Robert Duncan McNeill

Robert Duncan McNeill (born November 9, 1964) He enjoyed early success as a professional actor, winning the role of Charlie Brent on All My Children and starring in the feature film Masters of the Universe alongside Courteney Cox. He starred in "A Message from Charity", an episode of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone.

He appeared with Stockard Channing in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation. McNeill played the role of Jack in the national touring company of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award–winning musical, before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television. He also featured in guest roles on several TV series, including L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, and Murder, She Wrote. He was a featured cast member on the short-lived 1992 series Going to Extremes. Another guest role that same year was in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadets (including Wesley Crusher) into covering up their wrongdoings. In 1995, he became a Trek regular on Star Trek: Voyager, in which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's. In 2023, he reprised the role of Nick Locarno in Star Trek: Lower Decks season four.

His other credits include Zebulun in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Paper Mill Playhouse.

Directing

McNeill began his directing career with four episodes of Voyager. He then wrote, produced, and directed two award-winning short films, The Battery starring Joshua Jackson and 9mm of Love, and began to direct other episodic television shows. While he has since performed as a guest star on television shows such as The Outer Limits and Crossing Jordan, McNeill is now focusing on his directing career, helming episodes of Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dead Like Me, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Las Vegas, Summerland, and Supernatural. His directing credits for 2006–2007 included episodes of Desperate Housewives, Medium, Standoff, The Nine, The Knights of Prosperity, In Case of Emergency, What About Brian, and My Boys. In 2007, he directed the season-five premiere of Las Vegas, the pilot of Samantha Who?, and then signed on as a producer-director of the NBC show Chuck, helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a television show to be broadcast entirely in three dimensional style. From 2010 through 2015, McNeill directed episodes of V, Smash, White Collar, Breaking In, The Mentalist, Blue Bloods, Suburgatory, Warehouse 13, Mind Games, and Red Band Society. In 2013, McNeill became an executive producer and director of Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce for all 5 seasons. As of 2019, he has directed episodes of the Fox series The Orville, as well as episodes of A Million Little Things, The Resident, and Suits, as well as executive produced and directed The Gifted. In 2021, McNeill executive produced and directed several episodes of the Disney+ series Turner & Hooch. In 2019, he became the producer-director on SYFY's Resident Alien, now in its 4th season. From 2022 to 2024, McNeill directed episodes of So Help Me Todd, True Lies, and Alert: Missing Persons Unit.

Podcast In May 2020, McNeill and Voyager co-star Garrett Wang started the podcast The Delta Flyers, wherein they discuss episodes of Voyager. The show has been successful enough that it has progressed to episodes of Deep Space Nine, with Armin Shimerman and Terry Farrell as regular hosts.

Personal life McNeill and his first wife, Carol, had three children together before their 2015 divorce.

In 2005, McNeill directed his then-teenaged daughter, Taylor, when she had a small role in the episode "The Pleiades" of the series Summerland.

His son Kyle is a singer-songwriter.

McNeill married Rebecca Jayne McNeill in Vancouver, Canada, on March 7, 2021.

Filmography

Films Year Title Credit Role Notes 1981 Sharky's Machine Teen on bus Uncredited role 1987 Masters of the Universe Kevin Corrigan 1997 Trekkies Himself 1998 The Battery Director and Executive Producer Short film 2000 9mm of Love Director, Writer, and Executive Producer 2002 Infested Eric 2011 FedCon XX: The SciFi Experience Himself Documentary

Television

Video games Year Title Role Notes 2000 Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force Tom Paris Voice role 2015 Star Trek Online 2026 Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown