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Robert Duncan McNeill
McNeill at the Phoenix Comic Con in 2011
Born	(1964-11-09) November 9, 1964 (age 60) Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Juilliard School
Occupation(s)	Actor, producer, director
Years active	1981–present
Spouse(s)	Carol Seder ​ ​(m. 1988; div. 2015)​; Rebecca Jayne Sims ​(m. 2021)​
Children	3
Website	rdmdirector.com

Robert Duncan McNeill (born November 9, 1964) is an American director, producer, and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. He has also served as an executive producer and frequent director of the television series Chuck, Resident Alien, The Gifted, and Turner & Hooch.

Personal life

McNeill and his first wife, Carol, had three children together before their 2015 divorce. In 2005, McNeill directed his then teenaged daughter, Taylor, when she had a small role in the episode "The Pleiades" of the series Summerland. His son Kyle is a singer songwriter. McNeill married Rebecca Jayne Sims in Vancouver, Canada, on March 7, 2021.

Career

Acting

McNeill grew up in Atlanta, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at Juilliard School in New York City. He enjoyed early success as a professional actor, winning the role of Charlie Brent on All My Children and starring in the feature film Masters of the Universe. He also starred in an episode of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, "A Message From Charity". He then appeared with Stockard Channing in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television. He appeared in featured guest roles on numerous TV series, including L.A. Law; Quantum Leap; and Murder, She Wrote. He was a featured cast member on the short-lived 1992 series Going to Extremes, Another guest role that same year was in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadet Wesley Crusher into covering up their wrongdoings. He would later become a Trek regular in 1995 on Star Trek: Voyager, on which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's. Other credits include Zebulon in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Paper Mill Playhouse and Judas in "Godspell" at the Lamb's Theatre.

Directing

McNeill began his directing career with several episodes of Voyager. He then wrote, produced, and directed two award-winning short films, The Battery and 9mm of Love, and began to direct other episodic television shows. While he has since performed as a guest star on television shows such as The Outer Limits and Crossing Jordan, McNeill is now focusing on his directing career, helming episodes of Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dead Like Me, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Las Vegas, Summerland, and Supernatural. His directing credits for 2006–2007 include episodes of Desperate Housewives, Medium, Standoff, The Nine, The Knights of Prosperity, In Case of Emergency, What About Brian, and My Boys. In 2007, he directed the season 5 premiere of Las Vegas, the pilot of Samantha Who? (which features his Star Trek: Voyager costar Tim Russ) and then signed on as a producer-director of the NBC show Chuck, helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a television show to be broadcast entirely in 3D. In 2010, McNeill directed an episode of V, an ABC science fiction television series produced by Scott Rosenbaum, a former writer and executive producer on Chuck. As of 2019 he has directed two episodes of the Fox series The Orville and The Gifted. In 2021, McNeill directed several episodes of the Disney+ series Turner & Hooch.

Filmography

Films

Television

Video Games

References

1. ^ "Filmography". Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
2. ^ "Robert Duncan McNeill biography". TV.com. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
3. Sloan, Allison (1993-01-03). "Easy Rider". Soap Opera Digest. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
4. "The Pleiades". IMDb.
5. @robertdmcneill (17 September 2020). "My sons new album. Out now. #prouddad" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. Wedding Photos on Instagram
7. Henderson, Kathy (June 14, 1988). "Soap Opera Digest". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
8. "Biography, Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
9. ""All My Children," Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
10. ""Masters of the Universe," Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
11. ""A Message From Charity" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
12. ""Six Degrees of Separation" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
13. Sloan, Allison (January 1993). "Easy Rider". Soap Opera Digest. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
14. ""Going to Extremes" Official Homepage of Robert Duncan McNeill". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
15. ""Star Trek: Voyager Cast Robert Duncan McNeill" Startrek.com". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
16. Kaplan, Anna L (November 1997). "Paris at the Helm: Robert Duncan McNeill on His Shift From Actor to Director". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
17. Perenson, Melissa (June 2000). "The Final Season Looms, but Robert Duncan McNeill will Always Have Paris". Star Trek Communicator. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
18. "Filmography as Director, Internet Movie Database". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-08-23.
19. "Scott Rosenbaum, Filmography as Producer, Writer, Internet Movie Database". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-08-23.

External links

• Official website
• Robert Duncan McNeill at IMDb 
• Robert Duncan McNeill at the Internet Broadway Database

• 1964 births
• 20th-century American male actors
• 21st-century American male actors
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• American podcasters
• American television directors
• Juilliard School alumni
• Living people
• Male actors from North Carolina