Juan De Villa (born 8 March – died 5 January 2024) was an actor who worked as regular background actor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
De Villa's first known role is as inspector in the Mexican silent short film El Resplandor del Brillante en los Ojos Dormidos en La Mariguana in 1967. He also had a minor role in the television drama Death Takes a Holiday (1971, with Monte Markham and directed by Robert Butler).
A longtime member of the Screen Extras Guild, De Villa appeared as background actor in episodes of The Love Boat (1979-1984, with David Armstrong, Gerald David Bauman, Devron Conrad, Tony Dante, Bob Davis, Anthony Gordon, Debra Dilley, Roger Trantham, Marcello Clay, Mike Paciorek, James Sloyan, Fritz Weaver, Amy Cook, Candace Crump, Bruce Dobos, Peter Eastman, Leroy Hardy, Monty O'Grady, Evans Ricciardi, Kimberly L. Ryusaki, and Jill Vance), Night Court (1984, with Karen Austin, John Larroquette, Jeff Corey, George D. Wallace, John Staible, Adele Yoshioka, Jimmy Fields, and Tony Rocco), Falcon Crest (1982-1989, with Robert Foxworth, Nick Ramus, Mario Marcelino, Robert Sampson, Robert Lombardo, John Staible, Roger Perry, Andrew J. Robinson, Biff Elliot, Benjie Bancroft, Nick Borgani, David Channell, Rebecca Parker, Sally Yarnell, Dana Sparks, Edward Laurence Albert, Brett Cullen, Jill Jacobson, Richard McGonagle, Nils Nichols, Mike Paciorek, Gene Poe, Kevin G. Tracey, Roger Trantham, Kai J. Wong, Theodore Bikel, Christopher Held, Robert O'Reilly, Buzz Barbee, Peter Eastman, Buck McDancer, Alex Zimmerman, Gregg Henry, Shirley Anthony, Gayle Frank, Roberta Storm, Castulo Guerra, Allan G. Royal, Ryan MacDonald, Morgan Nagler, Angela Paton, Maria Berman, Ivonne Perez, Lee Bergere, and Larry Humburger), The Colbys (1986-1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Evelyn Guerrero, Leroy Hardy, Robert Hitchcock, Tim McCormack, Tony Rocco, Debra Dilley, Roberta Storm, Robert Sampson, and Larry Humburger), and Dynasty (1984-1989, with Joan Collins, Conroy Gedeon, David Armstrong, Buzz Barbee, John Burnside, Bob Davis, Peter Eastman, Anthony Gordon, Alan Hugo, Suzanne Lodge, Evans Ricciardi, Michael Zurich, Roger Trantham, Jill Vance, Billy Campbell, Dennis Howard, James Horan, Robert Buckingham, George Sasaki, Nick Trisko, Pat McGroarty, Nils Nichols, Marcello Clay, Bob Davis, Geoff Vanderstock, Devron Conrad, Anthony Zerbe, Tricia O'Neil, Warren Munson, Shirley Anthony, Bruce Dobos, Mike Mitchell, Irene Sale, William Ward, John D. Gowans, Spike Silver, Joel Marston, Tom Morga, Richard Sarstedt, and Brian J. Williams).
He also had background roles in feature films such as the comedy The Man with One Red Shoe (1985, with Gerrit Graham, David L. Lander, David Ogden Stiers, Richard McGonagle, David Selburg, Ivy Bethune, Noél De Souza, Lee Allen, Bill Baker, Joey Banks, Shirley Blackwell, Nick Borgani, Darren Dublin, Fritz Herzog, Suzanne Lodge, Joel Schultz, and Arthur Tovey), the comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985, with Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, John Paragon, George Sasaki, Bill Baker, Faith Burton, Dorothy Hack, Clay Hodges, and John Staible), the music comedy Get Out of My Room (1985, with John Paragon, and the drama The Bodyguard (1992, with Bill Cobbs, Mike Starr, Bert Remsen, Donald Hotton, Douglas Price, Robert Buckingham, Bruce Dobos, Lanier Edwards, Kevin Grevioux, Adolphus Hankins, Dan Koko, Mark Kosakura, Robert Lombardo, Rudy Morrison, Nils Nichols, Wanda Norman, Jim Portnoy, Evans Ricciardi, Michelle Rudy, George Sasaki, Fran Severini, Theresa St. Clair, Roberta Storm, John Tesh, Curt Truman, and Dena Weyman).
In addition, De Villa worked as stand-in such as on the comedy Bowfinger (1999, with Eddie Murphy, John Prosky, Nathan Anderson, John Cho, Kevin Grevioux, Kimble Jemison, and fellow stand-ins Ray Berrios and Allan Bragg). More recently, De Villa worked as background actor on the Marvel television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-2015).