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In addition to his guest spot on DS9, Pop had small acting roles in films and television series like Sid and Nancy (also featuring Biff Yeager) and The Color of Money (with Bill Cobbs and Ernest Perry, Jr.), followed by supporting roles in such films as the science fiction film Hardware, John Waters' Cry-Baby, the cult action movie Tank Girl (co-starring Reg E. ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. A few months before filming his DS9 role, he was injured in a mosh pit during one of his concerts, making him available during recovery. Ira Steven Behr is an Iggy Pop fan and pushed for his casting as Yelgrun three years later. The DS9 writers had actually wanted Pop to play the role of Grady in the third season episode " Past Tense, Part II", but he was unavailable due to a music tour he was undertaking in Spain. He was the central figure of the seminal punk rock band formed in Ann Arbor in 1967 that was eventually called "The Stooges." Pop would later go solo, working with such talent as David Bowie (the husband of Star Trek actress Iman) before scoring a US Top 40 hit in a 1991 duet with the B-52s' Kate Pierson and the song "Candy". Osterburg shaved his eyebrows for a show, which apparently made him resemble Jim Popp, who had recently had chemotherapy.
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He took the name "Iggy Pop" at the age of 19 after beginning his career in music: Iggy after The Iguanas (his first band) and Pop after Jim Popp, a friend.
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Osterberg was born in Muskegon, Michigan. Iggy Pop ( born 21 April 1947 age 75) is the stage name of James Newell Osterberg, Jr., a rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor who appeared as Yelgrun in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode " The Magnificent Ferengi".