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Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Commander (later Captain) William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, voiced David Xanatos in the Disney animated series Gargoyles, and narrated the History…
Known for
- A Grand Biltmore Christmas — Winston2026
- The Sixty Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World — Self2026
- Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Podcast — Self2026
- Star Trek: Legenden — Self - William Riker2026
- The Mighty Nein — Zeenoth (voice)2025
- Butterfly in the Sky — Self (archive footage)2024
- The D-Con Chamber — Self2024
- Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event — Captain William Riker2023
- A Biltmore Christmas — Winston2023
- Star Trek: very Short Treks — Riker (voice)2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Jonathan Scott Frakes , ( 1952-08-19 ) August 19, 1952 (age 73) , Bellefonte, Pennsylvania , US
- Education
- Pennsylvania State University ( BFA ), Harvard University ( MA )
- Occupations
- Actor, director, television presenter
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouse
- Genie Francis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 )
- Relatives
- Ivor Francis (father-in-law)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jonathan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bellefonte
- Spouse
- Genie Francis
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Jonathan Frakes at Galaxy Con Columbus.jpg
- Residence
- Calabasas
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- Jonathan Frakes
- date of birth
- 1952-08-19
- social media followers
- 489665
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jonathan Frakes
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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- Template:Jonathan Frakes
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Encyclopedic overview
Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, voiced David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles, and narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He is the credited author of the novel The Abductors: Conspiracy, which was ghostwritten by Dean Wesley Smith.
Frakes began directing episodes of The Next Generation during its third season, and went on to direct the feature films Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and episodes of the later Star Trek series Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Picard, and Starfleet Academy. He also directed the feature films Clockstoppers (2002) and Thunderbirds (2004). He has since directed prolifically for television, including for The Librarian television films and series, Roswell, Leverage, Castle, and Burn Notice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jonathan Frakes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.