Brent Spiner. Actor: Star Trek - Der erste Kontakt. Brent Spiner, whose primary claim to fame is his portrayal of the beloved android Data on the television series Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987), was born and raised in Houston, Texas. His parents, Sylvia (Schwartz) and Jack Spiner, owned and operated a furniture store, and were both from Jewish immigrant families (from Austria, Hungary, and Russia). Jack died of kidney...