Stephen McHattie

Early life McHattie was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, on February 3, 1947 (the year of his birth has also been cited as 1945, 1946, and 1948), and raised in Guysborough County.

Career McHattie began his career on stage in the 1968 Broadway production of The American Dream. Two years later he made his film debut in The People Next Door. He appeared in other Broadway plays, including Mourning Becomes Electra in 1972, The Iceman Cometh in 1973, and Ghetto in 1989, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.

McHattie has appeared in many films and television shows including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, Highlander: The Series, and American Playhouse's Life Under Water (1989). His roles include 300, A History of Violence, The Fountain, Secretary, Shoot 'Em Up, Life with Billy, One Dead Indian, Beverly Hills Cop III. In Canada, he appeared in Canada: A People's History as Canadian hero Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, and in The Rocket as coach Dick Irvin. He appeared in the pilot of Sabbatical, voiced the villain The Shade in Justice League, and portrayed Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl, in the film adaptation of Watchmen.

McHattie had a well-received appearance in the sixth season episode "In the Pale Moonlight" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Romulan Senator Vreenak, who is the target of a Federation false flag operation to deceive the Romulan Empire into declaring war on the Dominion. The episode has often been cited as one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever produced, and McHattie’s reading of the line “It’s a fake!” has been ranked amongst the greatest moments in Star Trek and spawned an online meme.

In 2009, McHattie appeared in the Canadian IFC film Pontypool and in the Canadian thriller Summer's Blood as Gant Hoxey, alongside Twilight actress Ashley Greene, who portrays Summer. He co-starred with Felicia Day and Kavan Smith in the Gothic adaptation of Red Riding Hood, Red: Werewolf Hunter. In 2015, he appeared in the supernatural thriller Pay the Ghost.

Filmography

Film

Television

Partial stage credits