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Sean Smith (born 5 October 1967; age 57) is the actor who portrayed a Takret officer in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "The Catwalk". He filmed his scenes for this episode in late October 2002 on Paramount Stage 18 and his costume was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X) In 2000, Smith voiced the Academy science officer, a Hodlytl officer and Adel Radsek in the video game Star Trek: Klingon Academy.

Smith was born in Palo Alto, California and attended the San Jose State University on an opera scholarship. Smith has portrayed various roles in stage plays and musicals, including The Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera (4 ½ years), and Chess, for which he received an Ovation Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the commercial spokesman for "AllTel", for which he filmed television spots, directed by Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen, and Christopher Guest.

In 1995, Smith made his television debut when he portrayed Hamlet in the Sisters episode Word of Honor along Elizabeth Hoffman, Cully Fredricksen and Warren Munson. This role was followed by guest appearances in the television series Mad About You (1998), Mad TV (1999, with Debra Wilson, Diana Lee Inosanto and Douglas Tait), The Pretender (1999, with Walker Brandt, Deborah Lacey, Tim Lounibos, Harve Presnell and Albie Selznick), Martial Law (1999, with Jude Ciccolella and Ashley Sierra Hughes), and Angel, with Maury Sterling, Scott L. Schwartz and Henry Kingi, Sr.), as well as a voice over role in The King and I (1999).

Smith continued with performances in The Drew Carey Show (2000), Ladies Man (2000, starring Stephen Root and Sharon Lawrence), Frasier (2000, starring Kelsey Grammer), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000, starring Paul Guilfoyle, with Timothy Carhart and Glenn Morshower), Time of Your Life (2000, with Gina Ravarra and Scott Allen Rinker), Spin City (2001, starring Richard Kind and Alan Ruck), Diagnosis: Murder (2001, with Diana Cignoni), Just Shoot Me! (2001, starring Wendie Malick, with Geneviere Anderson), Judging Amy (2002, with Gretchen German, Rachael Harris, Chris Sarandon and Anton Yelchin), For Your Love (2002), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2003, with Bumper Robinson and Gary Bullock), I'm with Her (2003), The West Wing (2003, starring Martin Sheen, with Gary Cole, Benjamin Brown, Cullen Chambers, Ron Marasco, Ron Canada and Chase Kim), 24 (2004, with Alexandra Lydon, Zachary Quinto, Alan Dale, Patrick Fabian and Michael Cavanaugh), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2005, with Rachel Nichols and Jennifer Hetrick), Numbers (2005), Gilmore Girls (2006), Girlfriends (2006, with Marina Sirtis), Justice (2006, starring Victor Garber), and What About Brian (2006, with Jeffrey Chase, D.C. Douglas, Gina Hecht and D. Elliot Woods).

He also played supporting roles in Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000, with Bruce Bohne and Tim Kelleher), Winter Break (2003), Something's Gotta Give (2003, with Patrick Fischler and Julia Rose), The Bourne Supremacy (2004, starring Matt Damon, with Karl Urban), the short film Art Thief Musical! (2004, with Autumn Reeser), David Richard Ellis' Cellular (2004, with Lenore Kasdorf and Matt McColm), Spanglish (2004), and A Lot Like Love (2005, with James Read and Justin Rodgers Hall).

Further credits include American Heiress (2007, with Marshall R. Teague), recurring roles in The Young and the Restless (2009) and iCarly (2009-12, with Shawn Crowder, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Tim Russ, Andrew Hill Newman and Dorenda Moore), guest roles in Cavemen (2007), Desperate Housewives (2007, with Teri Hatcher and Brenda Strong), The Game (2007, with Wren T. Brown, Robert Curtis Brown and Coby Bell), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008, starring Thomas Dekker), Modern Family (2010, starring Ariel Winter)), House (2010), Cougar Town (2011, with Robert Clendenin), Justified (2011, starring Timothy Olyphant, with Mark Colson), Luck (2012, with Bruce Davison and Chic Daniel), Suburgatory (2013), and The Newsroom (2013, starring Alison Pill), Transformers (2007, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), Expecting Love (2008), the television drama Class (2010, with Wendy Schenker and Tom Virtue), the short thriller Psychosis (2011, with Richard Wharton), and A Mother's Rage (2013, with John Rubinstein).

Smith also guest starred in episodes of Rake (2014, starring Necar Zadegan, with Jeffrey Nordling and Bill Cobbs), Review (2015, with Dennis Cockrum), Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life (2016), and Hashtaggers (2016) and reprised his role of a photographer in The Bold and the Beautiful (2016).

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