James Frain (born 14 March 1968; age 57) is an actor who played Sarek in the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, as well as the mirror universe Sarek in the first season episode "The Wolf Inside".
He is married to director Marta Cunningham, who directed him in the episode "Light and Shadows". (TRR: "Light and Shadows")
The costume he wore in "The Vulcan Hello" was sold off on the Prop Store Star Trek: Discovery online auction in September 2021. [1]
Frain came up in the British television and film circuit but was not exposed to American audiences until he was cast in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996, starring Alan Rickman and David Warner). Frain then made his American television debut in an episode of Tales From the Crypt called "Report from the Grave", starring John Kassir. He also appeared in series like 24, Invasion, The Tudors, True Blood, and The Cape. In 2006, he guest-starred on The Closer, which starred Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Raymond Cruz.
He played Theo Galavan in Gotham, which also featured Jeffrey Combs and Alexander Siddig.
He played the sadistic Ferdinand Chevalier on Space/BBC America's Orphan Black, which starred Tatiana Maslany, and included other Star Trek alumni like Matt Frewer, Michelle Forbes, and Stephen McHattie in the cast. In 2019, Frain played German-English billionaire Odin Reichenbach on CBS' Elementary, created by Robert Doherty.
Star Trek appearances[]
- DIS:
- "The Vulcan Hello"
- "Battle at the Binary Stars"
- "Lethe"
- "The Wolf Inside" (as mirror universe Sarek)
- "The War Without, The War Within"
- "Will You Take My Hand?"
- "Brother"
- "Light and Shadows"
- "Perpetual Infinity" (archive footage)
- "Such Sweet Sorrow"
Other appearances[]
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