Trek actors who do other work post-Trek?
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Um - which was the one where he played the actor? That was my favourite (haven't seen them for years).
That was "Fade In to Murder," where Shatner played an actor who was the star of a popular TV detective series -- Columbo poking a bit of fun at itself and its genre.
In "Butterfly," he played a controversial right-wing radio commentator in the Limbaugh mold.
In "Butterfly," he played a controversial right-wing radio commentator in the Limbaugh mold.
Just watched Kate Mulgrew play opposite Christopher McDonald (aka Lt. Castillo) in a so-so indie film called "The Best and the Brightest," starring Neil Patrick Harris, Amy Sedaris, and Peter Serafinowicz. Apparently the movie was made by a circle of stage actors who wanted to work together on a movie. So Kate's still active in a few circles post-Voyager.
Ethan Phillips was in the Michael Bay movie The Island in a small, but significant role.
Brent Spiner did a voice role on The Simpsons earlier this year, although it was kind of typecasting, since he played robots that were used to replace the nuclear plant workers.
...To be forgotten the day after...
Tell that to the tragic victims of the Arachnoquake . . . .
I assume you caught her recurring role on Warehouse 13 last season?
Mulgrew also won an Obie (Off-Broadway Theater Award) for her role in Iphigenia 2.0. She was also in Antony and Cleopatra - here's a link to a review in The NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24theatct.html.
She's done quite a bit of theater work since VOY, actually.
And of course Patrick Stewart has done some outstanding stage work. I recently bought a DVD of his reportedly fabulous performance in Macbeth (one of my favorites). I haven't watched it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
She's done quite a bit of theater work since VOY, actually.
And of course Patrick Stewart has done some outstanding stage work. I recently bought a DVD of his reportedly fabulous performance in Macbeth (one of my favorites). I haven't watched it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
If you like that you should check out the recent Hamlet he did too (if you havent already). It's on blu ray and dvd. Also stars David Tenant. Patrick stewart plays both King Hamlet and Claudius. I thought it was amazing. It was also modernized like his macbeth.
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Blu-ray-David-Tennant/dp/B0038RSIGA
The modernization in the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet TV production didn't work well for me. If there were all those ubiquitous security cameras, why was everyone still hiding behind arrases?
You're taking it far too literally
^No, I'm disagreeing with the interpretive choices they made. I think they could've better incorporated the modernization into the story, made it work with the text instead of against it.
I'm with Christopher on this one - it was OK, performance-wise, but wasn't well thought-out staging-wise.
McKellen's Richard III movie did a much better job of a thought-out update.
McKellen's Richard III movie did a much better job of a thought-out update.
I don't watch the show, but hey, more power to its fans.
Last I checked however, Harris, Sedaris, and most of the cast from the aforementioned movie don't usually work with sci-fi, so it was nice to see Kate with a non sci-fi ensemble. On a side note, her husband in the film is played by the fairly ubiquitous Christopher McDonald, aka Lt. Castillo from "Yesterday's Enterprise."
I never said I didn't like it, just that there was one particular element about it that I consider flawed. The performances were great. Certainly Patrick Stewart's King Claudius was immeasurably better than his performance in the same role in the 1980 BBC production opposite Derek Jacobi as Hamlet (and Lalla Ward as Ophelia). Back then, he came off as pompous and shallow, and recited the lines at such a brisk pace that you'd think he was late for an appointment. This time, he brought so much depth and grandeur and sympathy to the role that, if anything, it undermined the text's insistence that Claudius was a base and unworthy king. And Tennant was fantastic too, with the same mix of manic energy and deep brooding that he brought to the Doctor, yet in a totally different way. My biggest problem with it was that it was abridged, and worse, a couple of the soliloquies got trimmed.
Here are my blog reviews of the two productions:
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/hamlet-with-time-lords-and-picard-version-1/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/hamlet-with-time-lords-and-picard-version-2/
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