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Marcus Nash (born 25 August 1970; age 53) is an actor from Austin, Texas, who played the young Ensign Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Tapestry". His sister, Jennifer Nash, played Meribor in the fifth season episode "The Inner Light".
Aside from Star Trek, Nash also appeared in the short film Tolerance (2000) and lent his voice to the 2004 comedy Career Suicide, which he also produced. More recently, he wrote and directed the comedy Tripping Forward (2009, with Ed Begley, Jr., Bobby C. King, and his sister), worked as producer on the short drama Death of a Nation (2010) and as executive producer on the short comedy In the Meantime (2010), and wrote and directed the short western Piece (2010) and the horror thriller Lost Lake (2011).