including terrorism and smuggling.
The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.
The show stars many Canadian television actors such as James McGowan, Graham Abbey and Catherine Disher. Sofia Milos and Daisy Beaumont are the only non-Canadian actresses to star, as United States Department of Homeland Security special agent Bianca LaGarda and British intelligence agent Charlotte Bates respectively.
James Robert McGowan (born May 30, 1960) is a Canadian actor.
McGowan was born in Montreal, Quebec, the youngest of John and June McGowan’s three sons. He grew up in Dollard-des-Ormeaux and attended John Abbott College where he studied theater. James graduated from Concordia University with a B.A. in Communications. After graduating, he took a job as a copy writer at an advertising agency rather than pursuing an acting career as he did not believe he could make a living acting. He took "a mind-numbing 9-to-5 job” in the audio-visual department at McGill University. While there he got in touch with a friend who was directing plays at the Montreal university expecting to pursue acting simply as a hobby.
"I needed some kind of artistic outlet and I've always loved the process," McGowan said. "I started out slowly doing student plays and plays at the William Shatner building.” "It was immediate," he said. "As soon as I got on and got the first words out, then it was just, 'Wow, I love this. I've always loved this.” It wasn’t easy breaking into television in Toronto given his age."The truth of the matter is that, at 36, you're trying to audition for parts and you're up against guys who've been doing it for 15 years and have résumés that reflect that. It was hard at first to just get to see people."
sevag sagherian, actor, producer, director
In 2008, Alberta Watson joined the cast of CBC's popular show THE BORDER as a recurring guest star. She played Susanne Fleischer, a government MP (the Minister of Public Safety) and recovering alcoholic. Fleischer is an ex-Canadian soldier who had served with ex-lover Mike Kessler (the Head of the Toronto-based Immigrations and Customs Security, played by James McGowan) in various Bosnian peacekeeping operations. For more information: "The Border" (2008) TV series http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896527/
Sevag Sagherian actor
In 2008, Alberta Watson joined the cast of CBC's popular show THE BORDER as a recurring guest star. She played Susanne Fleischer, a government MP (the Minister of Public Safety) and recovering alcoholic. Fleischer is an ex-Canadian soldier who had served with ex-lover Mike Kessler (the Head of the Toronto-based Immigrations and Customs Security, played by James McGowan) in various Bosnian peacekeeping operations. For more information: "The Border" (2008) TV series http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896527/
In 2008, Alberta Watson joined the cast of CBC's popular show THE BORDER as a recurring guest star. She played Susanne Fleischer, a government MP (the Minister of Public Safety) and recovering alcoholic. Fleischer is an ex-Canadian soldier who had served with ex-lover Mike Kessler (the Head of the Toronto-based Immigrations and Customs Security, played by James McGowan) in various Bosnian peacekeeping operations. For more information: "The Border" (2008) TV series http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896527/
Patti Page lip-syncs songs (mostly standards) in this episode of her TV series for Screen Gems.
They meet down in Brownsville, in a little border dive
She was just looking for someone to dance with, he was
just looking for a fight
They knew what they what they wanted, but that's about
all they knew
They liked to be with each other, just to see what the
other would do
They're walking on the border, love that wild side
They're walking on the border, ain't they feeling fine
The sun fell on Loretta, asleep in the back of the van
Jim smoked his Camel, stared across the Rio Grande
He said "Hey wake up Loretta, we got some work to do
Got to see a friend of a friend, help a friend down in
Para crud"
They're walking on the border, love that wild side
They're walking on the border, ain't they feeling fine
Back in Brownsville Texas, a week on down the road
They ran out of American money, ran out of Mexico
There was kissing on the corner, ain't it good to be
alive
Then they crashed the door of the liquor store, she
handed him his .45
They're walking on the border, love that wild side
They're walking on the border, ain't they feeling fine
Walking on the border, love that wild side