Nicole de Boer
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Nicole de Boer is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Ezri Dax
on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
from 1998 to 1999 and as Sarah Bannerman on The Dead Zone
from 2002 to 2007.
, Vincent Price
, and Imogene Coca
. De Boer's first major television work was a re-occurring role on the Canadian sketch comedy show The Kids in the Hall
as Laura, the on again/off again girlfriend of Bobby Terrance (Bruce McCulloch
). She subsequently appeared (as a different character) in their 1996 film Brain Candy
.
Her first major TV role came in 1997, in the short-lived Sci-Fi Channel series Deepwater Black
(also known as Mission Genesis) as Yuna. She followed that up with a role in the low-budget science fiction
film, Cube (1997). She has also been featured in episodes of the Canadian produced SF series The Outer Limits
.
De Boer's most noted roles have been Ezri Dax
on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(seventh season, 1998–1999), and Sarah Bannerman on The Dead Zone
, which was cancelled in December 2007 after season six.
She was also cast as Dr. Alison Porter in the SciFi channel series Stargate Atlantis
, appearing in the fifth season episode
"Whispers"
, now part of Toronto
, Ontario
, Canada
, the daughter of Dorothy and Ted de Boer. She is married to musician John Kastner
and they have a daughter named Summer.
Ezri Dax
Ezri Dax , played by Nicole de Boer, is a counselor aboard Deep Space Nine in the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Casting:The role of Ezri Dax was created when Terry Farrell decided to leave the show and her character was subsequently killed by Dukat.When Nicole de Boer read for the...
on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
from 1998 to 1999 and as Sarah Bannerman on The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone (TV series)
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
from 2002 to 2007.
Career
Despite being shy as a child, de Boer started acting at a young age, auditioning for and landing the lead in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. Her television debut was an uncredited role in Freddy the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner, which starred Red SkeltonRed Skelton
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...
, Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...
, and Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca
Imogene Fernandez de Coca was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows....
. De Boer's first major television work was a re-occurring role on the Canadian sketch comedy show The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States...
as Laura, the on again/off again girlfriend of Bobby Terrance (Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...
). She subsequently appeared (as a different character) in their 1996 film Brain Candy
Brain Candy
Brain Candy is a feature film by The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe. Directed by Kelly Makin, filmed in Toronto, and released in 1996, it followed the five season run of their television series, which had been successful in both Canada and the United States.The five man team plays all...
.
Her first major TV role came in 1997, in the short-lived Sci-Fi Channel series Deepwater Black
Deepwater Black
Deepwater Black is a 1995 novel, first in the Deepwater trilogy, by the New Zealand science fiction writer Ken Catran, where a cast of young characters are supposedly stranded in space while a virus ravages Earth. The book series itself is quite different from the television series later developed...
(also known as Mission Genesis) as Yuna. She followed that up with a role in the low-budget science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
film, Cube (1997). She has also been featured in episodes of the Canadian produced SF series The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...
.
De Boer's most noted roles have been Ezri Dax
Ezri Dax
Ezri Dax , played by Nicole de Boer, is a counselor aboard Deep Space Nine in the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Casting:The role of Ezri Dax was created when Terry Farrell decided to leave the show and her character was subsequently killed by Dukat.When Nicole de Boer read for the...
on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
(seventh season, 1998–1999), and Sarah Bannerman on The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone (TV series)
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
, which was cancelled in December 2007 after season six.
She was also cast as Dr. Alison Porter in the SciFi channel series Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself...
, appearing in the fifth season episode
"Whispers"
Personal life
De Boer was born in ScarboroughScarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
, now part of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the daughter of Dorothy and Ted de Boer. She is married to musician John Kastner
John Kastner
John Kastner is a Canadian musician and composer born in Beaconsfield, Quebec. He is well known as the singer for Montreal hardcore punk band the Asexuals as well as singer-guitarist for Montreal alternative band Doughboys and alternative band All Systems Go!....
and they have a daughter named Summer.
Movies
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner | Little girl at hospital | |
| 1990 | The Kissing Place | Cathy | |
| 1992 | Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil | Meagan | |
| 1993 | Family Pictures | Penny | |
| 1993 | J.F.K.: Reckless Youth | Olive Cawley | |
| 1994 | The Counterfeit Contessa | Helena Everett | |
| 1995 | Jungleground | Caitlyn Dean | |
| 1995 | National Lampoon's Senior Trip National Lampoon's Senior Trip National Lampoon's Senior Trip is a 1995 teen movie directed by Kelly Makin.- Plot :The film follows the story of a group of rude and obnoxious seniors from Fairmont High, an Ohio high school. After a typing class, the seniors cut school and throw a party at the home of Principal Moss... |
Meg Smith | |
| 1996 | Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy | Cooper's groupie | |
| 1997 | When Innocence Is Lost When Innocence Is Lost When Innocence Is Lost is an 1997 American drama TV film directed by Bethany Rooney and written by Deborah Jones. It stars Keri Russell, Jill Clayburgh, Vince Corazza, Julie Khaner, and Charlotte SullivanPlot:... |
Nancy | |
| 1997 | Cube Cube (film) Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction psychological thriller/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a successful product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project.... |
Joan Leaven | |
| 1998 | My Date with the President's Daughter My Date with the President's Daughter My Date with the President's Daughter is a 1998 made-for-TV comedy film produced by Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Walt Disney. It is about a free-spirited 16-year-old daughter of the American president who makes a date with a high school teenager named Duncan, then sneaks away from her Secret... |
Bonnie | |
| 1999 | Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion | Jackie Fein | |
| 2000 | Rated X Rated X (film) Rated X is a 2000 film starring brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, with the latter also directing. It is based on the nonfiction book X-Rated by David McCumber which chronicles the story of the Mitchell brothers, Jim and Artie Mitchell, who were pioneers in the pornography and strip club... |
Karen Mitchell | |
| 2000 | The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma... |
Sarah Bracknell Bannerman | |
| 2003 | Public Domain Public Domain (film) Public Domain is a 2003 Canadian film about reality TV. It was directed by Kris Lefcoe and stars Nicole de Boer, Mike Beaver, Lindy Booth and Dov Tiefenbach. The film is openly critical of reality TV and portrays the hosts and producers as cruel and heartless people... |
Bonnie | |
| 2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight 5ive Days to Midnight 5ive Days to Midnight is a five-part miniseries which ran on the Sci Fi Channel in June of 2004. It stars Timothy Hutton as J.T... |
Chantal Hume | |
| 2004 | Phil the Alien Phil the Alien Phil the Alien is a Canadian comedy film, released in 2004. It was written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk, who also starred as the titular Phil.Phil is an extraterrestrial who crash-lands in a small town in Northern Ontario... |
Madame Madame | |
| 2006 | Ties That Bind | Megan Mahoney | |
| 2008 | NYC: Tornado Terror NYC: Tornado Terror NYC: Tornado Terror is a 2008 disaster film, directed by Tibor Takács and written by T.S. Cook. It stars Nicole de Boer, Sebastian Spence, and Jerry Wasserman. The film is about global warming which causes tornadoes to drop on New York City. As Dr. Cassie Lawrence tries to stop the twisters, chaos... |
Cassie Lawrence | |
| 2008 | Christmas Town Christmas Town Christmas Town is a 2008 direct-to-video film starring Nicole de Boer and Patrick Muldoon.As of 2009, it was shown on television in the 25 Days of Christmas programming block on ABC Family, but it was not in the block in 2010.-Plot:... |
Liz | |
| 2009 | Suck Suck (film) Suck is a 2009 rock-and-roll vampire comedy film starring, written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk. Stefaniuk stars alongside Canadian actress Jessica Paré, Malcolm McDowell and rock legends Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Moby and Alex Lifeson of Rush. Production took place in and around... |
Susan | |
| 2011 | Iron Invader Iron Invader Iron Invader is a 2011 science fiction television film directed by Paul Ziller. The drama features Kavan Smith and Nicole de Boer. The film premiered on the Syfy channel on February 12, 2011.-Plot:... |
Amanda | |
| 2011 | Metal Tornado | Rebecca |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 9B 9B (TV series) 9B was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television as a television movie in 1986 before being adapted into a short-run dramatic series in 1989.... |
Erin Jones | 5 episodes |
| 1989-1991 | The Kids in the Hall The Kids in the Hall The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States... |
Laura | 3 episodes |
| 1991-1993 | Beyond Reality Beyond Reality (TV series) Beyond Reality is a Canadian/American science fiction television series which originally aired between October 4, 1991 and March 20, 1993. The series is about two university parapsychologists investigate reports of paranormal phenomena that occur in ordinary people's lives.... |
Celia Powell / Anna / Mrs. Winter | 7 episodes |
| 1992 | Forever Knight Forever Knight Forever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a... |
Jeannie | 2 episodes |
| 1992-1994 | E.N.G. E.N.G. E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994... |
Brenda / Nancy | 2 episodes |
| 1995-1998 | The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002... |
Cadet 2nd Class Bree Tristan / Rachel Sanders | 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Deepwater Black Deepwater Black Deepwater Black is a 1995 novel, first in the Deepwater trilogy, by the New Zealand science fiction writer Ken Catran, where a cast of young characters are supposedly stranded in space while a virus ravages Earth. The book series itself is quite different from the television series later developed... |
Yuna | 14 episodes |
| 1998-1999 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe... |
Lieutenant Ezri Dax Ezri Dax Ezri Dax , played by Nicole de Boer, is a counselor aboard Deep Space Nine in the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Casting:The role of Ezri Dax was created when Terry Farrell decided to leave the show and her character was subsequently killed by Dukat.When Nicole de Boer read for the... |
25 episodes |
| 1999 | Dooley Gardens Dooley Gardens Dooley Gardens is a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in 1999. The series was set in a hockey rink in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, inherited by Skye Dooley after the death of her father.... |
Skye | 7 episodes |
| 2002-2007 | The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma... |
Sarah Bracknell Bannerman | 66 episodes |
| 2008 | Stargate Atlantis Stargate Atlantis Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself... |
Dr. Alison Porter | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Haven Haven (TV series) Haven is a supernatural drama television series loosely based on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid. The show, filmed on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, is an American/Canadian co-production. The one-hour drama premiered on July 9, 2010, on Syfy... |
Marion Caldwell | 25 episode |