American character actor, known for Capote and Westworld, who played Ayel, the Romulan first officer of Nero's mining ship Narada, in the 2009 Star Trek film.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American actor, born in 1970, whose credits include Traffic, Capote, in which he played the killer Perry Smith, Pacific Rim and the television series Westworld.
In Star Trek (2009) he plays Ayel, the tattooed Romulan who serves as Nero's second in command aboard the Narada. Ayel conducts the interrogation of Captain Robau at the start of the film and, twenty-five years later, fights James T. Kirk hand to hand on the Narada during the attempt to rescue Captain Pike. He is shot by Kirk with his own disruptor.
Collins played the part under extensive facial tattoo make-up, one of many heavily transformed character roles in a career spanning three decades.