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Tony Carlin is an actor who played the physician in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "The Thaw".
Carlin is the son of actress Frances Sternhagen and late actor Thomas A. Carlin.
Among his acting resume are the films Wolfpack (1988), Lincoln and the War Within (1992, with Chris Sarandon), Into the Paradise (1995), The Nutty Professor (1996, with Michael Rothhaar, Julianne Christie, Athena Massey, and stunts by LaFaye Baker, Eugene Collier, and Rita Minor), and Apollo 11 (1996, with Jeffrey Nordling, Jim Metzler, Scott Alan Smith, Stephanie Niznik, Matt Frewer, Tim Kelleher, and George Murdock).
Carlin has also appeared in television series such as Chicago Hope (1994, with Carolyn Seymour), Silk Stalkings (1996, with Charlie Brill), Party of Five (1996, with Scott Grimes, Brenda Strong, and Aaron Lustig), Wings (1996, with Steven Weber), and in two episodes of Seinfeld (1992 and 1998, starring Jason Alexander, and with Gina Hecht and Heidi Swedberg in the first one, and Van Epperson, Richard Fancy, Brian George, Scott Jaeck, Phil Morris, Ed O'Ross, and Scott Klace in the latter one).