About Michael Dorn

For the last decade, Michael has been covering his leading man looks with 90 minutes worth of make-up every day to create the other-worldly and beloved Worf, the Klingon Starfleet Academy officer in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and motion pictures Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek VII: Generations and Star Trek VIII: First Contact.

Prior to Star Trek, he co-starred for three seasons as Officer Jed Turner on the ABC series CHiPs and has guest-starred in other prime-time shows, such as Getting By, Hotel, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, and W.E.B. Other film appearances include Jagged Edge, Rocky and Demon Seed.

But acting wasn't always his ambition. Born in Luling, Texas and raised in Pasadena, California, he studied radio/television production at Pasadena City College. When he left school, his interests settled in music; it was there he started an early professional career as a performer, making his living in the mid '70s playing and singing in several rock bands.

In 1988, Dorn earned his pilot's license. Since then, he has flown with the Blue Angels and participated in the flight maneuvers of an F-16 with some of the nation's top guns. He now owns a T-33 twin-engine military training jet, which he flies to air shows around the country.