Ethan Phillips

For me, Ethan Phillips is a great example of an actor whose face you know long before you know his name. As Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager he spent six years under heavy makeup, which I find admirable — that's commitment most people never see. Before that he'd already logged years as Pete Downey on Benson, so he was a working television actor decades deep. What I like is the spread: Critters horror, then later Inside Llewyn Davis and Irrational Man for the Coen brothers and Woody Allen. A Boston University grad who also writes plays, he reads to me as a true craftsman rather than a star.

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Name (English)

Ethan Phillips

Name (Japanese)

イーサン・フィリップス

Reading

いーさん・ふぃりっぷす

Born

February 8, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Garden City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / playwright / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

University

Boston University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan%20Phillips
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435475

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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