Efrain Figueroa

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Efrain Figueroa is an actor and voice artist who voiced the translator in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Fight or Flight".

Figueroa is also a writer, producer and director who received four Telly Awards for over 30 spanish/ english corporate films. In 1995 he received a Drama Logue Award for his performance as Josefino in the stage play La Chunga and in 1998 he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance as best supporting male actor in the comedy film Star Maps which also featured Douglas Spain.

Figueroa has acted in several television series such as Hunter (1985, with Sam Anderson and directed by David Soul), T. J. Hooker (1985, starring William Shatner and James Darren, with Eric Server), Dallas (1986, with Susan Howard, John Beck, Barry Jenner and Joshua Harris), Cagney & Lacey (1986, with Dan Shor), War of the Worlds (1989, with Richard Chaves and Ric Sarabia), Diagnosis: Murder (1994, with Jim Metzler), Murder She Wrote (1985 & 1994, former with Cliff Potts and William Windom, latter with Kaitlin Hopkins, Allan Miller, Cyril O'Reilly, Andrew Robinson and David Ogden Stiers), Cracker (1997, starring Carolyn McCormick and Robert Wisdom, with Patty Holley, Angela Paton and John Towey), Touched by an Angel (1999), JAG (1997 & 2000), Family Law (2001, starring Christopher McDonald, Salli Elise Richardson, Julie Warner, Michelle Horn and Orla Brady, with Ed Begley, Jr. and Brett Cullen), ER (2002, with Ed Lauter, Cyril O'Reilly, Michelle C. Bonilla and Geoff Meed), Six Feet Under (2002, with Joanna Cassidy, Robert Foxworth, Richard Lynch and Ed O'Ross), Threat Matrix (2004, with Colby French), and recurring roles in Walker, Texas Ranger (1994-96, starring Clarence Gilyard, Jr. and Noble Willingham) and The Shield (2002-04, with Benito Martinez, Michael Jace and Jay Karnes).

Among his acting resume are also films such as Tequila Sunrise (1988, with Gabriel Damon, Ann Magnuson, Daniel Zacapa and Geno Silva), Columbo: Murder in Malibu (1990, with Ben Slack, Bill Zuckert and Connie Danese), Dangerous Touch (1994, with Kate Vernon and Adam Roarke), Desperate Measures (1998, with Richard Riehle, Tracey Walter, Dennis Cockrum, Tim Kelleher, Danny Rogers, Johnny C. Meier and John Rottger), Largo (2000, with John Vargas and Eric Steinberg), Last Call (2005), and Stiletto (2008).

As a voice artist he has performed in films such as Death Becomes Her (1992), Menno's Mind (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997, with Denise Crosby), Memento (2000), and Happy Feet (2006), mostly as a member of the adr loop group.

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