American character actor, known for Breaking Away and Sixteen Candles, who played Enabran Tain, former head of the Obsidian Order and Garak's mentor, in four Deep Space Nine episodes.
Paul Dooley is an American character actor and writer, familiar as the father in the films Breaking Away and Sixteen Candles and from several films directed by Robert Altman.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine he plays the recurring role of Enabran Tain, the retired head of the Cardassian Obsidian Order. He first appears in the second-season episode The Wire, when Bashir seeks his help to save Garak. In the third-season two-part story Improbable Cause and The Die Is Cast, Tain returns to lead a joint fleet with the Tal Shiar against the Founders, which ends in disaster.
His final appearance is in the fifth-season episode In Purgatory's Shadow, in which the dying Tain, a Dominion prisoner, acknowledges Garak as his son.