American actor, born in 1938 and known for West Side Story and Twin Peaks, who played the reluctant Bajoran resistance legend Li Nalas at the start of Deep Space Nine's second season.
Richard Beymer is an American actor and film-maker, born in 1938, who played Tony in the 1961 film West Side Story and Benjamin Horne in Twin Peaks.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine he appears in the three-part story that opens the second season in 1993: The Homecoming, The Circle and The Siege. He plays Li Nalas, a hero of the Bajoran resistance long believed dead, whom Kira and O'Brien rescue from a Cardassian labour camp. Li admits that his fame rests on an accident, but he accepts the role his people need, is made liaison officer to the station and dies shielding Sisko from an assassin.
His Twin Peaks colleague Ray Wise also guest starred in Star Trek.