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Robert Duncan McNeill (born November 9, 1964) is an American director, producer, and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the
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series '' Star Trek: Voyager''. He has also served as an executive producer and frequent director of the television series ''
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'', ''Resident Alien'', ''The Gifted'', and ''Turner & Hooch''.


Personal life

McNeill and his first wife, Carol, had three children together before their 2015 divorce. In 2005, McNeill directed his then teenaged daughter, Taylor, when she had a small role in the episode "
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" of the series '' Summerland''. His son Kyle is a singer songwriter. McNeill married Rebecca Jayne Sims in Vancouver, Canada, on March 7, 2021.


Career


Acting

McNeill grew up in
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, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at
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in
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. He enjoyed early success as a professional actor, winning the role of Charlie Brent on ''
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'' and starring in the feature film ''
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''. He also starred in an episode of the 1980s version of ''
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'', " A Message From Charity". He then appeared with
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in the Broadway production of '' Six Degrees of Separation'' before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television. He appeared in featured guest roles on numerous TV series, including '' L.A. Law''; ''
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''. He was a featured cast member on the short-lived 1992 series ''Going to Extremes'', Another guest role that same year was in "
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", an episode of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadet
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into covering up their wrongdoings. He would later become a ''Trek'' regular in 1995 on '' Star Trek: Voyager'', on which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's. Other credits include Zebulon in "
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.


Directing

McNeill began his directing career with several episodes of ''Voyager''. He then wrote, produced, and directed two award-winning short films, ''The Battery'' and ''9mm of Love'', and began to direct other episodic television shows. While he has since performed as a guest star on television shows such as '' The Outer Limits'' and ''
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'', McNeill is now focusing on his directing career, helming episodes of ''
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'', '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', ''
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'', '' The O.C.'', '' One Tree Hill'', ''
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'', '' Summerland'', and ''
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''. His directing credits for 2006–2007 include episodes of ''
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''. In 2007, he directed the season 5 premiere of ''
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'', the pilot of ''
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'' (which features his '' Star Trek: Voyager'' costar Tim Russ) and then signed on as a producer-director of the NBC show ''
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,'' helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a television show to be broadcast entirely in 3D. In 2010, McNeill directed an episode of ''V'', an ABC science fiction television series produced by Scott Rosenbaum, a former writer and executive producer on ''Chuck''. As of 2019 he has directed two episodes of the Fox series ''
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'' and '' The Gifted''. In 2021, McNeill directed several episodes of the Disney+ series ''Turner & Hooch''.


Filmography


Films


Television


Video Games


References


External links

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