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
There's a great mood on the set. It's a real fun place to come to work.
Producers in this crazy town simply won't leave me alone, and I'm having to be firm.
I wanted to direct very early on, and then we started having directors who were caterers, drivers, and grips, so I thought better of it.
Almost everyone has worked at Paramount at one time or another.
Sometimes I go off and er.....(laughs with people laughing in the background)...I er.......(laughs)......I may just go off now as a matter of fact.
Radical surgery is never fun.
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!
Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
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.
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.