American character actor, known for Bloodline and Sons of Anarchy, who played Zhaban, the former Tal Shiar agent living at Château Picard, in the first season of Star Trek: Picard.
Jamie McShane is an American actor with a long list of television credits, among them Sons of Anarchy, Southland, Bloodline, in which he played Eric O'Bannon, Bosch and Wednesday.
In the first season of Star Trek: Picard he plays Zhaban, a Romulan refugee who works with his wife Laris as housekeeper and vintner on Jean-Luc Picard's estate in France. Both are former operatives of the Tal Shiar who owe their lives to Picard's rescue effort.
Zhaban appears in Remembrance, Maps and Legends and The End Is the Beginning, cooking, fussing over Picard's health and helping to fight off a Zhat Vash assassination squad in the château. By the second season the character has died, leaving Laris a widow.