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Kelly Connell (born 9 June 1956; age 67) is the actor who played Sklar in the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Rise".

He is perhaps best known for his recurring (and later regular) role as Dr. Carter Pike on CBS' Picket Fences. He also starred as Ulysses S. Grant on UPN's The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.

Connell has also made guest appearances on such shows as Night Court (starring John Larroquette and also working with Nikki Cox and Bruce French), Murphy Brown, Wings (starring Steven Weber), Party of Five (with Ellen Bry), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with Armin Shimerman), cross-over episodes of The Practice and Ally McBeal (both with Daniel Dae Kim and Donna Murphy), and Sliders (starring Jerry O'Connell). Additionally, he had recurring roles on Chicago Hope and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and was seen as an attorney in two episodes of Boston Legal, starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois. Others he worked with on the latter program included Joanna Cassidy, Megan Gallagher, Ken Land, Jennifer S. Parsons, and Joel Polis.

He also had roles in a number of films, the first being Cocktail (1988, with Laurence Luckinbill). He has since had roles in Hot Shots! (1991), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Thirteen Days (2000, co-starring Len Cariou, Kevin Conway, Steven Culp, Charles Esten, Bruce Greenwood, Boris Krutonog, Ed Lauter, Tim Kelleher, Dakin Matthews, and Bill Smitrovich) K-PAX (2001, with William Lucking and Alfre Woodard), and Spider-Man 2 (2004, starring Kirsten Dunst).

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