American actor, born in 1976, who plays San, Philippa Georgiou's lost love and the masked antagonist of the 2025 film Star Trek: Section 31.
James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor born in 1976. His credits include Roland Glenn in Prison Break, Jay Lee in Unforgettable and Albert Nguyen in Barry. His first Star Trek part was a small one, as a bridge officer of the USS Vengeance in Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013.
In Star Trek: Section 31, released in January 2025, he plays San. Flashbacks to the Mirror Universe show the young San and Georgiou as rivals for the Terran throne who loved one another. Georgiou won and enslaved him.
San is believed long dead, but he proves to be the masked figure pursuing the Godsend, a weapon Georgiou once commissioned, which he means to use to open the way for a Terran invasion.