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    Apr212010

    Leonard Nimoy Plans to Retire From Acting

    DateWed, April 21, 2010

    The actor and director best known for his role in various Star Trek movies as well as the original television series, has decided he plans to retire, again. He agreed to make Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan only on the condition that Spock would be killed off in grand fashion, but the film turned out well enough that he not only reprised the character in the third film, but directed the picture as well.

    Now Nimoy has made his final appearance as Spock, in last year’s Star Trek, and will make his final acting appearance, period, on an upcoming episode of Fringe. Nimoy says that, after sixty years of acting, he plans to retire for good.

    The Toronto Sun spoke to the actor recently, who says that after "countless times" of thinking he was done, this is really it.

    "I want to get off the stage. Also, I don't think it would be fair to Zachary Quinto. He's a terrific actor, he looks the part, and it's time to give him some space. And I'm very flattered the character will continue. I've been doing this professionally for 60 years. I love the idea of going out on a positive note. I've had a great time, great time."

    His final acting appearance will be on Fringe, where his character originally came about as a favor to producer JJ Abrams, who revived Star Trek with last year's feature.

    Nimoy will appear in my home town at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend, but says he has only a few more public appearances planned. He'll concentrate on photography from here on out.

    TMT will officially be in attendance to cover the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend, so be sure to check back for the full story on the CCEE, which we should have up next Monday

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    Reader Comments (3)

    Thats cool that your covering this, I'm going to it this weekend! I plan to puff a J with Lando lol

    04-21-2010 | Unregistered CommenterDave

    i highly doubt that Billy Dee will be puffing a J with you Dave...

    Sad to hear about Nimoy, I was hopeing to see him in Start Trek 2

    04-21-2010 | Unregistered CommenterBatmanFan

    I live outside Calgary, maybe i'll surpise my man and bring him to this

    04-22-2010 | Unregistered CommenterMegan

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