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Mike Nyman (born 20 April 1965; age 58) is an actor who played a Kazon-Ogla in the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Caretaker" and later the Kazon-Nistrim Medic in the second season episode "Maneuvers". As a background actor he received no credit for his appearances but was identified by the call sheets for the episodes.
After Nyman worked as a stripper in Portland, Oregon in his early twenties he turned into acting and studied under Jeff Conaway, Doug Warhit, and Lonnie Schuyler.
Among his acting work as supporting and featured parts in the horror thriller The Divine Enforcer (1992), the action film Shadow of the Dragon (1992, with Buddy Daniels Friedman), the science fiction sequel Frogtown II (1992, with Charles Napier), the action film Road to Revenge (1993), the drama Desert Passion (1993, with Scott McElroy), the crime thriller Skins (1994), Bryan Singer's crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995, with Jack Shearer, Castulo Guerra, Johnny Martin, and Ralph Moratz), the television drama Full Body Massage (1995), the short film Hell's Paradox (1996), the short Western The Blue Hotel (1997), the drama Bottom Feeders (1997) for which he also worked as executive producer, the crime drama Blow (2001, with Miguel Perez, Tony Amendola, John Harrington Bland, Vanessa Grayson, Randy Mulkey, and Greg Bronson), the drama Journey of Redemption (2002), and the horror thriller Maniacal (2003).
He guest starred in episodes of Guilty or Innocent? (2005), LA Forensics (2006), North Mission Road (2006), 1000 Ways to Die (2009, with Ron Perlman), I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (2009), All My Children (2010), Customer Diss-Service (2011), FCU: Fact Checkers Unit (2011), Blood Relatives (2012 and 2014, with Brenda Strong), Outrageous 911 (2014), and Murder Among Friends (2016).
Further film work includes the thriller The Trap (2005), the comedy Camjackers (2006), the television special Fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2006, with Michael Bailey Smith), the short drama Subdivision (2006), the comedy Nothing But the Truth (2007), the horror film Awaken the Dead (2007), the television documentary Mysteries of the Universe (2008), the action film The Last Bad Neighborhood (2008), the horror thriller Beneath the Mississippi (2008) for which he also worked as casting director and associate producer, the horror film Live Evil (2009), the short thriller Breathe (2010, with Elizabeth Goldstein), the short action film Runner (2011), the short drama Dead Snake (2011), the action film The Vanisher (2012), the horror comedy Paranormal Whacktivity (2013), the short comedy Inappropriate Jeff (2014), the short drama Shorty (2016), and the drama Reverse Heaven (2018, with Charles Dierkop and Jeff Rector).
External links[]
- MikeNyman.org – official site
- Mike Nyman at the Internet Movie Database