Mikael Salazar

Mikael Salazar is the former actor who portrayed Janel Tigan, the elder brother of Ezri Dax, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seventh season episode.

Prior to this he appeared as a handler in the Murphy Brown episode "Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 1" in 1998, followed by an appearance as a Customs officer in the television drama Border Line in 1999. The latter one featured Star Trek alumni John de Lancie, Christopher Michael, Len Cariou, Michelle Bonilla and Josh Cruze.

In 1993 Salazar joined Jillian Hessel's Workout Studio in West Hollywood as a manager and also learned and experienced the world of the Pilates apparatus. He started to do maintenance work for the equipments and built an own business within Southern California. This was also the time he was nicknamed "The Pilates Guy" and started his business he is still working on.