Leonard Nimoy Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Director , Screenwriter more
Birth name Leonard Simon Nimoy
Nationality American
Birth March 26, 1931 (Boston, Massachusetts – United States)
Death March 1, 2015
BIOGRAPHY
It was from a very young age that Leonard Nimoy became passionate about acting. He was barely eight years old when he performed in the theater. At 20, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood. Because of his physique, he was recruited to play villain roles in fantasy series and stories like Beyond Reality or The Fourth Dimension . In 1966, Gene Roddenberry asked him to join the cast of a science fiction series: Star Trek . For three years, he played Mr. Spock, the half-man, half-Vulcan scientist. In 1969, the series was stopped due to lack of audience. For Leonard Nimoy, who has since become a national celebrity, it is an opportunity to play new characters. He even decides to move away from the character who made him famous by publishing a book, “I am not Spock” .

He joined the cast of Mission: Impossible before the success of Star Trek reruns pushed producers to revive the series. In 1973, he reunited with the entire cast to dub the animated series. However, it would take 6 years for the film project to come to fruition: Star Trek: The Movie, directed by Robert Wise , was released on screens in 1979. Although the film was a commercial success, he decided not to return in the sequel. construction site, disappointed by the shooting conditions and the quality of the film. The screenwriter and director of the second film, Nicholas Meyer , will then resort to a ruse: he offers him to star in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and in exchange he promises to kill Spock at the end of the film. Caught in the game, Nimoy later regrets this decision, and agrees to resurrect Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . In addition, on this third film, he became director, a position he also held on the fourth part.

He resumes his role until the sixth film but refuses to appear in the seventh part which links the crews of the original series and that of the New Generation . He directed a few comedies, such as Three Men and a Baby (1987) or The Price of Passion (1988), but was becoming increasingly rare in the cinema. However, he does not remain idle since he publishes several collections of photography and even releases an album in collaboration with William ‘Captain Kirk’ Shatner . He is also involved in fan conventions where he appears regularly. In 2002 he reunited with the other members of the Enterprise ship for an episode of Futurama dedicated to the Star Trek universe.. He participates in the dubbing of numerous animated films such as Atlantis, the Lost Empire (2001) and Sinbad – the Legend of the Seven Seas (2002). In 2009 he did a voice in the film The (Almost) Lost World by Brad Silberling with Will Ferrell . The same year he found Spock’s pointy ears in the eleventh Star Trek film directed by JJ Abrams , with whom he also collaborated on the Fringe series . He then announced his retirement from acting.