Matt Winston
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Matt Winston (born ca. 1970) is the actor who played the character of temporal agent Daniels on many episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, beginning with the first season's "Cold Front". He was born in Los Angeles, California, and is the son of special effects wizard and Digital Domain co-founder Stan Winston (1946–2008).
Winston's other television credits include recurring roles as Dr. Jeffrey Steadman on the hit television series Scrubs (starring Ken Jenkins) and as Terry on HBO's Six Feet Under, co-starring James Cromwell. He has made guest appearances on such shows as That '70s Show (starring Kurtwood Smith and Don Stark), NYPD Blue (starring Gordon Clapp, in an episode with Kenneth Tigar), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Monk (with Stanley Kamel and Michelle Krusiec), Without a Trace (starring Enrique Murciano), Las Vegas (starring Nikki Cox), Charmed (in an episode with John de Lancie and Joel Swetow), 7th Heaven (with Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, and Charles Emmett), and ABC's hit Grey's Anatomy. He also appeared with Paul Sorvino and Robert Picardo in the 2000 HBO movie The Amati Girls.
On film, Winston appeared in the Star Trek parody Galaxy Quest (1999, with Robin Sachs and Heidi Swedberg) and the 2001 science fiction film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, with Paula Malcomson, April Grace, John Prosky, Tim Rigby, Michael Shamus Wiles, Jim Jansen, Elza Coleman, Miguel Perez, and Matt Malloy). Both of these films featured effects work by Winston's father.
In addition, Winston had roles in the horror movie sequels Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994, with Tracy Middendorf, Rob LaBelle, and Fran Bennett) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). In 2001's Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (also from Paramount), Winston appeared with his Enterprise co-star John Billingsley. Winston also had a role in the 2003 science fiction film The Core, co-starring Bruce Greenwood, Glenn Morshower, and Alfre Woodard and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Winston worked with director David Fincher on the acclaimed films Fight Club (1999, with David Andrews, Tim De Zarn, and Zach Grenier) and Zodiac (2007). In the latter film, Winston played the brother the prime suspect in the Zodiac murders as portrayed by John Carroll Lynch. Zodiac also co-starred Zach Grenier and Thomas Kopache, with Brian Cox as Melvin Belli.
His other film credits include The Peacemaker (1997, with Gary Werntz, Richard Poe, and Bruce Gray), About Scmidt (2002, with Harry Groener), Deliver Us from Eva (2003, with Gabrielle Union), and Kicking and Screaming (2005, with Musetta Vander, Rachael Harris, and Tom Virtue). More recently, Winston played the pageant MC in the acclaimed, award-winning 2005 comedy Little Miss Sunshine. Winston also appeared in the hit comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry in 2007, in addition to starring on the short-lived HBO series John from Cincinnati with Jim Beaver, Willie Garson, and The Core co-star Bruce Greenwood.
Winston lives with his wife, Amy Smallman, their two children – a son and a daughter – and "their two insane dogs" in Los Angeles. [1] His famous father, Stan Winston, died of multiple myeloma on 15 June 2008, aged 62. [2]
