American actor who played Neelix, Voyager's Talaxian cook, guide and morale officer, and appeared in several other Star Trek roles.
Ethan Phillips is an American actor, born in 1955, who first became familiar to television audiences as press aide Pete Downey on Benson. His Star Trek career began in 1990 as the Ferengi doctor Farek in The Next Generation episode Menage a Troi.
From 1995 to 2001 Phillips played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. A Talaxian scavenger who joined the crew in Caretaker, Neelix served as the ship's cook, local guide and self-appointed morale officer, and the role combined comic warmth with the grief of a survivor whose family had been killed in war. In the final season Neelix left the ship to live among a community of his own people.
Phillips also made a cameo as a holographic nightclub maitre d' in Star Trek: First Contact and played a Ferengi pirate in the Enterprise episode Acquisition. His film work includes Critters and Inside Llewyn Davis.