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Robert Duncan McNeill
Robert Duncan McNeill signing a fan's autograph in Toronto in 2009.
Born (1964-11-09) November 9, 1964 (age 59)[1][2]
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Occupation(s)actor, producer, movie director, and television director
Websitehttp://www.robertduncanmcneill.net/

Robert Duncan McNeill (born November 9, 1964[1][2]) is an American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show Star Trek: Voyager.

Career

Acting

McNeill grew up in Atlanta, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at The Juilliard School in New York City.[3][4] He enjoyed early success as a professional actor, winning the role of Charlie Brent on All My Children[1][5] and starring in the feature film Masters of the Universe.[1][6] He also starred in an acclaimed[7] episode of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, A Message From Charity.[8] He then appeared with Stockard Channing in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation[9] before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television. He appeared in featured guest roles on numerous TV series, including Homefront, "Dexter (Season 1 Episode 3)", L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, and Murder, She Wrote. He was a featured cast member on the short-lived 1992 series Going to Extremes,[10][11] Another guest role that same year was in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadet Wesley Crusher into covering up their wrongdoings. He would later become a Star Trek regular in 1995 on Star Trek: Voyager, on which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's.[12]

Directing

McNeill began his directing career with several episodes of Voyager.[13] He then wrote, produced, and directed two award-winning short films, The Battery and 9 mm of Love,[1][14] and began to direct other episodic television. While he has since performed as a guest star on television shows like The Outer Limits and Crossing Jordan, McNeill is now focusing on his directing career, helming episodes of Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dead Like Me, The O.C., Las Vegas, Summerland, and Supernatural. His directing credits for 2006–2007 include episodes of Desperate Housewives, Medium, Standoff, The Nine, The Knights of Prosperity, In Case of Emergency, What About Brian and My Boys. In 2007, he directed the season 5 premiere of Las Vegas, the pilot of Samantha Who? (which features his Star Trek: Voyager co-star Tim Russ) and then signed on as a producer-director of the new NBC show Chuck, helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a TV show to be broadcast entirely in 3D. In 2010, McNeill directed an episode of V, an ABC science fiction television series produced by Scott Rosenbaum, a former writer and executive producer on Chuck.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Filmography". Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  2. ^ a b "Robert Duncan McNeill biography". TV.com. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  3. ^ Henderson, Kathy (June 14, 1988). "Soap Opera Digest". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  4. ^ "Biography, Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  5. ^ ""All My Children," Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  6. ^ ""Masters of the Universe," Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  7. ^ "A Message from Charity episode summary". TV.com. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  8. ^ ""A Message From Charity" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  9. ^ ""Six Degrees of Separation" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  10. ^ Sloan, Allison (1993). "Easy Rider". Soap Opera Digest. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  11. ^ ""Going to Extremes" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  12. ^ ""Star Trek: Voyager Cast Robert Duncan McNeill" Startrek.com". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  13. ^ Kaplan, Anna L (1997). "Paris at the Helm: Robert Duncan McNeill on His Shift From Actor to Director". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  14. ^ Perenson, Melissa (2000). "The Final Season Looms, but Robert Duncan McNeill will Always Have Paris". Star Trek Communicator. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  15. ^ "Filmography as Director, Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2007-08-23.
  16. ^ "Scott Rosenbaum, Filmography as Producer, Writer, Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2007-08-23.

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