Martin Clunes

A keen camper van driver, Clunes is married to producer Philippa Braithwaite and has a daughter, Emily. For five years, he was the lead singer in an alternative band entitled Beau Monde. Clunes was also frequently recruited by his friend and former Men Behaving Badly co-star Harry Enfield to play charcaters in his sketch shows. Among his former dates include Lucy Liu and Melinda McGraw, whose character on The X-Files was shot dead at the behest of his character. Clunes won much acclaim for his role and seems a popular choice for a permanent role.
. When Angus Deayton was sacked as host of Have I Got News For You, Clunes was one of several people recruited to guest host the topical news quiz, having been an extremely successful panellist and stand-in captain in the past (he joked that, as he had been a contestant on the show so many times that there was now only one chair on the set that he had not sat in, before dropping a spotlight and dramatic music on Ian Hislop). He has also taught acting at the Lyric School of Actors in Vancouver.

In 2002 he played serial killer John George Haigh in A Is for Acid, and four years earlier he starred as Richard Burbage in Shakespeare in Love. Since then he has guest starred in shows such as NYPD Blue, Andromeda and CSI. Clunes is an established dramatic actor too, starring in the films An Evening With Gary Lineker, Staggered and Saving Grace. In various capacities, Lea continued appearing on the show until its end in 2002. His first television appearance came a decade earlier in Doctor Who, and he also got a role as one of the sons in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). The son of actor Alec Clunes, he is best known as Gary in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly which was broadcast from 1992 to 1998. Lea continued to play Krycek, who quickly became a nemesis not just of Mulder and Scully but particularly of A.D.

Martin Clunes (born 28 November 1961) is a British actor. Sadly, the series was cancelled after one season, but Lea only had to come knocking and the producers welcomed him back to The X-Files, as did the fans. This allowed Lea to take a starring role in the series Once a Thief - which followed on from the 1996 John Woo film - alongside Ivan Sergei. In the season four episode Terma, Krycek was left to die in an abandoned silo with an alien ship. Lea guest starred in eleven episodes from 1994 to 1996 and became a popular character amongst the fans. Because of his character's willingness to switch sides, he was known as the 'ratboy'.

The producers were impressed by his performance and when, in the second season, he auditioned for the role of turncoat FBI agent Alex Krycek, he was successful. It was during this time that he had a minor guest role in a first-season episode of The X-Files called GenderBender. Lea was born in British Columbia on June 22, 1962 and his first major role was on the TV series The Commish where he played Officer Enrico Caruso from 1991 to 1994. Nicholas Lea is a well-known Canadian - American actor best known for his work on The X-Files playing Alex Krycek.