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
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
I'm an avid biography reader.
If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
Everyone I've ever known in my life, or seen, or met, or loved, or hated, is at risk of being destroyed. That's a pretty big chunk of fear, and I think that's what we are all dealing with, if we don't save the day.
It;s always challenging to try to make a scene work- to make something you think would be interesting to watch.
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite
As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!
Radical surgery is never fun.
We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with each other. These three guys were essentially shanghaied and made to do this job, whether they want to or not. And they're geniuses, so they have egos. I play a doctor, and I never met a doctor without an ego.