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Janette DuCharme (Forever Knight)
Janette DuCharme is a fictional character from the TV show '' Forever Knight''. She appeared as a regular in the first and second seasons, and as a guest in one episode of season three. She was played by American actress Cec Verrell in the pilot movie '' Nick Knight''. In the series, she was played by Canadian actress Deborah Duchêne. Janette is a vampire who introduces Nick Knight to Lucien LaCroix in 1228. She and LaCroix convince Nick to become a vampire. She also served as Nick's love interest during part of the series. During the 1990s, she also operates a club named "The Raven" which was patronized by other vampires and also by humans, located in Toronto. Janette left the city in 1995, and the vampire Lucien LaCroix took over the bar. Further reading * The Vampire Gallery: A Who's who of the Undead' by J. Gordon Melton, Visible Ink (1998) References Fictional vampires Forever Knight Television characters introduced in 1989 {{Tv-char-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever Knight
''Forever Knight'' is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario. 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 way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992, and concluded with the third-season finale on May 17, 1996. Plot The series followed the adventures of Nick Knight, a Toronto cop working the graveyard shift with his partner Donald Schanke. Unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, Nick is actually Nicholas, an 800-year-old vampire (his human surname was reference to his status as a literal knight in medieval France). Remorseful over centuries spent as a vampiric cold-hearted killer, Nicholas works as a cop and often ends up using his special abilities to bring criminals to justice. Whenever he works on his cases, Nicholas remembers similar situations from previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cec Verrell
Cec Verrell is an American actress who starred in many television programmes. Filmography * 2001 ''Nice Guys Finish Dead'' as Shauna * 1999 '' ER'' - (TV series) (1 episode) as Mrs. Casey * 1999 '' Air America'' (1999) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Sandra Casey * 1997 ''The Price of Kissing'' as Renee's Mother * 1997 ''Wings'' (1997) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Wanda Harrison * 1996 ''Paihnidi'' (1996) * ''NYPD Blue'' (1996) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Gail Keller * 1995 ''M.A.N.T.I.S.'' (1995) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Dr. Marissa Savoy * 1994 ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1994) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Joellen Waller * 1994 ''The X-Files'' - (TV series) (episode: '' Lazarus") as Lula Phillips * 1994 '' Space Rangers'' - (TV series) (1 episode) as Ree * 1993 ''Three of Hearts'' as Allison * 1992 ''Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride'' (TV) as 'Rocky' * 1992 ''Inside Out III'' as Susan 'Tango' * 1992 ''Mad at the Moon'' as Sally * 1991 ''Inside Out'' as Psychiatrist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Knight (film)
''Nick Knight'' is a 1989 American television film about Nick Knight, a centuries-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Los Angeles. Originally meant to be a pilot episode for a television series, it was not picked up at the time. However, in 1992, CBS picked up the series but produced the show in Canada as ''Forever Knight'', re-filming the pilot (with the same plot) and using a completely different cast, except for John Kapelos. Cast * Rick Springfield as Nick Knight * John Kapelos as Don Schanke * Robert Harper as Dr. Jack Brittington * Richard Fancy as Capt. Brunetti * Laura Johnson as Dr. Alyce Hunter * Craig Richard Nelson as Fenner * Fran Ryan as Jeannie * Cec Verrell as Janette * Jack Murdock as Topper * Michael Nader as Lacroix * Irene Miracle as The Nurse * Gregory Wagrowski as Detective Jessell * Davis Roberts as Dr. Dave * Al Fann as Dedrick See also *Vampire film *List of vampire television series List of television series about vampires, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Duchêne
Deborah Duchene (born July 3, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former film, television, and stage actress. She grew up in the U.S. and Canada, the daughter of a Baptist minister. She has appeared in film, stage and television with her most notable role being Janette in the '' Forever Knight'' series. She graduated from McGill University. One of her brothers serves in the U.S. Army. She has retired from acting, lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and currently attends the University of Toronto majoring in music to become a teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe .... Filmography Film Television Stage performances *''A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum ''(1981) *''Agnes of God'' *''Canadian Gothic ''(1985) *''Dracula ''(1989) *''Hello From Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Vampiric entities have been Vampire folklore by region, recorded in cultures around the world; the term ''vampire'' was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as ''shtriga'' in Albanian mythology, Albania, ''vrykolakas'' in G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Knight (Forever Knight)
Nick Knight (born Nicholas de Brabant) is the main character of the Canadian television series ''Forever Knight'', and its precursor 1989 television movie '' Nick Knight''. He also appears in three novels, ''A Stirring of Dust'' by Susan Sizemore, ''Intimations of Mortality'' by Susan M. Garrett, and ''These Our Revels'' by Anne Hathaway Nayne. The character's backstory is revealed piecemeal, primarily through the flashback scenes that appear in most episodes of the television series. He was born circa A.D. 1200; and, in many episodes, employs the name "Nicolas de Brabant", suggesting that he comes from the Duchy of Brabant in the Low Countries. He was born of a noble family, and trained as a knight. After being falsely accused of murder, he chose to fight in the Crusades to escape nearly certain conviction. On his return to Europe in A.D. 1228, he was seduced by a vampire in disguise, Janette DuCharme, who introduced him to her master, Lucien LaCroix. LaCroix offered Knight immo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien LaCroix
''Forever Knight'' is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario. 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 way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992, and concluded with the third-season finale on May 17, 1996. Plot The series followed the adventures of Nick Knight, a Toronto cop working the graveyard shift with his partner Donald Schanke. Unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, Nick is actually Nicholas, an 800-year-old vampire (his human surname was reference to his status as a literal knight in medieval France). Remorseful over centuries spent as a vampiric cold-hearted killer, Nicholas works as a cop and often ends up using his special abilities to bring criminals to justice. Whenever he works on his cases, Nicholas remembers similar situations from previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Vampires
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and context of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
