Marc Alaimo

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Marc Alaimo (born Mike Alaimo, May 5, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor. After working with the Marquette University Players and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Company, Alaimo moved to New York and landed the recurring role of Virgil Paris in the TV soap opera, Somerset.

Alaimo has been playing characters in television shows since 1973. He has appeared, mostly as villains, in shows such as Kojak, Gunsmoke, Baretta, The Bionic Woman, Starsky and Hutch, Quincy, The Greatest American Hero, The Incredible Hulk and Hill Street Blues. Marc has appeared in some feature films, including the 1984 classic science fiction movie The Last Starfighter (portraying the human guise of an alien assassin), the farce Leslie Nielsen movie Naked Gun: 33 1/3 and the 1988 film The Dead Pool. He also appeared as a Martian security officer in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Total Recall.

He played several characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation, starting in the first season, including the first Romulan "Commander Tebok" and the first Cardassian "Gul Macet " seen in that series. He also played a poker player who speaks french to Data in the episode Times Arrow. In 1993, Alaimo began playing Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat was a recurring character, who appeared in 37 episodes of DS9.

Marc Alaimo also featured in the 2006 video game Call of Juarez as the voice of the gunslinging Reverend Ray McCall.

[edit] External links

• Marc Alaimo at the Internet Movie Database
• Marc Alaimo at TV.com
• Marc Alaimo article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.

Major Cast Members of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Avery Brooks | Nana Visitor | Terry Farrell | Rene Auberjonois | Alexander Siddig | Colm Meaney | Michael Dorn | Cirroc Lofton | Armin Shimerman | Chase Masterson | Max Grodénchik | Aron Eisenberg | Nicole de Boer | Andrew Robinson | J. G. Hertzler | Casey Biggs | Marc Alaimo | Jeffrey Combs | Louise Fletcher | Salome Jens