Jeremy Ratchford

Ratchford was born in Kitchener, Ontario, on August 6, 1965. He studied acting at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School, from which he graduated.^[1]

While in Canada, Ratchford played Marvel Comic book character Banshee in the live action TV super hero film Generation X. Ratchford also starred in a series of Canadian Crispy Crunch candy bar commercials.^{[citation needed]}

When he 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 detective Nick Vera.^[2][3][4]

Ratchford has three sons from his marriage to Tori: Dexton, Revel and Wylder.

In 2017, he sold his then estate, a house that was built in the 1940s with 2,900 square feet of living space in Valley Village, Los Angeles, for $1.38 million.^[4]