Brent Spiner
Brent Spiner
Brent Jay Spineris an American actor, comedian, and singer best known for his portrayal of the android, Lieutenant Commander Data, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. In 1997, he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact, and was nominated in the same category for portraying Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day, a role he reprised in Independence Day: Resurgence. He has also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth2 February 1949
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
And I think that was the idea: by the end of the series, Data would ba about as close to human but still not be there.
I think he is a bit of an outsider: he doesn't quite fit in, he doesn't quite belong, and people relate to that idea of being an outsider and being alienated.
Almost everyone has worked at Paramount at one time or another.
I think as time has gone on, they've been pleased to find it not at all limiting role and probably the most wide open role in terms of what I am allowed to do.
But he's absorbed so much information and so much behavior from serving with humans that he is allot less machinelike now than he was in the beginning, and that was intentional.
There's a great mood on the set. It's a real fun place to come to work.
Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.
Well, I was always a huge fan of the movies. I spent a great deal of time , as a a kid, watching movies.
If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
I'm an avid biography reader.
Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
In my heart, I've never left Brazil.