Template:Realworld Template:2009spoiler Oz Perkins (born 2 February 1974; age 50) is the American actor who plays a communications officer on the USS Enterprise in 2009's Star Trek. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (best known for playing Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho) and photographer Berry Berenson.
Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Robert Perkins II in New York City. He is a graduate of Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake School and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from New York University. His father died from complications of AIDS on 12 September 1992; his mother was killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001.
He made his film debut playing the younger version of his father's character, Norman Bates, in 1983's Psycho II. His next film was the 1993 drama Six Degrees of Separation, which also featured Bruce Davison. He also appeared in the 1994 horror film Wolf, which starred Christopher Plummer.
Perhaps Perkins' best-known film role is that of "Dorky David" in the hit 2001 comedy Legally Blonde. Michael Buchman Silver also appeared in his film. That same year, Perkins was seen in the spoof film, Not Another Teen Movie, along with Ed Lauter, Michael Ensign, and James Read.
Perkins had a supporting role in the sadomasochism-themed romantic comedy Secretary, as did Stephen McHattie. He then worked with Diedrich Bader, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Gina Philips in the horror comedy Dead & Breakfast.
Perkins first worked with Star Trek producer and director J.J. Abrams in 2005 when Perkins appeared on Abrams' television series Alias as a man in Coke-bottle glasses. Perkins also guest-starred in an episode of Close to Home, in which he and Barbara Tarbuck played son and mother. John Carroll Lynch was a regular on this series at the time.
External links
- Oz Perkins at Wikipedia
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