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Matthew "Matt" Kaminsky (born 8 June 1971; age 52) is an American actor from New York who portrayed Cunningham in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episodes "Singularity" and "The Crossing" and a Security Guard in the Star Trek: Picard second season episode "Assimilation".
Although he has appeared on several other television series – including two episodes of 7th Heaven, starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks, and an episode of Picket Fences, starring Ray Walston – Kaminsky is primarily a voice actor. He can be heard as the voice of the title character of Max Steel (on which Keith Szarabajka also provided his voice) and as the announcer in the commercials for T-Mobile. In addition, he has lent his voice to such video games as Return to Castle Wolfenstein (with Tony Jay and Charles Napier), EverQuest II (with Larry Cedar, Alan Dale, Charles Dennis, James Horan, John Kassir, Michael Keenan, Daniel Riordan, Raphael Sbarge, Dwight Schultz, and Wil Wheaton), and Psychonauts (with Dwight Schultz and Armin Shimerman
Kaminsky also co-starred with Terri Garr and Bert Remsen in the 2000 film The Sky Is Falling; Kaminsky had previously worked with Garr in the 1990 TV movie A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder. In addition, both Kaminsky and his Enterprise co-star Connor Trinneer appeared in 61*. Fellow Star Trek actors Bruce McGill, Christopher McDonald, Bob Gunton, Seymour Cassel, and Charles Esten also had roles in this movie.
In 2006 Kaminsky made an appearance in the pilot episode for the short-lived series The Nine, starring Enterprise star John Billingsley. He then appeared in an episode of Shark, starring Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan. In 2007 Kaminsky appeared in a third season episode of Boston Legal, starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois, with fellow Enterprise guest actor Zach Grenier.
Other Trek connections[]
- Sweet Justice episode "One Good Woman" (1994) with Ronny Cox
- Touched by an Angel (1995) with Bumper Robinson
- L.A. Firefighters episode "The Match" (1996) with Tony Plana
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (1996) with Mary Crosby, Deborah Lacey, and Julie Parrish
- Friends episode "The One with the Cat" (1997) with Dan Gauthier
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction episode "Tribal Curse" (1998) hosted by Jonathan Frakes
- Diagnosis: Murder (1998) with Daniel Riordan
- Chicago Hope (1999) with Pat Healy
- Veronica's Closet episode "Veronica's Girls' Night Out" (2000) with Kirstie Alley
- Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) episode "Diversity" (2002) with Ed Begley, Jr.
- Charmed (2002) with Nicholas Cascone, Aaron Lustig, and Carel Struycken
- Without a Trace (2002) with Erich Anderson and Enrique Murciano
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002) with James MacDonald, Gina Philips, Eric Ritter and Michael Welch
- 24 (2004) with Penny Johnson and Tony Todd
- The District episode "Family Values" (2004) with Roger Aaron Brown
- Las Vegas episode "Blood Is Thicker" (2004) with Nikki Cox and Frank Novak
- NCIS (2005) with Michelle Krusiec
- Commander in Chief episode "The Mom Who Came to Dinner" (2005) with Samantha Eggar and David Gautreaux