Brent Spiner is best known for his role as the android Data on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, four subsequent films, and Star Trek: Picard.
28 Facts About Brent Spiner
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Brent Jay Spiner was born on February 2,1949, in Houston, to Sylvia and Jack Spiner, who owned a furniture store.
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At age 29, Jack Brent Spiner died of kidney failure when his son was ten months old.
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Brent Spiner became active on the Bellaire speech team, winning the national championship in dramatic interpretation.
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Brent Spiner attended the University of Houston, where he performed in local theater.
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In 1968, Brent Spiner worked as a performer at Six Flags Astroworld, first as a gunfighter and later in Dr Featherflowers Medicine Show with his friend Trey Wilson.
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Brent Spiner performed the role in the 1968 TV special The Pied Piper of Astroworld.
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Brent Spiner moved to New York City in the early 1970s, where he became a stage actor, performing in several Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including The Three Musketeers and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.
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Brent Spiner had a brief non-speaking role in the film Stardust Memories, credited as "Fan in Lobby", the one with a Polaroid.
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Brent Spiner can be seen as a passenger on the train full of misfits that the Allen character is trapped on in one of the films-within-the-film.
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Brent Spiner appeared as a media technician in "The Advocates", a second-season episode of the Showtime cable series The Paper Chase.
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Brent Spiner played a recurring character on Night Court, Bob Wheeler, patriarch of a rural family.
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Brent Spiner made two appearances in season three of the situation comedy Mama's Family, playing two different characters.
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Brent Spiner appeared in the Tales from the Darkside episode, "A Case of the Stubborns", as a preacher.
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Brent Spiner portrayed Jim Stevens in the made-for-TV movie Manhunt for Claude Dallas.
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Brent Spiner guest-starred in Friends as James Campbell, a man who interviews Rachel for Gucci.
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In 1987, Brent Spiner started portraying the android Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which spanned seven seasons and four feature films.
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Brent Spiner reprised his role in the spin-off films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis.
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However, Brent Spiner opined that he was too old to continue playing the part, as Data does not age.
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Brent Spiner played Lore, the android brother of Data, in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and another brother of his, an android with a less developed mind named B-4, in Star Trek: Nemesis.
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Brent Spiner has stated that he does not intend to play that role again, though he might be open to playing the role of Altan Soong.
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In 1991, Brent Spiner recorded an album of 1940s pop standards, Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back, the title of which was a play on the yellow contact lenses Brent Spiner wore as Data, and the title of a Frank Sinatra record, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.
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In 2005, Brent Spiner appeared in a short-lived science-fiction television series Threshold, which was canceled in November of that year after 13 episodes.
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In 2008, Brent Spiner played Dr Strom in the feature film parody Superhero Movie.
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Brent Spiner appeared as Dr Kern in the September 12,2011, episode of the Syfy channel program Alphas entitled "Blind Spot".
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Brent Spiner has guest-starred on the Syfy program Warehouse 13 as Brother Adrian in the third and fourth seasons.
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In October 2021, Brent Spiner released Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events, a mixture of memoir and a fictitious noir detective story about Brent Spiner dealing with a crazed, murderous fan who claims to be the fictitious Lal, the android daughter of Data in the third-season TNG episode "The Offspring".
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The audiobook version, primarily narrated by Brent Spiner, featured vocal cameos from Brent Spiner's TNG co-stars, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, and Gates McFadden.