Anthony T. Montgomery (born June 2, 1971 in Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

) is an American

United States

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 film

Film

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 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Ensign Travis Mayweather

Travis Mayweather

Travis Mayweather is a fictional character, played by Anthony Montgomery, in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, serving as a navigator and helm officer aboard the starship Enterprise. He holds the rank of Ensign, and is in the command division...

 on the UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...

(the fifth live-action series in the Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

franchise). Montgomery is the grandson of jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...

. He graduated from Ball State University

Ball State University

Ball State University is a state-run research university located in Muncie, Indiana. It is also known as Ball State or simply BSU.Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans and includes 106 buildings...

 with a degree in performance theater and drama. Montgomery did stand-up comedy briefly after graduation, before moving to California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

Sometimes credited as "A.T. Montgomery", his first starring role was in the horror-spoof Leprechaun: In the Hood

Leprechaun: In the Hood

Leprechaun: In the Hood is a horror comedy directed by Rob Spera which was released in 2000. It is chronologically the first film in the series . It is the fifth entry in the Leprechaun series.- Plot :Wannabe Los Angeles rap artists Postmaster P...

(2000). He had a recurring role on the television series Popular

Popular (TV series)

Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to...

before being cast in Star Trek: Enterprise in 2001. In 2004, he returned to the stage in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, producing the show Dutchman

Dutchman

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by LeRoi Jones

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka , formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism...

, as well as returning to stand-up comedy. In the summer of 2005, he returned to Indiana to star in theatrical fundraisers for charity. He also had a minor role as helmsman Geoff Corin in the PC Game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy may refer to:* Star Trek: Starfleet Academy * Star Trek: Starfleet Academy * Starfleet Academy, a fictional school in Star Trek...

(1997)

Montgomery has produced one CD of his own music, What You Know About..., featuring four songs about Star Trek themes. He is a frequent guest at Star Trek conventions. Montgomery is a keen martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

 student, and a practitioner of Hapkido

Hapkido

Hapkido is a dynamic and also eclectic Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, techniques of other martial arts, as well as kicks, punches, and other striking attacks...

. He has also studied Koga Ryu Ninjutsu

Ninjutsu

or may be:*the arts associated with espionage and assassination in feudal Japan, see Ninja*modern schools of martial arts claiming to be based in these traditions, see Modern Schools of Ninjutsu*fictional depictions, see Ninja in popular culture...

. In April 2007 Anthony Montgomery signed with the Germany based AGR Television Records. His (Hip-Hop) debut-album, titled A.T., was released in November 2008. http://www.anthony-montgomery.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=1&Itemid=30

Montgomery starred in the film I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks)

I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks)

I'm Through with White Girls is a 2007 independent romantic comedy film starring Anthony Montgomery. Directed by Jennifer Sharp, the film was shot in Los Angeles over the course of twenty-four days using hand held cameras.- Plot :The movie centers around a Jay Brooks , a black man who vows to give...

in 2007.

In January 2009, Montgomery appeared in an episode of the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 series House

House (TV series)

House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...

.

External links

• Official Site

• LA Weekly
• Record label of Anthony Montgomery (Multi-Lingual)