Known for:	Star Trek: First Contact, Independence Day, The Aviator
Birth name:	Brent Jay Spiner
Birthday:	2 February 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
Height:	5' 11" (1.80 m)

Released CD titled "Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back" (based on an old crooner song of the '40s) with his male co-stars from ST-NG singing back up. Title of CD refers to his character of 'Data' on the show. Last name changed to Mintz at about age 6, re-adopted Spiner as a stage name at about age 20. He was a groomsman at Marina Sirtis's wedding, and served as Best Man at Patrick Stewart's wedding. Godfather of Gates McFadden's son. Graduated from Bellaire High School (Texas) in 1968 Has a son named "Jackson" born June 29, 2002. In October 2004, began three guest appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise, as Arik Soong, an ancestor of Noonian Soong, the creator of Data, his character from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also played Noonian Soong in the TNG episodes "Brothers" and "Inheritance". Is the only Houstonian, and for that matter, the only Texan, who appears in The Aviator, whose subject, Howard Hughes, was born in Houston. Has appeared with Erick Avari in three different productions: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Independence Day and The Master of Disguise. Has played five different members of the Soong family on "Star Trek": Lt. Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis and Star Trek: Enterprise, Dr. Noonien Soong and Lore in Star Trek: The Next Generation, B-4 in Star Trek: Nemesis and Dr. Arik Soong in Star Trek: Enterprise. Data, Lore and B-4 were all androids made in Dr. Noonien Soong's image and Dr. Arik Soong was his great-grandfather. Along with Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Colm Meaney and Jeffrey Combs, he is one of only six actors to appear in the series finales of two different "Star Trek" series (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Enterprise). Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gargoyles and Star Trek: Enterprise Is the only Star Trek: The Next Generation regular to share scenes with all three Star Trek cast members who appeared on that series: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan. Played a fictional character (James Campbell) in Friends and himself in the spin-off series Joey. Felt that he was getting too old to play Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation which led to his character being killed off. His character, Lt. Commander Data's "intriguing" went down in Trek history as replacing Mr. Spock's world famous "fascinating". Genre enthusiasts liken Spiner's Data to another, intelligent, golden automaton: C3PO, of the "Star Wars" trilogies.

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