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Actor Leonard Nimoy, globally famous for playing Spock on Star Trek, died on Friday morning, 27 February, at the age of 83
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Nimoy was also a writer, a photographer, and a musician, but none could touch the impact he made defining Spock, the Enterprise's logical and emotionless science officer. So much so that in his final tweet, he signed off with one of his character's most memorable phrases: "live long and prosper."
Born in 1931 in Boston, he acted in several amateur productions as a child and then began his movie and TV acting career in 1951. But it wasn't until 1965, when Nimoy passed on a role in Peyton Place to take a part in Gene Roddenberry's TV show Star Trek – and the rest would become history.
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Spock's funeral scene from 'Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan' (1982) resurfaced with news of his demise. In the scene, Admiral James T. Kirk pays a tearful goodbye to Spock, saying: "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human."
Nimoy, a classically trained actor, had a complicated relationship with his most famous creation – Spock, at least in the early days, notes the NYT blog Arts Beat
Leonard Nimoy at his 2010 one-person photography exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Mass
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