History Creator / BrentSpiner

!!Prominent Roles that Brent Spiner has played:

!!Roles that Brent Spiner has played:
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (and all movies spun off it): Data/ Lore/ Dr. Noonien Soong / B-4

* ActingForTwo: Or three, or four. Data, Lore, Dr. Soong, and B-4 have all been played by Brent, and at least two or three of the aforementioned characters have shared some screen time. And then there was [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E8AFistfulOfDatas the time when several holodeck characters got turned into replicas of Data]].
* ActorAllusion: In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Them, Robot" (the season 23 episode that's best described as "that 'replace human workers with robots' gag from 'Last Exit to Springfield' stretched out to a 22-minute episode), Brent provided the voices for all the robots. He is best known for playing another kind of cybernetic being, namely an entire "family" of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration androids]].

* ActingForTwo: Or three, or four. Data, Lore, Dr. Soong, and B-4 have all been played by Brent, and at least two or three of the aforementioned characters have shared some screen time.

Brent Spiner (February 2, 1949-) is a native Texan known famously for his role as the pale-skinned android Data in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', began his acting career, coincidentally enough, the same way fellow ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumnus Creator/WilliamShatner did: in the theater. Thanks to his inspirational drama coach, Cecil Pickett (who also launched the careers of Dennis Quaid, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, and Thomas Schlamme), Spiner launched into an early career of professional theater after completing high school and college, performing in on- and off-Broadway plays like “A History of the American Film” and “Leave It to Beaver is Dead”. People remember him most for his role of Data, but Spiner has also had an extensive career in other television series, ranging from science fiction to comedy to romance, to animation, even to children’s films.

** ''Film/IndependenceDay'': [[spoiler:Okun, after attempting to perform an autopsy on the alien brought down by Will Smith, is seized by the alien's tentacles, beaten, and tossed around in a bloody and brutal fashion until Okun is lifeless, and then Okun is used by the alien as a mind puppet to send the main characters a message of death.]]

* ''Westernanimation/YoungJustice'': SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': Purple Man

* AdamWesting: In his webseries ''WebVideo/FreshHell.'' Also, in the WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" along with his castmates from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* ''FamilyGuy'': Himself (with the rest of the TNG cast, even [[AndZoidberg Denise Crosby]])

* AdamWesting: In his webseries ''WebVideo/FreshHell.'' Also, in the FamilyGuy episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" along with his castmates from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* AdamWesting: In his webseries ''WebVideo/FreshHell.'' Also, in the FamilyGuy episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" along with his castmates from StarTrekTheNextGeneration.

* AdamWesting: In his webseries ''WebVideo/FreshHell.''

* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': JohnAdams (1997 Broadway revival).

** ''Film/IndependenceDay'': [[spoiler:Okun,after attempting to perform an autopsy on the alien brought down by Will Smith, is seized by the alien's tentacles, beaten, and tossed around in a bloody and brutal fashion until Okun is lifeless, and then Okun is used by the alien as a mind puppet to send the main characters a message of death.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (and all movies spun off it)- Data/ Lore/ Dr. Noonien Soong / B-4
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''- Data/Dr. Arik Soong
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''- Creator/ConanOBrien
* ''Film/IndependenceDay''- Dr. Brackish Okun
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''- Puck
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}''- Bill Grand
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}''- Albert
* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''- Gabriel Rylander
* ''Westernanimation/YoungJustice''- SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker
* ''WebVideo/FreshHell''- Himself

A native Texan known famously for his role as the pale-skinned android Data in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Brent Spiner (February 2, 1949-) began his acting career, coincidentally enough, the same way fellow ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumnus Creator/WilliamShatner did: in the theater. Thanks to his inspirational drama coach, Cecil Pickett (who also launched the careers of Dennis Quaid, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, and Thomas Schlamme), Spiner launched into an early career of professional theater after completing high school and college, performing in on- and off-Broadway plays like “A History of the American Film” and “Leave It to Beaver is Dead”. People remember him most for his role of Data, but Spiner has also had an extensive career in other television series, ranging from science fiction to comedy to romance, to animation, even to children’s films.

A native Texan known famously for his role as the pale-skinned android Data in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Brent Spiner began his acting career, coincidentally enough, the same way fellow ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumnus Creator/WilliamShatner did: in the theater. Thanks to his inspirational drama coach, Cecil Pickett (who also launched the careers of Dennis Quaid, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, and Thomas Schlamme), Spiner launched into an early career of professional theater after completing high school and college, performing in on- and off-Broadway plays like “A History of the American Film” and “Leave It to Beaver is Dead”. People remember him most for his role of Data, but Spiner has also had an extensive career in other television series, ranging from science fiction to comedy to romance, to animation, even to children’s films.

* ''[[Series/Alphas Alphas]]'': Dr. Kerns

* ''Series/Alphas'': Dr. Kerns

* ActorAllusion: In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode ''Them, Robot'', Brent provided the voices for all the robots. He is best known for playing another kind of cybernetic being, namely an entire "family" of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration androids]].

** He also voices Android 19 in [[DragonballAbridged Dragon Ball Z Abridged]]

* ''FreshHell''- Himself

* AdamWesting: In his webseries ''FreshHell.''