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Jonathan Frakes

Highest Rated: 93% Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Lowest Rated: 19% Thunderbirds (2004)

Birthday: Aug 19, 1952

Birthplace: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

This tall leading man with a Cheshire cat grin and an engagingly relaxed quality is best known as Commander Riker, Captain Picard's 'Number One' man, on the syndicated sci-fi smash, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-94). A Pennsylvania native, Frakes began his career on stage at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He landed in NYC where he continued to hone his craft in such theatrical productions as the musical "Shenandoah." Frakes began landing roles on TV in the late 1970s and has since found plenty of work in miniseries. His stalwart, manly charm has adorned the Southern-fried soaps "Beulah Land" (NBC, 1980), "North and South" (ABC, 1985), the simultaneously shot "North and South, Book II" (ABC, 1986) and the eternal return, "John Jakes' Heaven and Hell: North and South, Part III" (ABC, 1994). Frakes also starred opposite his future wife Genie Francis in the TV-movie "Bare Essence" (NBC, 1982), which showed how much the perfume industry really stunk. The actor has also racked up credits in several other longforms.

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 89% Star Trek: First Contact Watchlist
78% 64% Catwoman: Hunted
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55% 44% Star Trek: Insurrection Watchlist 47% 57% Star Trek Generations Watchlist 38% 49% Star Trek: Nemesis Watchlist 33% 29% Devil's Gate Watchlist 29% 30% Clockstoppers Watchlist
19% 37% Thunderbirds
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66% Trek Nation
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43% Brothers of the Frontier
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
A Biltmore Christmas 91% 2023 Winston Actor Catwoman: Hunted 78% 64% 2022 King Faraday/Boss Moxie Voice Devil's Gate 33% 29% 2018 Sheriff Gruenwell Actor Trek Nation 66% 2010 Actor The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice 56% 2008 Director The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice 2008 Director The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines 49% 2006 Director Thunderbirds 19% 37% 2004 Director Star Trek: Nemesis 38% 49% 2002 Commander William T. Riker Actor Clockstoppers 29% 30% 2002 Director Dying to Live 1999 Will Actor, Executive Producer Star Trek: Insurrection 55% 44% 1998 Commander William T. Riker Actor, Director Star Trek: First Contact 93% 89% 1996 Commander William Thomas Riker Actor, Director Brothers of the Frontier 43% 1996 Ben Frye Actor Star Trek Generations 47% 57% 1994 Riker Actor Gargoyles, the Movie: The Heroes Awaken 86% 1994 Voice The Cover Girl and the Cop 1989 Joshua Boyleston Actor Bare Essence 1982 Marcus Marshall Actor Beach Patrol 1979 Marty Green Actor
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