Director of Operations

A stern taskmaster, Frank Elsinger is a classic company man who controls his team with icy resolve. Elsinger keeps his private life off limits, and never lets his operatives know more than necessary. That includes his ultimate agenda, which is unexplained and unpredictable. When Elsinger intervenes in a case, he always uses objective detachment to reach a solution. But there might be more to Elsinger than what meets the eye: Does this organizational enigma have another story... one that involves him more than any case the O.S.I.R. might face?

Born: 19 November 1949, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Nigel Bennett came to Canada in 1986. While he continues to straddle the ocean to keep up his 20-year theatre career, appearing last year in productions of Private Lives and Ghosts in Leicester, and in an Italian tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. His projects include Different, Hairy Bird, One Tough Cop, The Top of the Food Chain, Star Command, Any Mother's Son, Lies He Told, A Child's Christmas in Wales and Gotti, Mia: Innocence Lost, Degree of Guilt and the miniseries Dieppe and The Arrow. His feature film work includes Legends of the Fall, Narrow Margin, Murder at 1600 and TV series: Earth: Final Conflict, The Twilight Zone, La Femme Nikita, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Beyond Reality, The Hidden Room, Street Legal, Diamonds, Kung Fu, RoboCop, Friday the 13th, Counterstrike and etc. In 1995, Bennett won a Gemini Award for his recurring role in the series Forever Knight.
When not on location, Bennett lives with his family near the town of Lindsay, northeast of Toronto.