Michael Kopsa, a Canadian actor whose roles on hits and cult-favorites like The X-Recordsdata, Highlander, Smallville and Stargate SG-1 made him an instantly recognizable TV presence, died Sunday, Oct. 23, of problems from a mind tumor. He was 66.

His demise was introduced on Twitter by his ex-wife, actor Lucia Frangione.

“The good Michael Kopsa, my pricey good friend and the daddy of my little one, Nora, handed away Oct. 23, 2022, of a mind tumor,” she wrote yesterday. “He was an unimaginable stage and display screen actor, voice actor, carpenter, musician and painter. Most significantly, he was a loving and richly current father.”

A Toronto native, Kopsa studied appearing at New York’s Circle within the Sq. Theater Faculty for 4 years within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. He subsequently returned to Canada to attend the College of Toronto. All through his profession he would carry out in collection filmed or made in Toronto or Vancouver.

Amongst his earliest credit had been voiceover work for such animated collection as Cell Swimsuit Gundam and small in-person roles on the 1988 Mr. T collection T and T.

By the mid-’90s he had booked roles on The Commish, Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, Highlander, and The X-Recordsdata. Subsequent credit embrace roles on Poltergeist: The Legacy, The Outer Limits, Beggars and Choosers, and, within the 2000s, Motion Man and Galaxy Angel.

He recurred in two separate roles on Stargate SG-1, portraying a TV information anchor and Basic Kerrigan.

He voiced a pair roles on Dragon Ball Z, and, in 2001’s X-Males: Evolution, he voiced the character of Dr. Hank McCoy. In 2006 and 2007, he performed Ray Ellis on Falcon Seashore, and he performed Captain Windmark in 2012’s Fringe, amongst many, many different roles.