Saturday, October 28, 2006

Byron Mann

Byron Mann was born in Hong Kong, China, and is the youngest of three brothers in his family. Byron became very interested in sports, especially tennis and golf. He became a junior champion tennis player and at one point was top-ranked in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, Byron Mann attended the renowned Diocesan Boys' School, where he was active in high school and community theatre as both an actor and a writer. After high school, Byron moved to California to study philosophy at UCLA even though acting remained important to him. After college, Byron moved back to Hong Kong for law school, but also received an acting role in the movie Last Flight Out. Finally, he returned to Los Angeles, California, passed the California bar, became a lawyer, and studied acting on the side in his free time.
His birth name is Byron Chan.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Jonathan Del Arco


Jonathan Del Arco (born 7 March 1966 in Uruguay) is the actor who played Hugh, the Borg drone with a sense of individuality, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "I, Borg", "Descent, Part I" and "Descent, Part II". He later appeared as Fantome in the Voyager episode "The Void". He also supplied his voice for the video games Star Trek: Armada II and Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
His other television credits include stints on Sisters (starring fellow TNG guest star Ashley Judd), The Wonder Years (with Andy Milder and Olivia d'Abo), Nip/Tuck, Crossing Jordan (with Miguel Ferrer), American Dreams (with Ellen Geer and Glenn Morshower), 24 (with Jude Ciccolella, Gregory Itzin), and The Sopranos. Del Arco also appeared with Star Trek: Generations actor Malcolm McDowell in two episodes of the series Pearl and with Star Trek: The Original Series star George Takei on an episode of the short Grosse Point. In 2002, he and Scott Lawrence were guest stars for the pilot episode of First Monday, a short-lived series starring Camille Saviola and Gail Strickland. And in 2004, Del Arco appeared in two episodes of another short-lived series, The D.A., starring Steven Weber. One of the episodes also featured Tim Kelleher and Robert Pine.
Del Arco's only film credits thus far have been Lost Angels (1989), The Mambo Kings (1992), and True Rights (2000).

To those beautiful men

I am a dreamer.
I thank the Goddess for giving me the ability to dream and also for her beautiful gift: these men I like, love, adore, hate, dream of.
They will never be part of my life, but thank you for existing anyway.