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John Billingsley (/ˈbɪlɪŋɡzli/, born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama and Slidell, Louisiana, before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut. He graduated from Bennington College in 1982.
He made an appearance in "It Happened in Juneau", a third season episode of the TV comedy-drama Northern Exposure, playing a patient treated by Marilyn. Billingsley made an appearance in the The X-Files episode entitled Three of a Kind, playing a friend of the Lone Gunmen who turns out to be a government spy. He was cast in the role of Professor Miles Ballard in the short-lived television series The Others and then as the Denobulan Doctor Phlox in the fifth live action Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise, which ran for four seasons. He also played himself in an episode of Roswell that used the Enterprise set. He also starred in the independent film Breathing Hard (2000) in the same year. In 2002, he was a guest star in an episode of Stargate SG-1, playing a scientist who is also a Trekkie, "worship[ping] at the altar of Roddenberry". He also had a sizeable role as Denzel Washington's coroner friend in the 2003 film Out of Time.