Born: October 27, 1953

Yale alumnus Robert Picardo made his off-Broadway debut in David Mamet's one-act play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. That was in 1975; two years later, Picardo was first seen on Broadway in Gemini. He launched his TV career in the 1980 miniseries The_Dream_Merchants, and in 1981 made his first film, The_Howling--one of several assignments for director Joe_Dante. During his early TV years, he was all too often cast in "first husband" or "wrong boyfriend" supporting roles. Things improved in 1986, when he was hired to play the much-feared high school gym teacher Coach Cutlip in the weekly dramedy The_Wonder_Years. He went on to co-star as Dr. Dick Richard in the highly acclaimed Vietnam-era series China_Beach (1989-91). A busy voiceover artist, Picardo has supplied a variety of vocal characterizations for such series as Dinosaurs and Batman. Undoubtedly you'll be reading even more about Robert Picardo in the future, by virtue of his being cast as the holographic Doc Zimmerman on TV's Star_Trek:_Voyager(1995- ). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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