Anthony Azizi (born 29 May 1969; age 56) is an actor who played an Orion drug dealer in the Star Trek: Picard third season episode "The Next Generation".
Azizi started acting on stage as a child. He attended Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, where his schoolmates included fellow future Trek alumni Dwayne Johnson and Daniel Dae Kim. He planned to embark on a soccer career and received a soccer scholarship to Muhlenberg College, but had to give up his dreams because of a knee injury. He then turned to acting and received a BA diploma in Theater at Muhlenberg. After graduation, he moved to New York City where he became a stage actor.
He made his screen acting debut in McHale's Navy (1997, with Dean Stockwell and Erick Avari). This has been followed by a steady film and television career with over ninety credits. Azizi appeared in films such as Three Kings (1999, starring Mark Wahlberg, with Doug Jones), Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006, with Shea Whigham), Charlie Wilson's War (2007, with Brian Markinson, Cyia Batten, Rachel Nichols, Faran Tahir, James W. Jansen, Spencer Garrett and Ron Ostrow), Eagle Eye (2008, with Bill Smitrovich, William Sadler, Deborah Strang and J. Patrick McCormack), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, with Glenn Morshower, Tom Virtue, Jack Axelrod, and the voices of Leonard Nimoy, Jess Harnell, Robert Foxworth, George Coe, Tom Kenny and Keith Szarabajka), and Armed Response (2014).
In 2003-04, Azizi co-starred in Threat Matrix, in which Colby French, Alice Krige had recurring roles and Julie Warner, Tamlyn Tomita, Marina Sirtis, Wade Andrew Williams, Derek Webster, Brad Greenquist, Saul Rubinek and Leon Russom appeared in guest parts. In 2005-06, he co-starred in Commander in Chief, in which Samantha Eggar, Tony Plana and Tzi Ma recurring, with Eric Pierpoint, Wendy Davis, Stephen Lee, William Lucking, Tamlyn Tomita and Sumalee Montano.
He also had recurring roles in several series, including 24 (2002-05, with Penny Johnson, James Frain, Gregory Itzin, Jude Ciccolella, Michelle Forbes, Tracy Middendorf, Harris Yulin, Michael McGrady, Ned Vaughn and J. Patrick McCormack, directed by James Whitmore, Jr.), J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof's Lost (2008-10, starring Naveen Andrews, Terry O'Quinn and Daniel Dae Kim, with Alan Dale, Galyn Görg and Michelle Forbes), Single Ladies (2011, with Anthony Montgomery), 90210 (2011, with Ray Wise and Michelle Hurd), and American Odyssey (2015, with Orla Brady and Connor Trinneer).
Azizi can be seen in guest roles in episodes of series such as The Agency (starring Ronnie Cox, with Nan Martin), JAG (with Scott Lawrence and Bruce Gray, directed by Terrence O'Hara), The Shield (starring Michael Jace, Benito Martinez and Jay Karnes), Gilmore Girls, NYPD Blue, The West Wing (starring Martin Sheen, with Christopher Lloyd and Ron Ostrow), Desperate Housewives (starring Teri Hatcher and Brenda Strong, with Rick Fitts and Rick Scarry, directed by Larry Shaw), Criminal Minds (with Brad Blaisdell and Hiro Koda), Without a Trace (starring Enrique Murciano, with Tim Russ), CSI: Miami, Veronica Mars (with Cristina Milizia), Chuck (with Gary Cole and Bonita Friedericy), Prison Break (starring Robert Knepper, with Leon Russom, Raphael Sbarge and Kelli Kirkland), Lie to Me (with Jonathan Banks), Brannon Braga's FlashForward (starring John Cho, with Peyton List, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Prosky, James Frain and Gabrielle Union), The Mentalist (with Erich Anderson), CSI: NY, Person of Interest (with Mark Margolis), NCIS: Los Angeles (with Glenn Morshower, directed by James Whitmore, Jr.), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham), Grey's Anatomy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (with Michael G. Hagerty), Sons of Anarchy (with Ron Perlman and Peter Weller), Criminal Minds: Without Borders (with Tina Lifford), The Blacklist (with Oded Fehr and Benito Martinez), Homeland (with F. Murray Abraham, Maury Sterling and Robert Knepper), How to Get Away with Murder (with Amirah Vann), The Rookie (with Harry Groener), SEAL Team, and The Equalizer.