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Michelan Sisti (born 27 May 1949; age 75) is the actor who appeared as the Ferengi Tol in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Bloodlines".

A puppeteer as well as an actor, Sisti donned a turtle costume to play the role of Michaelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Fellow Ferengi actor Josh Pais played Raphael in the film, while fellow Next Generation guest star Brian Tochi voiced Leonardo. Sisti also appeared as a pizza delivery man in the film. Both Sisti and Tochi reprised their respective roles for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991, starring David Warner and featuring Lisa Chess). Afterward, Sisti again acted in costume to play Charlene Sinclair, the 12-year-old daughter on Dinosaurs from 1991 through 1994.

Sisti also appeared in an episode of Babylon 5 with Mary Kay Adams, Ron Canada, Lenore Kasdorf, Andreas Katsulas, and Bill Mumy, and was the lead puppeteer on Baby Buddy in Buddy (1997). He also worked as a puppeteer for such films as George of the Jungle (1997), Lost in Space (1998), Men in Black II (2002), and Team America: World Police (2004).

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