English actor who played Maurice Picard, the father of Jean-Luc Picard, in the second season of Star Trek: Picard, first disguised as a Starfleet psychologist inside Picard's mind.
James Callis is an English actor best known to science fiction audiences for a leading role in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
He joined Star Trek: Picard in its second season. In Monsters, the comatose Picard imagines an evaluation by a probing Starfleet counsellor, played by Callis, who is finally unmasked as his father Maurice. The character had been seen once before, played by Clive Church, in the Next Generation episode Tapestry.
Callis returns in Hide and Seek, where further memories overturn Picard's childhood view of Maurice as a tyrant: he had locked his ill wife in her room in an attempt to protect her.