Biography of leonard nimoy

Leonard Nimoy was a Jewish American actor, film director, poet, singer and photographer.

He was born Leonard Simon Nimoy on March 26, , in Boston, Massachusetts. Nimoy was raised in a Jewish home in Boston, went to Boston College and Antioch, and trained at the Pasadena Playhouse.

During the s, Nimoy began his career doing small roles in B-movies and TV shows, such as working on the serial Zombies of the Stratosphere in In , he had a minor role in The Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”.

In , Nimoy landed his best known role as the character Spock on the original television series, Star Trek; he remained on the show for its three-year run. He earned three Emmy nominations for playing this character. Following the shows cancellation, Nimoy played a spy on the hit television series Mission Impossible from

In , Nimoy starred in the Western movie Catlow. He also appeared in a few made for television films such as Baffled (), Marco Polo (), and

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Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy | Jewish Book Council

Not­ed actor and direc­tor Leonard Nimoy is pro­filed in this won­der­ful pic­ture biog­ra­phy which details his rich Jew­ish back­ground, his ear­ly love of the­ater, his high­ly devel­oped work eth­ic, his deep love of fam­i­ly, and his deter­mi­na­tion to achieve his goals.

Assist­ed by Edel Rodriguez’s cap­ti­vat­ing illus­tra­tions, Richard Michel­son explores Nimoy’s famous strug­gle to both iden­ti­fy with and sep­a­rate from his most icon­ic char­ac­ter, Mr. Spock of Star Trek, as well as the spe­cial touch­es the actor cre­at­ed and per­fect­ed in bring­ing this well-known tele­vi­sion and movie per­son­al­i­ty to life. The sto­ry traces the source of Spock­’s sig­na­ture Vul­can grabb greet­ing to Nimoy’s child­hood, sneak­ing a peek at the priest­ly bless­ing in syn­a­gogue dur­ing High Hol­i­day services.

The child of immi­grants who felt a bit alien them­selves in their new coun­try, Nimoy b

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Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy in May
Born	Leonard Simon Nimoy ()March 26, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 27, () (aged&#;83) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause&#;of death	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director, poet, photographer, singer, songwriter
Years&#;active	–[2][3]
Television	Star Trek
Spouse(s)	Sandra Zober (m. , divorced) Susan Bay (m. , his death)
Children
Website

Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, &#;&#; February 27, )^[4] was an Americanactor, movie director, poet, musician and photographer. He was famous for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek, an American television series that was made for three years in the late s.

Early life

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Nimoy was born and raised in Bost