New Zealand actor, born in 1947, who played Hiren, the Romulan Praetor murdered with the entire Senate in the opening scene of Star Trek Nemesis.
Alan Dale is a New Zealand actor who became famous as Jim Robinson in the Australian serial Neighbours and later built a busy American career in The O.C., Ugly Betty, Lost and Once Upon a Time.
In Star Trek Nemesis (2002) he played Praetor Hiren, head of the Romulan government. In the film's first scene he rejects the proposal by Commanders Suran and Donatra for an alliance with Shinzon and the Remans.
Senator Tal'aura then excuses herself, leaving behind a small device that floods the chamber with thalaron radiation. Hiren and the assembled senators are turned to stone-like ash where they sit, clearing the way for Shinzon's coup.