1. Robert Alphonse Picardo was born on October 27,1953 and is an American actor.
32 Facts About Robert Picardo
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Robert Picardo is best known for playing the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager.
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Robert Picardo is a frequent collaborator with Joe Dante and is a member of The Planetary Society's board of directors.
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Robert Picardo is of Italian heritage, with his father's family originating from Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno, and his mother's parents originally from Bomba in Abruzzo.
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Robert Picardo graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1971 and originally entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but opted to act, instead.
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Robert Picardo graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Yale.
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Robert Picardo's singing was incorporated into his role in Star Trek: Voyager.
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Robert Picardo waited tables for a few years until his theatrical work started to take off around 1976.
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In 1977, Robert Picardo made his Broadway debut, appearing in Gemini and Tribute.
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On television, Robert Picardo appeared on Kojak in a 1977 episode and Taxi in a 1979 episode.
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Robert Picardo made his feature-film debut as Eddie Quist, the serial killer werewolf in the Joe Dante film The Howling.
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Robert Picardo had a recurring role in the sitcom Alice and played a doctor on an episode of The Golden Girls.
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Robert Picardo played a number of roles in Dante's family science fiction film Explorers, and later appeared in Dante's Innerspace, The 'Burbs, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Matinee, Small Soldiers, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
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Robert Picardo often plays roles under layers of prosthetic latex, having played the swamp-dwelling Meg Mucklebones in Ridley Scott's film Legend.
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Robert Picardo had a small role as a funeral director in John Landis's Amazon Women on the Moon.
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Robert Picardo portrayed the voice and face of the robotic Johnny Cab in Total Recall.
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Robert Picardo is among a small group of television actors to achieve notice on two television series at the same time.
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In 1993, Robert Picardo had a brief role as Joe "the Meat Man" Morton, a butcher and neighbor to Tim Allen's character on the sitcom Home Improvement.
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Robert Picardo appeared in one episode of ER in 1995 as Abraham Zimble.
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Robert Picardo played Dr Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, in episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
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In 2002, Robert Picardo authored The Hologram's Handbook, published by Pocket Books.
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In 2015, Robert Picardo reprised the role of Dr Lewis Zimmerman in the pilot episode of the fan series Star Trek: Renegades.
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On February 5,2008, Robert Picardo was announced to be joining the regular cast of Stargate Atlantis full-time for the series' fifth and final season.
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Robert Picardo took over the role of mission commander of the Atlantis Expedition.
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In 2001, Robert Picardo guest-starred in the 7 Days episode "Revelation", purporting to be a time traveler from seven years in the future.
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Robert Picardo starred in Russ Emanuel's Chasing the Green in 2008, with William Devane, Jeremy London and Ryan Hurst.
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Robert Picardo appeared on four episodes of E-Ring, as an enraged father in Cold Case, and as a police officer in CSI: NY.
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Robert Picardo was a recurring guest star in two episodes of season seven of Smallville, and appeared on a season-six episode of Supernatural titled "Clap Your Hands if You Believe", as a leprechaun.
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Outside of acting, Robert Picardo was a member of the Board of Directors' Advisory Council of The Planetary Society from 1999 through 2015.
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Robert Picardo provided the voice of Loki in the Xbox 360 video game Too Human.
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Robert Picardo voiced Robert McNamara in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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Robert Picardo appeared in four episodes of The Mentalist from 2012 through 2013 as Jason Cooper, a lieutenant of cult leader Bret Styles.