Jeremy Ratchford

Jeremy Ratchford (born August 6, 1965) is a Canadian actor. He starred as Nick Vera on the TV series Cold Case.

While in Canada, Ratchford played Marvel Comic book character Banshee in a live action version of Generation X TV movie. He also may have voiced the same character for a few episodes of the "X-Men" animated series, but it is not shown on his website and there is some confusion. He also starred in a series of Canadian Crispy Crunch candy bar commercials.

When Ratchford relocated to Hollywood, California, he played a sexual predator on an episode of NYPD Blue and two episodes of The Practice, as well as the vampire Lyle Gorch in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes "Bad Eggs" and "Homecoming" before being cast on Cold Case. On Cold Case he played the character named Nick Vera.

He voiced Smoke in the animated series, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm.