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James Frain (born 14 March 1968; age 56) is a British actor who portrays Sarek in Star Trek: Discovery. [1]
Frain came up in the British television and film circuit but was not exposed to American audiences until he was cast in the 1996 biopic Rasputin, costarring David Warner. Frain then made his American television debut in an episode of Tales From the Crypt called "Report from the Grave", starring John Kassir. He also appeared in series like 24, Invasion, The Tudors, True Blood, The Cape.
He played Theo Galavan in Gotham, which also featured Jeffrey Combs and Alexander Siddig.
He played the sadistic Ferdinand Chevalier on the Space/BBC America series Orphan Black, which included Star Trek alumni like Matt Frewer, Michelle Forbes, and Stephen McHattie. Frain's most recent television role was that of German-English billionaire Odin Reichenbach on the modern-day Sherlock Holmes adaptation, the CBS series "Elementary" created by Robert Doherty for that show's seventh and final season.
Star Trek appearances
Appearances as Sarek
- DIS:
- "The Vulcan Hello" (via dream and holo-communicator only)
- "Battle at the Binary Stars" (in flashback and psychic contact only)
- "Lethe"
- "The War Without, The War Within"
- "Will You Take My Hand?"
- "Brother"
- "Light and Shadows"
- "Perpetual Infinity" (archive footage)
- "Such Sweet Sorrow"
Additional appearances
Other appearances
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