Oz Perkins (born2 February1974; age 51) is an actor who played LieutenantHawkins in Star Trek. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (best known for playing Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho) and photographer Berry Berenson. The younger Perkins himself played a young Norman Bates in a brief flashback in the film Psycho II.
Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Robert Perkins II in New York City. He is a graduate of Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake School and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from New York University. He attended NYU with Star Trek executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof, although Kurtzman and Lindelof did not know each other at the time. Perkins' father died from complications of AIDS on 12 September 1992; his mother was killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001 as a passenger on United Airline's flight 11 which was crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. His mother's death coming a day before the ninth anniversary of his father's passing.
He made his film debut playing the younger version of his father's character, Norman Bates, in Psycho II (1983). He met Star Trek director and producer J.J. Abrams while working on Six Degrees of Separation (1993), in which both Abrams and Perkins had acting roles. This film also featured veteran Star Trek guest star Bruce Davison. Perkins then appeared in Wolf (1994, starring Christopher Plummer).
Perhaps his best-known film role is that of "Dorky David" in Legally Blonde (2001, with Michael Buchman Silver). That same year, Perkins was seen in Not Another Teen Movie (starring Mia Kirshner, with Ed Lauter, Michael Ensign, and James Read). Perkins later had a supporting role in Secretary (2002, with Stephen McHattie and Patrick Bauchau). He then worked with Diedrich Bader, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Gina Philips in Dead & Breakfast (2004).
Perkins reunited with J.J. Abrams for the first time in 2005 when Perkins appeared on Abrams' Alias as a man in Coke-bottle glasses. Perkins also guest-starred in Close to Home (2006, with Barbara J. Tarbuck and John Carroll Lynch).
