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Cully Fredricksen is an American actor mostly recognized for portraying General Rahm Kota in the Star Wars video games The Force Unleashed, The Force Unleashed II, and Battlefront: Elite Squadron. He is also recognized for appearing in films such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and Star Trek: First Contact.
Cully Fredricksen is an actor who has appeared in Star Trek: First Contact, New Nightmare, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and more. See his biography, credits, videos, photos and contact info on IMDb.
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"One of the luxuries afforded me for the part of Kota was that LucasArts provided me with a script, character breakdown, and artwork of the character ahead of time. My recollection of that day wasn't so much that I walked in as Kota, but that the team was able to coax the character out of me. It was like the collaboration had already begun before I was even given the part."
―Cully Fredricksen
Fredricksen is an actor known to be heavily involved with science fiction productions such as Star Trek: First Contact as the Vulcan Captain (the first acknowledged alien to set foot on Earth) and Star Trek: Voyager as Dereth. He also appeared in several other TV series, such as Midnight Caller, Silk Stalkings, ER and Renegade.
Fredricksen was the first actor cast for The Force Unleashed video game. One of several actors who read for the part, he approached the reading fully in-character, which initially made W. Haden Blackman, the casting director, believe that the actor may be standoffish and difficult to work with. However, it was soon realized that Fredricksen was just being Kota. That, combined with the actor's physicality and his ability to produce a wide range of facial expressions, convinced the production team to hire him as the gruff general. Fredricksen was described by Blackman as the "consummate professional," and "a lot of fun to work with."
•"Juno and the Jedi" — Star Wars Insider 120
1."Juno and the Jedi" — Star Wars Insider 120
2.Casting and Capturing Captivating Performances - Casting Characters on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
•Cully Fredricksen at the Internet Movie Database
•Casting and Capturing Captivating Performances - Casting Characters on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
•The Force Unleashed: Co-Star Evolution on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
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Actor: Star Trek: First Contact. Cully Fredricksen is known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), New Nightmare (1994) and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008).
Sep 1, 2023 · First Contact's closing credits list the character simply as Vulcan (Cully Fredricksen) so there's certainly no reason that the character couldn't be retroactively seen as Solkar, the first in the family line of Vulcan diplomats that will lead to Spock.
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Cully Fredricksen. Credits (text only) Hide Actor (33 credits) 2016 Mafia III (Video Game) Jonathan Maguire (voice) 2012 About Cherry. Pool Player #1. 2010 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Video Game) General Rahm Kota (voice) 2010 The Singularity Is Near (Documentary) Agent #5. 2010 Kilo (Short) Sgt. Miller.
Cully Fredricksen is the first Vulcan to meet humans in StarTrek: First Contact. He also owns an Office Evolution franchise in Sausalito, California, with the support of his brother-in-law Mark Hemmeter. Learn how he switched from acting to business and built a thriving community.
