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
No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.
In my heart, I've never left Brazil.
I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
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.
I think the idea, from the beginning, was that Data was a machine that basically teaches himself everything he experiences and sees becomes a part of his programming.
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.
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.
Well, I was always a huge fan of the movies. I spent a great deal of time , as a a kid, watching movies.
Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.
My character has a distrust of government as Big Brother, ... He doesn't see why this should be kept secret from the public.