Brent Spiner

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Actor Brent Jay Spiner portrays Lt. Commander Data, Lore and Noonien Soong in Star Trek: The Next Generation and B-4 in Star Trek: Nemesis. He also portrays Arik Soong in a three-episode arc on Star Trek: Enterprise. His excellent portrayal of Data, the android in search of humanity, has made him an invaluable member of the TNG cast. These skills were highlighted in the episode "Brothers", where Mr. Spiner played all three main characters of the story, turning this episode into a 'one-man show'.

He was born on Template:D in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Bellaire High School. After his education, he played a number of roles in off-Broadway productions including The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. He soon got roles in several Broadway productions, such as Sunday in the Park with George. Since, he has appeared as a guest star in television series like Cheers, Night Court and Frasier.

Spiner has acted in several non-Trek movies such as Independence Day and Phenomenon.

In a rather unexpected turn of events, in 1991, he released an album of 1930's and 1940's pop standards called Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back. Notably, the back-up vocals in the song "It's a Sin (to Tell a Lie)" were performed by "The Sunspots," aka his fellow TNG cast-members LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, and Patrick Stewart. Undoubtedly, this album influenced Paramount enough to let him sing the Irving Berlin song "Blue Skies" in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis.