My name is Anthony Montgomery.
I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana.
I started acting in college.
I started acting when I went to IUPUI
and
I was not a child actor.
The only acting I did as a kid was
up.
I got into trouble.
They called me mischievous.
I when I started college there was a professor
that was casting and play called East of the
sun west of the moon
told me I had a great look and if
I ever wanted to be an actor then I
should
audition for his play.
I didn't know what auditioning was but I heard
stories.
So I'm thinking along the casting couch
type of audition.
I was like, what do you mean I businesslike.
I'll give you a piece of paper and you
read it.
And
however, it makes you feel you say it just
like that
just like okay that
and I literally I'm in
the ad that Indiana mentality.
So I'm thinking okay.
I don't have to take my clothes off and
have to do anything.
You know that I would never do and he
was like no.
No, what are you no, no,
I auditioned
and I got the part and I've been acting
since I've never looked back.
It was a children's.
This theater play
and I played The North Wind
had a big frilly costume
and I ran around on stage
and and I loved it.
You got the instant gratification from the kids
at the instant adulation
there.
They are genuinely excited or they genuinely hate you
because
that's who they are.
I love that.
Most of all
I said, okay if I can affect people like
this.
I'm going to do it for the rest of
my life
started that in college, and I've never looked back.
My first job before Enterprise
was
popular.
I was on
a WB show called Popular and I played a
character called George Austin
and I was a high school quarterback.
But
I also had three regular jobs in between
there.
So I worked
as a
hotel security guard.
I worked as an MC and DJ for bar
and Bat Mitzvahs,
and
I worked at an
doing office
data entry
at a market research company.
I've been working since I was 15 years old,
so I don't know how to not work quite
honestly.
I
actually auditioned for Voyager a couple of years ago
and that actually started a relationship with Ron surma
the casting director and that casting office.
They brought me back in a year and a
half later for a role as tuvok's son.
It wasn't even a physical presence.
He would have been a transmission
and I didn't get that one and
I was blessed third time's a charm.
So I auditioned for this and got it.
What I do when I got cast I screamed
I called my mother in Indiana
and I told her what
told her that I had gotten a job
and she said that's good baby.
And I said so are you sitting down
and then I told her what my job was
and she screamed through the phone.
It was great.
I'm a part of something.
That's
I'm a part of something that's established.
My favorite part of this job is just having
the job anyone in this town
can tell you you can work
your entire life
and never get
A job that's even close to being as incredible
as this
so just the fact that I got cashed
and I'm a part of History.
I'm not just
you know, this isn't a show where
I wonder what's going to happen from week to
week.
We know what's going on with our show.
We know that there is a
an established fan base out there.
We know
that we're loved worldwide
as the best part to me
that I get to go to work.