10 Actors Who Played More Than One Character In Star Trek
2. Tony Todd
There are actors out there who are incredibly famous, yet whose names you may not immediately remember. Tony Todd is one such actor. Ask most people do you know Tony Todd and they may furrow their brow and shake their head slowly, pondering. Show them a picture though and they say oh, THAT guy, yeah, hes awesome. To a certain generation he will always be Candyman but in Star Trek Next Generation he had a recurring role as Kurn, Worfs brother. He first appeared in Sins of the Father/Redemption/Redemption II and retuned in Sons of Mogh in DS9. His most memorable performance in Star Trek terms though was in DS9 as Old Jake Sisko in The Visitor. In what was an emotional and extremely well written episode, he played an elderly Jake who lost his father in an accident at 18 which led his life down a path that was both full of success, but also of loss and longing. He lost his wife to his obsession with bringing his father back with Ben, appearing on occasion untempered by time, begging him to let go and enjoy his life. By committing suicide he was able to break the temporal link and send his father back to the moment of the accident, allowing him to change the outcome. He impressed so much, or maybe he was on retainer, he also played Alpha Hirogen in Prey, the slightly disturbing Voyager episode about a race of hunters who liked to play with their food. It should also be noted that he is due to play Admiral Ramirez in the upcoming Axanar.
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