 John de Lancie John de Lancie, whose portrayal of the mercurial character "Q" in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® has made him internationally (if not inter-galactically) famous, was not always "an omnipotent being descended from the Q Continuum." In fact, he comes from Philadelphia.
Mr. de Lancie has appeared in numerous television shows, including HILL STREET BLUES, WEST WING, SHARK, WITHOUT A TRACE, SPORTS NIGHT, JUDGING AMY, THE CLOSER, STAR TREK, LEGEND, LA LAW, PICKET FENCES, CIVIL WARS, THE PRACTICE and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. His feature film roles include THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE FISHER KING, THE ONION FIELD and soon to be released PATHOLOGY AND TEENIUS.
He has been a member of The American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, The South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum and the Old Globe where he recently performed Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues. In the world of music, Mr. de Lancie has performed with a number of orchestras including: Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis and the New York Philharmonic, Esa Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Montreal Symphony. Mr. de Lancie has performed or directed numerous plays for L.A. Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW, KPCC and National Public Radio where the series, The Plays the Thing, originates. He recently returned from a national tour of the Scopes Monkey Trial with Ed Asner where he played Clarence Darrow. Mr. de Lancie was co-owner,with Leonard Nimoy, of "Alien Voices," a production company devoted to the dramatization of classic science fiction. Mr. de Lancie produced, co-wrote and directed dramatizations of: THE TIME MACHINE, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE LOST WORLD, THE INVISIBLE MAN and FIRST MEN IN THE MOON; as well as three television specials for the Sci-Fi Channel. Mr. de Lancie is a graduate of Kent State University and The Juilliard School and when all is said and done would rather be sailing. |
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