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My Take
Jeffrey Combs is exactly the kind of actor I admire most: the chameleon you recognize instantly yet can never quite pin down. Re-Animator made him a horror icon as Herbert West, but it's his Star Trek work that genuinely impresses me. Playing Brunt, multiple Weyouns on Deep Space Nine, and then Shran on Enterprise is a quiet acting flex most people never notice. He builds wholly different humans inside heavy prosthetics, which is harder than it looks. I think of him as a character actor's character actor, the sort fans treasure precisely because Hollywood never crowned him a leading man.
Overview
Jeffrey Alan Combs (born September 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Herbert West in the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Re-Animator (1985) and portraying a number of characters in the Star Trek universe, most notably Brunt and the various Weyouns on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994–1999), and Shran on Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jeffrey Combs
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェフリー・コムズ
- Reading
- じぇふりー・こむず
- Born
- September 9, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Horse
- Origin
- Oxnard, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / television actor / stage actor / voice actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Washington
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.