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Michael Mack
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Michael Mack
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1962-02-06, Washington, D.C.
Gender
Male
Biography
Michael Mack is an Actor, Writer, Producer and Founder/Instructor of the Fearless Acting Workshop in Washington D.C. A native of Washington D.C., Mack was fortunate enough to work at the K-B MacArthur Theater when it featured the world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. On opening night, Mack met the entire lead cast. As a budding writer, one of his dreams was to write for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in part, because they were the most writer friendly series to work for. He was fortunate enough to join the TNG writing team for a six-week internship in 1994 during the series' seventh season, working with such greats as Jeri Taylor, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, and René Echevarria. Though he was not allowed to write an episode themselves, he was allowed to contribute ideas to the episodes. His main job was to review the unsolicited scripts that were submitted to the series, where on one occasion he found an idea in one of the submitted scripts that he successfully pitched. Because of Mack's Shakespearean background, he was approached by Taylor, who encouraged him to audition for any guest roles that might arise during his stay. Initially he was offered a role in "Parallels" to portray one of the Enterprise-D captains from another quantum reality, a role that eventually became that of Riker from the alternate Borg conquered Federation. He turned the audition for role down because he felt that it was simply too short and there was no way to play it "credibly" because all the performance required was a "freak out". When the next episode, "The Pegasus", was being cast, he told Taylor that he wanted to audition for the role of the Romulan Commander Sirol, who was originally written as a female character with a single scene. In spite of being a black actor auditioning for a species traditionally depicted by white actors, he reminded Taylor of the black "Vulcan midwife" who appeared in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and seeing as Romulans were "cousins" to the Vulcans, he saw no reason why there couldn't also be black Romulans. Taylor gave Mack her answer the next morning by offering him an opportunity to audition, and after Mack impressed both Taylor and episode director LeVar Burton, he was given the role, becoming not only the first writing intern to act on the show, but more importantly the first actor to portray a black Romulan. Following his being cast in the role, Braga and Moore expanded the role and made the character a bit more complex on Mack's behalf.

Filmography

Violets Are Blue

4.864

Violets Are Blue
1986-04-04

3.4

Murder Eleven
2013-10-02

The Battle of Bunker Hill

0

The Battle of Bunker Hill
2009-01-01

Star Trek: Generations

6.5

Star Trek: Generations
1994-11-18

6.545

Sunset Park
1996-04-26

Malice: Metamorphosis

9.5

Malice: Metamorphosis
2014-02-26

Star Trek: The Next Generation

8.371

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-09-28

7.484

Veep
2012-04-22

8.252

The West Wing
1999-09-22

California Dreams

6.8

California Dreams
1992-09-12

7.4

La Brea
2021-09-28

7.143

Ned & Stacey
1995-09-11

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

6.736

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
1992-09-22

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

7.6

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993-01-01

8.6

The Wire
2002-06-02

Beverly Hills, 90210

7.3

Beverly Hills, 90210
1990-10-04