Raphael Sbarge has explored countless worlds in more than 40 years as an actor — from fairy tales, as Archie Hopper and Jiminy Cricket in the hit ABC drama Once Upon a Time, to outer space as the heroic Kaidan Alenko in the highly acclaimed videogame series Mass Effect.

His own story began in Manhattan. He began working at the age of 4, when a new PBS show called Sesame Street was looking for kids. At 13, Raphael decided to become an actor and found an agent. He started working almost immediately: By 16, he was in his first Broadway show; at 18, just days after graduating high school, he flew to Chicago to co-star in Risky Business with Tom Cruise.

Raphael has appeared in more than 30 films, including Vision Quest, Independence Day and Pearl Harbor. He was a series regular on The Guardian and has made more than 100 guest appearances, including recurring roles on Dexter, Big Love, Prison Break, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, 24, CSI: NY, Profiler and Star Trek: Voyager. He has also contributed his voice to the highly acclaimed games Mass Effect (The New York Times’ Game of the Year) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.