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Matt Winston (born 3 February 1970; age 54) is the actor who played temporal agent Daniels in eight episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Winston is the son of the late special effects wizards and Digital Domain co-founder Stan Winston. He was born in Los Angeles, California, where he currently lives with his wife, Meg Johns Winston, their two children – a son and a daughter – in north Branford Connecticut and "their one dog".

Television work[]

Winston made his television debut in an episode of Married with Children in 1993. He later became a regular on Fame L.A., in which he worked alongside Andy Milder. His subsequent television credits have included recurring roles as Jeremy Brenner on Arliss, Dr. Jeffrey Steadman on Scrubs (starring Ken Jenkins) and as Terry on Six Feet Under, co-starring James Cromwell.

He has made guest appearances on such shows as That '70s Show (starring Kurtwood Smith and Don Stark), NYPD Blue (starring Gordon Clapp, in an episode with Kenneth Tigar), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (starring Paul Guilfoyle), Monk (with Stanley Kamel and Michelle Krusiec), Without a Trace (starring Enrique Murciano), Las Vegas (starring Nikki Cox), Charmed (with John de Lancie and Joel Swetow), 7th Heaven (starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks, with Charles Emmett), Bones (with Mark Harelik), and other hit series like Friends, Grey's Anatomy, and Medium (starring Jake Weber). He also appeared with Paul Sorvino and Robert Picardo in the 2000 HBO movie The Amati Girls.

In 2006, Winston was a regular on NBC's Teachers. The following year, he was a regular on John from Cincinnati, on which he portrayed Barry Cunningham. His co-stars on this series included Jim Beaver, Willie Garson, and Bruce Greenwood. Winston has since guest-starred on such television series as Worst Week (starring Kurtwood Smith), Chuck, The Mentalist, Castle (directed by Rob Bowman), Pushing Daisies (with Robert Picardo and Fred Williamson), Criminal Minds, Boston Legal (starring John Larroquette and William Shatner), Desperate Housewives (starring Teri Hatcher, Vanessa Williams and Brenda Strong, with Scott Bakula and Molly Hagan), and Raising Hope.

Film work[]

Winston appeared in Galaxy Quest (1999, with Robin Sachs and Heidi Swedberg) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, with Haley Joel Osment, Paula Malcomson, April Grace, John Prosky, Tim Rigby, Michael Shamus Wiles, James W. Jansen, Eliza Coleman, Miguel Perez, and Matt Malloy). Both of these films featured effects work by Winston's father.

In addition, Winston had roles in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994, with Tracy Middendorf, Rob LaBelle, and Fran Bennett), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Paramount Pictures' Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001, with Enterprise co-star John Billingsley. Winston also had a role in The Core (2003), along with Glenn Morshower, Alfre Woodard and John from Cincinatti co-star Bruce Greenwood.

Winston worked with director David Fincher on Fight Club (1999, with David Andrews, Tim de Zarn, and Zach Grenier), and Zodiac (2007, co-starring John Carroll Lynch, Zach Grenier and Thomas Kopache, with Brian Cox as Melvin Belli.)

His other film credits include The Peacemaker (1997, with Gary Werntz, Richard Poe, and Bruce Gray), About Schmidt (2002, with Harry Groener), Deliver Us from Eva (2003, with Gabrielle Union), and Kicking and Screaming (2005, with Musetta Vander, Rachael Harris, and Tom Virtue). More recently, Winston played the pageant MC in Little Miss Sunshine (2005). Winston also appeared in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007).

His more recent film credits include the 2015 fantasy thriller Fire City: End of Days and Harbinger Down (2015).

Star Trek appearances[]

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