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Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Frakes was born on August 19, 1952, he is an actor, director and author. He is renowned for the Television series called Star Trek: The Next Generation, where he played the role of Commander William T. Riker. Jonathan, appeared as a host for the television series named Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. In the Disney television series Gargoyles, he provided his voice as an of David Xanatos.In 1996, he was nominated by the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for best supporting actor and Saturn Award for best director. Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection were the movie, which he directed and played. His novel named The Abductors: Conspiracy is very popular in the market.

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He was brought up in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, where he attended Bethlehem’s Liberty High School. He graduated in 1970. Jonathan, was awarded by the Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Theater from the Penn State University.

He went to new York city to pursue the acting career, where for the first time, he got the chance in Eugene O’Nell’s The Hairy ape, which was directed by George Ferencz. He subsequently had a role in Shenandoah. NBC soap opera The Doctors, where he played a role. Later, he again went to the Los Angeles, Califoria, when his role was cancelled in the Soap, Frakes, in Los angeles he received many opportunity to appear in numerious top television series, such as Eight is Enough, The Waltons, Matlock , Hill Street Blues and The Duke of Hazzard.

In a 1983 episode called Voyagers, he appeared as the character of Charles Lindbergh. At the same year, he as well did the NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence. In Falcon Crest, he appeared as the recurring cast and had role in 1986 miniseries named Dream West.

He provided his voice for the animated series Gargoyles, as well as in Futurama episode, called Where No Fan Has Gone Before. He succeeded to establish his name among four stars, who appeared regularly in Trek. The shows are Trek: The Deep Space Nine, star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Voyager. Not only this, he is a very talented director, the movies called Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: First Contact were directed by him. He is the producer for the series Roswell, where he made his presence as the executive producer. A television series at Fox called The Paranormal Boarderline, which was hosted by him. He appeared along with Frakes in the episode Don’t Tug on Superman’s cape.

Talking about his affair and dating, he started dating with a Genie Francis on 26 May 1985. She is no less popular than him, as she is also an actress. Later, he got married with her on 28 may 1988. The couple has a daughter named Elizabeth Francis.

Let’s know about some interesting fact about him. His full name at birth is Jonathan Scott Frakes and other name is Two-Takes Frakes. His age is 62. He has good height and it is about 6 feet and 4 inches, which is approximately 193 cm tall. His eye color is blue and hair color is Brown-Dark. Horoscope is Leo. His sexuality is straight, so he is not a gay. Religion called Anglican/Episopalian is his faith. He studied at Liberty High School, Bethlehem, PA in 1970. His university name is Pennsylvania State University. His claim of fame is StarTrek: The Next Generation. He associated with Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

He is an honest super star, particularly to his job, this is the reason that he earned handsome amount of net worth and it is about $ 12 million. His fan can follow him on twitter and Facebook and also enjoy his biography at wiki and bijog.com


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 19 Aug, 1952
Age: 67 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Bellefonte
Education: Harvard University
Pennsylvania State University
Gender: Male
Description: Actor, director
Twitter Id: Jonathansfrakes
Spouse: Genie Francis
Net Worth 2021: 25 million
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Last Modified: Jun 26 2020
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