Marc Alaimo

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Marc Alaimo
Born	Michael Anthony Alaimo May 5, 1942 (1942-05-05) (age 66) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

Marc Alaimo (born May 5, 1942) is an American actor.

Alaimo was born Mike Alaimo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After working with the Marquette University Players and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Company, Alaimo moved to New York and landed the recurring role of villainous Virgil Paris in the TV soap opera, Somerset. He is best known for playing the villainous Cardassian Gul Dukat, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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, Knight Rider, 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 Leslie Nielsen farce Naked Gun: 33 1/3, in Tango and Cash with Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell 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 Time's 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.

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

Alaimo has been married and divorced twice. His two children were both born on May 5, which is also Alaimo's birthday.