Actors Journal – Tucker Smallwood

After serving in Vietnam, Tucker Smallwood moved to New York to study acting. He began at the Neighborhood Playhouse (thanks to the G.I. Bill). Sixteen months later, he was cast as a continuing character in the NBC soap opera Somerset. During the next several years, he starred in six productions, along other roles on Broadway and in regional theater productions. Additionally, he filmed more than 100 television commercials and PSAs. In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and began his work in prime time television. After several years of guest-starring roles on dramas and sit-coms, he chanced into the universe of science fiction and enjoyed considerable success on such series as SPACE: Above and Beyond, The X-Files and Babylon 5, as well as in the films CONTACT and DEEP IMPACT. Theatrically, he performed in several productions for the Mark Taper, Cast Theater and Odyssey Theater. He is well-known as the Xindi Primate Diplomat on Star Trek: Enterprise.