René Zagger (born 1 June 1973) is an English actor, known for playing PC Nick Klein in The Bill from 1999 to 2004 and as the voice of Emet-Selch in Final Fantasy XIV from the Stormblood expansion onward. He has also made several guest appearances in Casualty, Doctors and Wycliffe. Background Zagger was born in Leytonstone, London. His father is of Russian-Polish ancestry and his mother is of Spanish-Portuguese ancestry. Zagger was raised a practising Jew by his parents but now considers himself to be more traditionalist. While attending Davenant Foundation School his interest in acting began affecting his attendance, so the headmaster suggested that he move to an acting school. He left his school and enrolled at Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts. Career Zagger's first professional acting role was portraying a young Marti Pellow in the Wet Wet Wet music video I Remember. Other roles soon followed; from 1990–1991, Zagger played Mike Bentley in the children's TV drama Grange Hill, and later in 1991 he played the role of "Razors" in the Granada Television series Up the Garden Path. He also had several guest roles in Minder, Casualty, Wycliffe, Dangerous Lady and The Bill. In 1999, Zagger auditioned for the role of Dale Smith in The Bill, but the role went to his best friend Alex Walkinshaw and the character of PC Nick Klein was created for him. Zagger remained in the role for five years. Zagger left the series and took the role of Antipholus of Syracuse in the Stafford festival's production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. In 2006 Rene starred in the Dream Team mini-series Dream Team 80's as striker Johnny Fletcher, who was the father to Harchester legend Karl Fletcher. In 2006, Zagger filmed the historical drama, O Jerusalem, and vampire-horror film Night Junkies with Giles Alderson and Katia Winter. O Jerusalem was shown in France on 18 October 2006 and Night Junkies was released in December. In 2006, he appeared in the BBC series Robin Hood in the episode "A Thing or Two About Loyalty" as Lambert. In 2007 Zagger played the Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, who leaked the existence of the Israeli secret Nuclear Weapons plant at Dimona in 1986 and was subsequently kidnapped by Mossad in the BBC Nuclear Secrets episode "Vanunu and the Bomb". In June 2007, he appeared in the Doctor Who in the episode "Utopia" as Padra.