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The Man Who Was Spock

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3 actors have played Spock. Leonard Nimoy in the original series, and the 5 films. He also reprised his role for TNG, and most recently in the Kelvin timeline movies. Zachary Quito plays him in the Kelvin timeline.
Nimoy, the second son of Jewish immigrants from Izyaslav, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), grew up in a tenement in Boston's West End neighbourhood. As a child, he began acting in community theatre productions.
Born in Boston on March 26, 1931, Leonard Simon Nimoy was the second son of Max and Dora Nimoy, Ukrainian immigrants and Orthodox Jews. His father worked as a barber.
After retiring from active duty in Starfleet, Spock served as a Federation ambassador, and later became involved in the ill-fated attempt to save Romulus from a supernova, leading him to live out the rest of his life in a parallel universe.
Star Trek: Enterprise's Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and Sub-commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) were the franchise's most overt Kirk and Spock replacements. Given that Enterprise was a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, Archer and T'Pol were forerunners to Kirk and Spock in terms of Starfleet history.