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Michael Dorn

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American actor

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Michael Dorn is an American actor, television actor, film actor, and film director. Born on December 9, 1952, in Luling, Texas, he is a male of African American ethnicity who speaks English. He received his education at Pasadena City College and began his professional work period in 1976. Dorn stands at a height of 1.90 meters.

As an author, Dorn has fourteen listed works, including *Extreme Violence*, *Housing element, city of Gilroy*, *Alkoholkriminalität - insbesondere Verkehrsdelikte- in Stuttgart aus statistischer Sicht*, *Steelworks*, and *Weakfish - Bullying Through the Eyes of a Child*. Crossref records five of his works. Additionally, a separate artist entry under the name Michael Dorn is associated with the black metal and doom metal genres in Germany.

Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Works
14

Top works

  • Extreme Violence
  • Housing element, city of Gilroy
  • Alkoholkriminalität - insbesondere Verkehrsdelikte- in Stuttgart aus statistischer Sicht
  • Steelworks
  • Weakfish - Bullying Through the Eyes of a Child

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Film & TV

Luling - Texas - USA

Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American actor and voice artist who is best known for his role as the Klingon Worf from the Star Trek franchise. Dorn was born in Luling, Texas, the son of Allie Lee (née Nauls) and Fentress Dorn, Jr. He grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied radio and television production at the Pasadena City College. From there he pursued a career in music as a…

Known for

  • Armorsaurs — Karter Klay2025
  • Butterfly in the Sky — Self (archive footage)2024
  • The D-Con Chamber — Self2024
  • Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event — Captain Worf2023
  • Glowzies — General Thomson2023
  • Krapopolis — Babak (voice)2023
  • The Shuttlepod Show — Self2022
  • Agent Revelation — Alastair2021
  • Woman in Motion — Self2021
  • Dogs in Space — Pistachio Soup (voice)2021

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Key facts

Born
( 1952-12-09 ) December 9, 1952 (age 73) , Luling, Texas , U.S.
Alma mater
Pasadena City College
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1976–present
Spouse
Jennifer Joseph (m. 2007)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Michiel
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Luling
Occupation
screenwriter
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
Michael Dorn (53939174085).jpg
Height
1.90
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Commons category
Michael Dorn
date of birth
1952-12-09
start of work period
1976-00-00
social media followers
326319
writing language
English language
ethnic group
African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview

Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American actor best known for his role as the Klingon character Worf in the Star Trek franchise, appearing in all seven seasons of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), and later reprising the role in seasons four through seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995–1999) and season three of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Dorn has appeared more times as a regular cast member than any other Star Trek actor in the franchise's history, spanning five films and 284 television episodes.

Outside of the Star Trek franchise, Dorn has appeared in the television series CHiPs (1979–1982), and has had voice roles as Coldstone and Taurus in the animated series Gargoyles (1994–1997), Kalibak in the DC Animated Universe, the eponymous protagonist of I Am Weasel (1997–2000), Mata Nui in Bionicle media, Lord Darkar in the Nickelodeon dub of Winx Club (2011), Castle (2009–2016) as a psychotherapist, Captain Mozar in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015–2016) and Battle Beast in Invincible (2021–present).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Dorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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