Robert Duncan McNeill
Robert Duncan McNeill ( born November 9, 1964 in Raleigh, North Carolina ) is an American actor, film producer and television director, who primarily for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris in Star Trek in Germany: known Voyager.
Career
As an actor
McNeill grew up in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, and began his acting career in local and regional productions. After attending high school, he moved to New York to become a professional actor; However, he initially got only small roles, so he began to study at the prestigious Juilliard School drama and dance. A short time later, McNeill was given the role of Charlie Brent in the duration of television series All My Children, and received even an Emmy nomination. By the way he looked in the movie Masters of the Universe ( 1987) and in a successful off- Broadway production of Sam Shepard, The Four -H Club, with. 1986 McNeill got out at All My Children and went with Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods on tour. At this time he moved with his wife to Los Angeles and continued to commute between LA and New York permanently.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of his career befell McNeill when he left the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation, because he had a starring role in the feature film get offered The Outsider (1992); however, was the film's producer, Stanley Jaffe, appointed shortly after the president of Paramount Pictures, and in the course of this Personnel McNeill lost already promised role to Brendan Fraser. Soon afterwards, however, he had great success with the television series Going to Extremes.
Before he from 1995-2001 with the role of Lt. Tom Paris as one of the main casts of the latest Star Trek offshoot Star Trek: Voyager was, he had in many television series such as Early Edition, LA Law - Star lawyers, tricks, processes, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, guest roles.
As a director,
His career as a film director began McNeill with the government takeover of several Voyager episodes. Then he wrote, produced and he directed first at two award- winning short films called The Battery and 9mm of Love; then he directed another television series.
While he still took guest roles, but he focused more and more on his work as a director and led, among other things, also directed episodes known television series.
From 2007 he acted for the TV series Chuck both as producer and as a director.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: Star Trek: Voyager (Star Trek: Voyager television series, four episodes)
- 2003: Dawson 's Creek (TV series seven episodes)
- 2003: Dead Like Me - As good as dead ( Dead Like Me, TV series, two episodes)
- 2003: One Tree Hill (TV series, two episodes)
- 2004-2007: Las Vegas (TV series, four episodes)
- 2004: Star Trek: Enterprise (TV series, four episodes)
- 2004: Summerland ( Summerland, television series, four episodes)
- 2005: Desperate Housewives (TV series, two episodes)
- 2005: Medium - Nothing is hidden (medium, television series, one episode)
- 2005: The OC ( The OC, TV series, two episodes)
- 2005: Supernatural ( TV series, one episode)
- 2007: Samantha Who? (TV series, one episode)
- 2007-2012: Chuck ( TV Series, 21 episodes)
- 2010: V - The Visitors ( V, TV series, one episode)
- 2012: White Collar (TV series, one episode)
- 2013: The Mentalist (TV series, three episodes)
Private life
Robert Duncan McNeill is married since 1988 and has three children.