May 21, 2024:
Face of the menacing other. Big-boned villain: vampire, Klingon, shape-shifting alien bounty hunter.
Casting shorthand for threat. He's not a person, he's a function, the visual convention for danger made flesh, recurring across shows. Where the convention is so stable that one actor can embody it across a decade and a dozen franchises.
In the '90s you could always immediately tell the badguys from the heroes.