Thomas Kopache
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Thomas Kopache (born October 17, 1945 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA) is an American actor. He is probably best known as Assistant Secretary of State Bob Slatterly in The West Wing and for various roles in the Star Trek franchise. He has also appeared in the stage productions of As You Like It as the Barnished Duke and in Antigone as Creon. He is one of few people who have appeared in all of the Star Trek television series (excluding the original) and, along with Jeffrey Combs, J.G. Hertzler and Randy Oglesby, is one of only four actors to portray as many as seven characters.
His largest Star Trek role was as Kira Taban, the father of Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kopache played Taban in "Ties of Blood and Water" and "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night".
Kopache had earlier played a Romulan in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase", a hologram in "Emergence" and a Starfleet officer in Star Trek Generations.
[edit] External links
- Thomas Kopache at the Internet Movie Database
- Thomas Kopache article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
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