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Noél De Souza (born 27 December 1925; age 98) is the actor who played Mahatma Gandhi in the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Darkling".

Some of De Souza's earliest television credits include a 1958 episode of Zorro titled "Zorro Fights His Father", with Peter Brocco, a 1959 episode of Adventures in Paradise called "The Derelict", also guest-starring Ricardo Montalban, and both De Souza and George Takei had uncredited roles in the 1959 war drama Never So Few, which featured Whit Bissell and John Hoyt.

His work in the sixties included a 1963 episode of The Eleventh Hour with Richard Kiley and Malachi Throne; a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits with Henry Darrow and Willard Sage. He appeared in two episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Yellow Scarf Affair" (1965; with Willard Sage) and "The Moonglow Affair" (1966; with Dallas Mitchell, Byron Morrow, and Bill Quinn). De Souza also appeared uncredited along with Victor Tayback in the comedy Gambit (1966; starring Roger C. Carmel). He guest starred in two episodes of Mission: Impossible while Leonard Nimoy was a regular on that series, including the episode "The Brothers" (1969; with Lee Bergere, Lee Duncan, and Joseph Ruskin).

During the seventies he had roles in the episodes of Bracken's World (1970, with Monte Markham and Madlyn Rhue), the film Bad Charleston Charlie (1973, with Ken Lynch), and an appearance in an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974, starring John Fiedler). In 1977, De Souza co-starred with John de Lancie, Persis Khambatta, and Jason Wingreen in the science fiction television movie The Man with the Power. He went on to work with Persis Khambatta again in the 1988 direct-to-video thriller Deadly Intent, co-starring Clayton Rohner.

In the eighties, he appeared in Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982, with Harvey Jason and Eric Server), My Wicked, Wicked Ways… The Legend of Errol Flynn, a 1985 television movie starring Duncan Regehr and Denise Crosby, and the same year, appeared on The Man with One Red Show (1985, with Gerrit Graham, David L. Lander and David Ogden Stiers). He further appeared in Wildcats (1986, with Bruce McGill and Bruce French), Deadly Care (1987, with Paddi Edwards), the horror thriller B.O.R.N. (1988, with Clint Howard and Debra Lamb Bailleaux), and an episode of Tour of Duty (1989, starring Dan Gauthier and Patrick Kilpatrick).

Prior to his appearance on Voyager, during the nineties, he appeared on the television drama Unabomber: The True Story (1996, with Dean Stockwell, Bill Mondy, and Kevin Rahm).

Following his appearance on Voyager, De Souza had supporting roles in the comedy Wedding Crashers (2005, with Ellen Albertini Dow, Ron Canada, Henry Gibson, Diora Baird, Irene Roseen, and Richard Riehle), the short film Indian Gangster (2009), the drama Somewhere (2010, with David Jean Thomas), the short film Flawless (2011), and episodes of Futurestates (2010) and The Big Bang Theory (2015).

De Souza, who moved to the United States in 1955, worked as an actor and journalist for over six decades. [1] De Souza still acts occasionally, and also works as writer, mainly articles for supplements published by the Times Group and the online magazine "The Label". In 2016, he was nominated for an ICG Publicist Media Award. [2]

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