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Jim Lau (born 11 April 1952; age 71) is an actor and voice artist who portrayed Tommy in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "The Expanse". His scene was removed from the completed episode due to the fact that the episode was ten minutes too long. It was later included in the ENT Season 2 DVD.

Lau started his acting career in the early '80s and has since appeared in dozens of television series including M*A*S*H (1983, with David Ogden Stiers and Rosalind Chao), St. Elsewhere (1985, with Norman Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., and Chad Allen, Falcon Crest (1985, with Robert Foxworth, Jonathan Frakes, and Kate Vernon), Remington Steele (1985, with Victor Rivers), Hunter (1985, with Clyde Kusatsu and Bruce Davison), The Fall Guy (1986, with Phil Chong and Clyde Kusatsu), seaQuest DSV (1994, with Rosalind Allen, Sherman Howard, and Marco Sanchez), The Simpsons (1996), The Nanny (1998, with Daniel Davis), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1999), Spawn (1997-1999), Diagnosis: Murder (1999, with Joanna Cassidy, Mark Daniel Cade, and Nicole Forester), Boston Public (2003, with Jeri Ryan, Tania Gunadi, and Stephen Macht), Firefly (2003, with Ron Glass and Melinda Clarke), Monk (2004, with Jim Beaver and Michael Ensign), House (2005, with Jennifer Morrison and Andy Milder), Six Feet Under (2005, with James Cromwell and Ed Begley, Jr.), Everybody Loves Raymond (2006-2008), My Name Is Earl (2008), and Boston Legal (2005 and 2008, alongside William Shatner, René Auberjonois, Richard Riehle, Kristin Bauer, John Larroquette, Jack Shearer, James W. Jansen, Steven Anderson, and John Thaddeus).

His film resume includes supporting and featured roles in Uphill All the Way (1986, with Frank Gorshin), Big Trouble in Little China (1986, with Kim Cattrall), The Second Civil War (1997, with Joanna Cassidy, Ron Perlman, Dick Miller, and Robert Picardo), the television movie The Westing Game (1997, with Cliff DeYoung), American Tragedy (2000, with Clyde Kusatsu, Christopher Plummer, and Richard Cox), The Third Wheel (2002), Flight of the Phoenix (2004), and Burning Palms (2009, with Zoe Saldana, Tom Wright, Jason Brooks, and Michelle Lenhardt).

In addition, Lau has worked on several television series and feature films as ADR voice, such as Millennium, Dark Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Gremlins, Godzilla, Rush Hour, Rush Hour II, The Terminal, Constantine, Crank, Mission Impossible III, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Tropic Thunder, and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

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