American actor who played warp-drive pioneer Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact and Enterprise, after two earlier Next Generation guest roles.
James Cromwell, an American actor born in 1940, played Zefram Cochrane, the reluctant inventor of Earth's warp drive, in Star Trek: First Contact, and briefly reprised the role in the Enterprise pilot Broken Bow. Before that he made two guest appearances on The Next Generation, as the Angosian prime minister Nayrok in The Hunted and as the Yridian information dealer Jaglom Shrek in Birthright.
Cromwell earned an Academy Award nomination for Babe, and his other notable work includes L.A. Confidential, The Green Mile and Succession.