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J. Patrick McCormack (born 15 January) is an actor who has made three appearances in three Star Trek productions.

McCormack has been acting since the early 1990s. His first film role was in the 1992 Tom Selleck comedy Folks!.

However it was not until 1994 that McCormack appeared in a production with Trek actors, the biopic Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography. Joining McCormack were fellow Star Trek: Voyager guest star David Graf and Star Trek: The Next Generation guest performers Joycelyn O'Brien and Jandi Swanson. That same year, McCormack starred in The Puppet Masters alongside Sam Anderson, Todd Bryant, Nicholas Cascone, Andrew Robinson and Michael Shamus Wiles. McCormack concluded the year in the horror film Witch Hunt with Clifton Collins, Jr., Christopher Darga and John Durbin.

In the latter half of the decade, McCormack appeared in Female Perversions (1996, with Clancy Brown, Azalea Davila, and Abdul Salaam El Razzac), The Sleepwalker Killing (1997, with Sam Anderson, Charles Esten, Julianna McCarthy, Natalia Nogulich, Jeffrey Nordling and Joel Polis), Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997, with Michelle Phillips and Jeremy Roberts), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, with Ian Abercrombie and Robin Sachs), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997, with Bob Gunton, Anne Haney, Voyager star Richard Herd and Leon Rippy), Wag The Dog (1997, with John Cho, Kirsten Dunst, Anthony Holiday, Suzie Plakson and Rick Scarry), and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998, with Robin Gammell, Bruce Gray and Steven Weber.

In 1997, McCormack appeared in an episode of Babylon 5, working alongside with Star Trek alumni Carolyn Seymour. He would reprise the role of General Lefcourt, then a Brigadier-General, in Babylon 5: In the Beginning the following year.

McCormack appeared in Armageddon (1998, co-written by J.J. Abrams and featuring Jeff Austin, Brian Brophy, Jim Fitzpatrick, Googy Gress, Anthony Guidera, John Mahon, Marshall R. Teague, Jason Isaacs and Lawrence Tierney.

McCormack was then in The Parent Trap (1998, with David Doty), Winchell (1998, with Peggy Miley, Christopher Plummer, Rick Scarry, Jack Shearer, Kevin Tighe and James Wellington), and Diplomatic Siege (1999, with Peter Weller).

In the new millennium, McCormack acted in Crash Point Zero (2000, with John Beck, John Putch, Richard Riehle and Jack Shearer), Getting Away With Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Story (2000, with Cliff DeYoung, Brad Greenquist, Albert Hall, Holmes R. Osborne, Margot Rose, Robert Symonds and Gwynyth Walsh), Murder She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000, with Steven Culp, Daniel Dae Kim and Duncan Regehr), Hollow Man (2000, with Margot Rose, and also worked with Jimmie F. Skaggs, and Firetrap, (2000, with Benjamin W.S. Lum and Lori Petty).

McCormack then starred in Van Wilder (2002, with Gregg Daniel and Megan Gallagher), Catch Me If You Can (2002, withJessica Collins, Thomas Kopache, Ray Proscia, Jimmie Skaggs, Robert Symonds and Malachi Throne), and Deadly Swarm (2003, with Granville Ames). McCormack later appeared in Grand Union (2006, with Kurtwood Smith) and Zodiac (2007, with Zach Grenier, Thomas Kopache, John Carroll Lynch, John Mahon and David Lee Smith).

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