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Brian Thompson
Brian Earl Thompson was born on August 28, 1959 in Ellensburg, Washington. Raised on the Columbia River in Longview, he learned the value of academics and athletics, as the son of two teachers and the second of six siblings. His interest in acting was first sparked during his senior year of high school with the role of the Russian ballet instructor, Boris Kolenkhov, in the comedy "You Can't Take it With You". Under the pretense of attending Central Washington University to play football and study business management, he quietly auditioned for every available play, treading the boards for a dozen school productions, from musicals and operas to the more lighthearted fare of Neil Simon.
Earning a scholarship to the University of California-Irvine, he sailed through a three-year Master of Fine Arts program, learning from such theatrical luminaries as playwright Edward Albee, Robert Cohen and Jerzy Grotoswski, and supplementing his education through work with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He began to audition theatrically before graduation, and by
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Brian Thompson
ACTOR
1959 - Today
Brian Thompson
Brian Earl Thompson (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Thompson has received more than 2,899,522 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Brian Thompson is the 2,430th most popular actor (up from 3,259th in 2019), the 3,845th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,068th in 2019) and the 1,111th most popular American Actor.
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2.9M
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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
27
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4.71
Effective Languages (L*)
3.02
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Among ACTORS
Among actors, Brian Thompson ranks 2,430 out of 13,578. Before him are Antonio Moreno, Eric Braeden, Fritz Muliar, Jeffrey Jones, Akira Takarada, and Jeff Fahey. After him are Nina F
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Brian Thompson (actor)
American actor (born 1959)
Brian Earl Thompson (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988.[1][2][3] Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Commander William Riker that "Gagh is always best when served live", the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files, and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced.[4] In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movieparodyThe Extendables.[5]
Early life
Thompson was born in Ellensburg, Washington, and raised in Longview. He attended Central Washington University, where he studied business management, played football, and appeared in many school productions. He then moved to California and earned a Master of
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