The event that made Shatner history took place in the episode broadcast on November 22, 1968. In that episode, Shatner kissed actress Nichelle Nichols, who plays Lieutenant Uhura. This kiss went down in history as the first kiss between a white actor and a black actress on American television.
William Shatner, the 'Captain Kirk' of the Star Trek series, whom we also know from the TV series, was born on March 22, 1931, in Montreal, Canada.
William Shatner, whose mother and father's family were Jewish European immigrants, spent his school years in Montreal, where he was born. In the same years, he also took part in children's theater in Montreal. After high school, he studied economics at McGill University in Montreal. He states that he personally witnessed anti-Semitic incidents in Montreal, where Shatner spent his student years.
William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations (1994).
William Shatner worked as a manager for a while after graduating from university in 1952. Shatner later joined the National Theater of Canada in Ottawa. Shatner, who played a number of large and small roles here, appeared in his first Broadway show in 1956. Although William Shatner's film career officially began in 1951, the first movie he actually starred in was 'The Brothers Karamazov', starring Yul Brynner in 1958 and shot by MGM Studios.
THE KISS THAT MADE HISTORY
Since then, Shatner has appeared in many films, including the leading role in the Hitchcock film "Glass Eye". However, his big break came in 1966 with his role as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series. The event that made Shatner history took place in the episode broadcast on November 22, 1968. In that episode, Shatner kissed actress Nichelle Nichols, who plays Lieutenant Uhura. This kiss went down in history as the first kiss between a white actor and a black actress on American television.
Shatner, who also has an autobiography titled 'Up Till Now' written by David Fisher and published in 2008, is one of the rare people who has a star on the Walk of Fame both in Hollywood and in Canada. Another feature of Shatner is that he is the first Canadian actor to star in a series on the three major TV channels of the USA, NBC, CBS, and ABC. Shatner won both the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his role as Danny Crane in the TV series 'Boston Legal' in 2005. The last one was “S#*!,” which was broadcast by CBS in 2010. He starred in the TV series "My Dad Says". Both series were broadcast in our country and watched with admiration.
Shatner, who has been married four times, has three children from his first marriage with Gloria Rand. William Bill Shatner is currently with Elizabeth Anderson Martin, whom he has been married to since 2001.