John Nelles

John Nelles

Birth : , Alberta, Canada

History

John Nelles is a Canadian stage, film and television actor who also works as a fight director on stage and as a dialect and dialogue coach on screen productions, such as the television series "Orphan Black" and the feature films "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" 1 and 2. He holds a BA in Speech and Dramatic Art and an MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.

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John Nelles

Movies

Molly's Game
Ski Coach
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Don't Get Killed In Alaska
News Reporter / Evan
DON'T GET KILLED IN ALASKA follows Liney (LEE-NEE) a 20 year-old tomboy as she travels back to Ontario with her new boyfriend Dan after a summer of tree planting. Having lost all their money in a questionable incident, Liney agrees to ask her family for money to get them both to Alaska where they plan to spend the winter working on a fishing boat. Liney is forced to deal with her family dynamics as she meets with her estranged mother, her judgmental older brother and her silent father. Everyone has a plan for Liney, except for Liney.
Outlander
Donal
During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
The Prince & Me
Race Announcer
A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from two different worlds, but there is an undeniable attraction between them.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Dialogue Coach
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
X-Men
Rogue's Father
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Forever Mine
Bill Raich
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
eXistenZ
Dialect Coach
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Officer Wentworth
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Too Close To Home
Brian Moffett
A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.
The Arrow
John Pallet
The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.
Maximum Risk
Nervous Passenger
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story
Priest
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Dieppe
Lionel
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.