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Howie Seago
Place of birth:
Tacoma, Washington, USA
Howie Seago (born15 December1953; age 71) is the actor, director, and producer who played Riva in the Star Trek: The Next Generationsecond season episode "Loud As A Whisper". Like his character, Seago is deaf.
Born as Howard W. Seago in Tacoma, Washington he joined the National Theatre of the Deaf and acted in various plays around the world including Peter Sellar's "Ajax" and David Byrne's "The Forrest". He also worked as an actor at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Festival. Today Seago is a well known member of the American Deaf Community and is working as author and teacher.
Seago appeared in episodes of Hunter (1988, starring Charles Hallahan, with Kavi Raz) and The Equalizer (1989, starring Keith Szarabajka, with Jon Polito) and received international acknowledgements for his part in the German drama Beyond Silence in 1996 which earned several film awards and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.
In 2008 Seago appeared in the short documentary The Deaf Man and portrayed Grandpa Dale in the family movie The Legend of the Mountain Man.
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Early life, kith and kin and education
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Howie Seago is one of the most engaged deaf actors in the USA. For more than 20 years he's been working as an actor, director and producer all over the world. Deaf from birth, Seago started to develop his mimic abilities as a child with the help of his mother, before he stepped on stage before the public for the first time in college. His break-through role was in Peter Sellar's production "Ajax"; David Byrne, the singer of the 'Talking Heads', saw him in this performance and was so impressed that he cast him for the role of the king in his German production of "The Forest" (1989). For his performances as an actor Seago has been honored several times, including the prestigious Helen Hayes award. Apart from numerous further other plays he was also on television, e.g. in Hunter (1984), as well as in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and The Equalizer (1985). Beyond that, He helped create the Emmy winning TV show "Rainbow's End" for deaf children. He also produced some plays and by his commitment as author and teacher he became a central figure of the American Deaf Community.
BornDecember 15, 1953