14 Facts About Tim Russ

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Timothy Darrell Russ was born on June 22,1956 and is an American actor, director, screenwriter, musician and amateur astronomer.

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Tim Russ appeared in The Rookie: Feds and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.

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Tim Russ attended his senior year of high school at Rome Free Academy, from which he graduated in 1974.

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Tim Russ graduated from St Edward's University with a degree in theater arts.

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Tim Russ additionally attended graduate school at Illinois State University where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame.

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Tim Russ has been involved in the Star Trek franchise as a voice and film actor, writer, director, and producer.

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Tim Russ played several minor roles before landing the role as the main character Tuvok, a character seen from the first, January 1995 episode "Caretaker" of Star Trek: Voyager.

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Tim Russ screentested, in 1987, for the role of Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation before gaining the role of Tuvok.

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Tim Russ went into Voyager as a dedicated Trekkie with an extensive knowledge of Vulcan lore and has played the following roles in the Star Trek universe:.

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Tim Russ is the director and one of the stars of the fan series Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, the first third of which was released in December 2007, with the remaining two-thirds released in 2008.

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Tim Russ's character's name DC Montana in The Highwayman was a reference to Trek writer DC Fontana.

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Tim Russ directed and co-starred in Star Trek: Renegades, and in both 2013 and 2014 reprised his role as the voice of Tuvok in the massively multiplayer online game Star Trek Online.

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Tim Russ won an Emmy Award in 2014 for public service ads he did for the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office on intellectual property theft and cyberbullying.

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Tim Russ played Captain Kells in the 2015 Bethesda Game Studios video game Fallout 4.