Template:Realworld Mark Rolston (born 7 December 1956; age 67) is an actor made his first appearance in the Star Trek universe in 1994, on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He later appeared on Star Trek: Enterprise in 2003 and 2004.
Rolston and Star Trek Generations actress Jenette Goldstein played privates in the widely-acclaimed 1986 science fiction film Aliens. They would later co-star together in Lethal Weapon 2 (also featuring Sherman Howard). Rolston has also appeared in such popular films as The Fourth Protocol (1987, with Joanna Cassidy and Matt Frewer), Robocop 2 (1990, co-starring Peter Weller, John Glover, Robert Doqui, Roger Aaron Brown, and Bill Bolender), The Shawshank Redemption (1994, with Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Jude Ciccolella, and Bill Bolender), Eraser (1996, with James Cromwell and Patrick Kilpatrick), Rush Hour (1998), and The Departed (2006).
In addition, Ralston has made guest appearances on such television series as Babylon 5 (alongside Andreas Katsulas and Bill Mumy), Murder, She Wrote (with William Windom), The X-Files, 24 (with Penny Johnson, Glenn Morshower and Zachary Quinto), NYPD Blue (with Gordon Clapp), and Alias.
He also appeared in the acclaimed 1998 mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, playing astronaut Gus Grissom, after whom the USS Grissom was named.
Others who appeared in the mini series are Sam Anderson, David Andrews, Dan Butler, David Clennon, Ronny Cox, Brett Cullen, J. Downing, Ann Cusack, David Drew Gallagher, Jerry Hardin, Clint Howard, Daniel Hugh Kelly, John Carroll Lynch, Dakin Matthews, Kieran Mulroney, Conor O'Farrell, Holmes R. Osborne, Harve Presnell, Stephen Root, Alan Ruck, and Winona Ryder.
Rolston recently joined the cast of Saw V, the fifth entry in the highly popular series of horror films.[1] Saw V is set for theatrical release on 24 October 2008.
Other Trek connections
Additional projects in which Rolston appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989 TV movie, with Brian Keith)
- Prancer (1989 film, with Loren Janes)
- Body of Evidence (1993 film, with Michael Forest, Richard Riehle, and Frank Langella)
- Scanner Cop (1994 film, with Richard Lynch)
- The Set Up (1995 film, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. and Roy Jenson)
- George Wallace (1997 TV movie, with Clarence Williams III and Cliff deYoung)
- Hard Rain (1998 film, with Christian Slater and Anthony Montgomery)
- I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998 film, with Ron Perlman, Carel Struycken, Steven Weber, and Lee Arenberg)
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