LEXXTRAS
This isn't really about the main cast - there are plenty of websites you can go to for more information about them. This is a page for when it's really bugging you where you've seen that face before...
Guest stars in the movies:
Bog - Rutger Hauer - if you like sci-fi, then you already know who he is - Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Tenth Kingdom, The Hitcher, and many, many videos (not all of them good... but I've got a soft spot for Split Second and Blind Fury)
Poet Man - Tim Curry - Rocky Horror, of course, but also Darkness in Legend
Yottskry - Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange, Time After Time, Cat People, Star Trek: Generations - and Pearl (a sit-com Lucy Liu was in before she became famous)
Thodin - Barry Bostwick - Rocky Horror again, though most recently on tv as the Mayor in the Michael J Fox sitcom, Spin City
www.imdb.com is a great place to find out more
But what about all the other actors? Like a repertory theatre, Lexx often has people reappearing in a different role (or the same role). Lots of shows recast actors - plenty of people on Star Trek have played more than one part - but unlike Star Trek, Lexx doesn't have rubber-faced aliens, which makes it a lot easier to recognise people.
This is just a quick list of people who pop up more than once - Lexx's usual suspects... the Lexxtras...
Minna Aaltonen - Vlad in Vlad, Fluff Daddy, Magic Baby, Trip - and the White Bishop in the Game
Lauren Abrahams - Lomea in Twilight and P4X
Jeremy Akerman - Transport Major in I Worship His Shadow, Proo in Luvliner
David Albiston - a model-maker, who also pops up as a Mothbreeder in May, Boomtown, Magic Baby
Tony Anholt - TV anchorman in Season 4
Anna Kathrin Bleuler - May in May, Gametown, Boomtown
Walter Borden - His Divine Shadow, The Wozzard in Woz and Dr Longbore in season 4
Jamie Bradley - Cleric in I Worship His Shadow, Jood in Giga Shadow, TV technician in 769
Ralph Brown - Duke in Gametown, Boomtown and Gondola
Anna Cameron - Time Prophet in I Worship His Shadow and Giga Shadow. Also plays the older version of Vlad in Walpurgis Night and Vlad, and is the Black Bishop in The Game
Landy Cannon - Root in Boomtown, Eagle in ApocaLexx Now
Brian Carter - Cyborg in 791, Organ Grinder in Viva Lexx Vegas
Maury Chaykin - Pa Gollean in Love Grows and White Trash, also in Little Blue Planet as a tourist
Stephen Coats - Dad in Stan Down, Cloak in Magic Baby
Ryan Cooley - Digby in Little Blue Planet, Texx Lexx and P4X
Louis del Grande - Roda in Twilight, Louie in Viva Lexx Vegas
Tara Doyle - Tina in Texx Lexx, P4X, Xevivor, Dutch Treat
Ellen Dubin - Giggerota in I Worship His Shadow, Supernova and Patches in the Sky. Then Queen in Girltown, and Genivieve G Rota in Stan Down, who becomes Pope in ApocaLexx Now
John Dunsworth - (pops up a lot - which may have something to do with the fact that he has a casting agency in Halifax...) The Divine Shadow who kills Kai in I Worship His Shadow (and again in Giga Shadow), Berf in 791, the old Cracker in Texx Lexx, Guard in P4X, White Rook in The Game
Dan Freeburg - Gordon in Prime Ridge and Moss
Lex Gigeroff - Bound man (who becomes the new His Divine Shadow) in I Worship His Shadow, Coozunk in Eating Pattern, nearly everyone in Lafftrak (Announcer, Mr Beetle, Farty the Clown, Talk show sidekick, Game show contestant, Captain), Dr Rainbow in Tunnels, Barnabas Huffington in Fluff Daddy, and the voice of the nozzle in Trip
Andrea Green - Davinia in Walpurgis Night and Vlad
Peter Guinness - Van Helsing in Walpurgis Night and Vlad
Andre Haines - Hunted man in Lafftrak, Doily in Girltown. He also wrote music for Brigadoom - and is the brother of Lex Gigeroff
Marem Hernandez - Skankita in Prime Ridge and Moss
Geoff Herod - Brock in Gametown and Boomtown. Brock also seems to be present in the rebuilt Boomtown in The Beach and Heaven and Hell. And he's the 'Life of Joy' missionary in P4X
Angie Hill - Muffy in Walpurgis Night and Vlad
Jeff Hirschfield - 'Big Boy' Bando in Lyekka, Dick Dongler in Fluff Daddy and (I think) Barton Tesh in Giga Shadow
Rolf Kanies - Priest in Battle, then President Priest in Season 4
Dieter Laser - Mantrid in Mantrid, Norb, Brizon, The End of the Universe and Tunnels
Chaz Lawther - Video Customs Officer in I Worship His Shadow, and President Jeff Davison in Little Blue Planet
David Lewis - Fruitcake in Patches in the Sky - also it looks like him in Brizon's machine at the beginning of Brizon
Alan MacGillivray - Argon Protopi in I Worship His Shadow, the DJ in The End of the Universe
Geoff McBride - Mothbreeder in Magic Baby and 769
Brandon McCarvell - Norb in Love Grows and Norb
David McClelland - Holo-cleric in I Worship His Shadow, Guard in Little Blue Planet
Stephen McHattie - Moss in Lyekka, Prime Ridge and Moss
Rachel Mooney - Mandragora in Walpurgis Night and Vlad
Christian Murray - Cluster Guard in White Trash, 792 in Twilight
Laura Nason - Dream Girl in Patches in the Sky, a Love Slave Guard in Woz
Jennifer Overton - Wife Bank Matron in Super Nova, and Battle, Customs Officer in Giga Shadow
Mark Owen - Hunter in Lafftrak, also Balloonist in Fire and Water, and Big Angry Ed in The Rock
Jeff Pustil - Schlemmi in Luvliner, Fifi in Gametown, Boomtown, Gondola, and Farley in Xevivor
David Renton - Senior Cleric in I Worship His Shadow, Soshua in Giga Shadow and Adjudicator in Tunnels
Stephen Sisk - Flintock in Luvliner, Pilot in Boomtown
Andy Smith - Man in Luvliner, Eco-Tourist in Little Blue Planet
Glen Wadman - Prisoner in Boomtown, Tour Guide in Little Blue Planet, Archaeologist in Viva Lexx Vegas
Gordon White - Zombie in Twilight, also a thief (in the dumpster) in Fluff Daddy
Sam White - Rexal in Love Grows, Trout in The Rock
Lousie Wischermann - Lyekka in Lyekka, 791, The End of the Universe, Garden, Battle, Fluff Daddy (well, LooLoo), ApocaLexx Now, Trip and Lyekka v Japan
Janet Wright - Lorca in Love Grows, also the first First Lady in Texx Lexx and Stan Down
Patricia Zentilli - Laleen in Wake the Dead, a singer in Brigadoom, Bunny in Gametown, Boomtown and Gondola, and First Lady Bunny in Season 4
So, where else can you spot Lexxtras? Well, other Salter Street productions are a good place to start:
Def Con 4 has Jeff Pustil, Maury Chaykin, Alan MacGillivray and Lenore Zahn
George's Island has Brian Downey, Maury Chaykin, Jeff Pustil, Anna Cameron, and about 5 other Lexxtras
Norman's Awesome Experience has Brian Downey and Bill Carr (Correction centre guard in I Worship His Shadow)
Made in Canada/The Industry is a TV show that satirises TV shows, and as well as being somewhere to watch for Lexxtras (such as Jeff Hirschfield), even has the odd episode where you can see cryopods
Shattered City - as well as Brian Downey, Nigel Bennett, and Tom Gallant (voice of the Lexx), has about 12 other Lexxtras
Poko is an animated kids show, which has a lot of Lexx crew working on it
Not Salter Street, but another kids show is Zixx: Level One, written by Jeff Hirschfield, where he again plays a voice - of Flanngo, a computer game dragon (Brizon pops up in one episode)
And another kids show with Lexx connections - Lex Gigeroff wrote for The Adventures of the AfterMath Crew
Anything shot in Halifax/Nova Scotia is worth a look:
Trailer Park Boys - John Dunsworth, to name but one
Love and Death on Long Island - in which Nova Scotia pretends to be Long Island, and the eagle-eyed can spot Maury Chaykin, Jeff Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff - and Gibble
The Real Howard Spitz - Jeff and Lex again, with about 10 other Lexxtras
Finding John Christmas - several Lexxtras, plus lots of Halifax - you can even see Electropolis in one scene
Not to mention Newfoundland:
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood - a truly unique movie starring Brian Downey and Andy Jones (Smoor), and featuring Mary Walsh (Hidea from Twilight) and Maisie Rillie (Sharon, from The Rock)
In fact, Lexxtras pop up all over Canada:
Forever Knight - as well as Nigel Bennett in most episodes, there's Michael McManus, Ellen Dubin, the Dark Lady from Woz, Captain Jebbed from Love Grows and Brizon as a barman
Dog Park - Brizon as a barman again - and Michael McManus is a waiter
Paint Cans - Michael McManus, Nigel Bennett, Lex Gigeroff and more Lexxtras
I could go on forever, but I'll spare you...
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