American character actor, known as Deep Throat in The X-Files, who played Radue of Aldea and Samuel Clemens in The Next Generation and Dr. Neria in Voyager.
Jerry Hardin is an American character actor with a long list of film and television credits, the best known being the informant called Deep Throat in the first season of The X-Files.
He first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the first-season episode When the Bough Breaks, as Radue, leader of the sterile Aldeans who take children from the Enterprise. He returned for the two-part Time's Arrow, which closed the fifth season and opened the sixth, playing the writer Samuel Clemens, who grows suspicious of Data in 1893 San Francisco and ends up visiting the twenty-fourth century.
In Star Trek: Voyager he plays Dr. Neria, a Vhnori thanatologist, in the first-season episode Emanations.