American stage and film actor, born in 1938 and a multiple Tony winner, who played the scheming Bajoran minister Jaro Essa, without screen credit, in three Deep Space Nine episodes.
Frank Langella is an American actor, born in 1938, who has won several Tony Awards and received an Academy Award nomination for playing Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. His earlier films include Dracula and Dave.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine he appears in the three-part story that opens the second season in 1993: The Homecoming, The Circle and The Siege. He plays Jaro Essa, a minister in the Bajoran provisional government who is secretly the leader of the Circle, an extremist movement working to drive the Federation from Bajor and seize power with the help of Vedek Winn.
Langella took the part without billing, and his name does not appear in the credits of any of the three episodes.