American actor who plays Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Anson Mount is an American actor best known for playing Cullen Bohannon in the AMC western Hell on Wheels and Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans.
He first played Christopher Pike in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, as the captain of the USS Enterprise who takes temporary command of Discovery. His warm, decisive portrayal, and Pike's glimpse of his own tragic future, led to the spin-off series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which began in 2022 with Mount in the lead.
On Strange New Worlds he plays Pike as a captain who leads with empathy while coming to terms with knowledge of his fate, steering the Enterprise through encounters with the Gorn and many new worlds, from the premiere Strange New Worlds through episodes such as A Quality of Mercy and beyond.