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John Billingsley (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, known for a number of memorable TV and film characters, perhaps his most famous being the role of Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania and raised in Connecticut. He studied theatre at Bennington College in Vermont before moving to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Billingsley helped found Book-It, a theatre company specializing in stage adaptations, and Freehold, an acting studio. In the early 1990s, Billingsley began to appear in minor roles on television and film.
Billingsley currently resides in Los Angeles, California and remains active in theater. He is married to actress Bonita Friedericy, with whom he worked on a number of projects.
Career
He made a memorable appearance in an episode of The X-Files, playing a friend of the Lone Gunmen who turns out to be a government spy. He was cast in the role of Professor Miles Ballard in the short-lived television series The Others and then as the eccentric alien Doctor Phlox in the fifth Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise. He also starred in the independent film Breathing Hard (2000) in the same year. In 2002, he was a guest star in an episode of Stargate SG-1, playing a scientist who is also a Trekkie, "worship at the altar of Roddenberry". He also had a sizeable role as Denzel Washington's coroner friend in the 2003 film Out of Time.
He is well known to fans of the series Cold Case for his guest appearance in the show's second season playing serial killer George Marks. His character had the distinction of being the only killer on the show to get away with murder. Billingsly would later reprise the role in the season finale, in which George was finally killed.
More recently he appeared in the first season of the series Prison Break as the mysterious Terrence Steadman, brother of the Vice-President, whose death is faked to frame Lincoln Burrows for murder. Soon after he was cast as a regular on the series "The Nine". Consequently, this left him unable to continue his role as Steadman and was replaced in the role by Jeff Perry.
External links
- John Billingsley's official website
- John Billingsley at IMDb
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- John Billingsley at Memory Alpha
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