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Happy Birthday Jonathan Frakes
Topic Started: Aug 19 2005, 11:41 AM (126 Views)
Sophie
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Happy birthday to Jonathan Frakes

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Jonathan Frakes plays Commander William Riker, the U.S.S. Enterprise's executive officer and second-in-command. "Riker's job is to provide Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) with the most efficiently-run ship and the best prepared crew he can," Jonathan explains. "As a result, he maintains a more military bearing than the other characters, despite the fact that salutes and other military protocol no longer exist in the 24th century."

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Jonathan was an undergraduate at Penn State and continued his education at Harvard, spending several seasons with the Loeb Drama Center. He then spent five years in New York, appearing on and off Broadway in several regional theater productions.

Prior to his role as Riker, Jonathan had recurring roles in such shows as Falcon Crest, Paper Dolls and Bare Essence, and for years was a contract player on the daytime drama The Doctors. His other television work includes the television movie "The Nutcracker" and the critically praised roles in the miniseries "Dream West" and "North & South" (Parts I and II).

During the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan made his directorial debut with an episode of the series entitled "The Offspring." He so impressed the executive producers with his efforts that he directed a number of episodes in the remaining four seasons as well as episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jonathan then had the double duty of acting and directing in his feature film directoral debut in Star Trek: First Contact. Jonathan repeated this effort to much success in Star Trek: Insurrection.

Frakes is currently an executive producer/director on the TV series Roswell.

Jonathan is married to actress Genie Francis and resides in Los Angeles.
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Fesarius
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His birthday cannot be the same day as Gene Roddenberry's. But I will wish him one nevertheless.

Happy Birthday Jonathan Frakes!
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Sophie
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it is his birthday :lol: It's one of my cousins' birthday too.
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Fesarius
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^^^
Okay, then it can happen. ;)
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fireh8er
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Happy Birthday Number One! :wave2:
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TribbleMom
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Happy birthday to Commander -- oops, Captain Riker.
(I think I had heard before that he and the Great Bird shared a birthday).
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:ZZZZZ:




I know, that was mean.



Frakes did a lot of behind the scenes work on TNG even going back to season one. I hear he was sometimes the last guy to leave the set at night.


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