When auditioning for the role of Martok for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), the casting director told him to show more anger so he threw a chair at a wall. The display cost him a thumbnail, but won him the role. He won the role over his best friend at the time, Ron Canada.
In November 2013, he was elected to the Ulysses (New York) Town Board for a two-year term. In 2016, he was elected to the town council board for a four-year term extending to 2020.
My dad was career Air Force, my mother career Latin and French high school teacher. Never in a 1000 years would I have ever expected to be driving to my job through the arched gates of Paramount Studios, Hollywood.