
Gates McFadden is an American actress and choreographer, best known for playing Dr. Beverly Crusher on UPN’s Star Trek: The Next Generation and in the four subsequent films. Other television credits include Allison Rourke on NBC’s Mad About You and Judge Mallory Jacobs on TNT’s Franklin & Bash.
Film credits include Make the Yuletide Gay, Dirty, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Insurrection/First Contact/Generations, Taking Care of Business, and The Hunt for Red October.
Theatre credits include her Off-Broadway debut as Kate in Emerald City (Perry Street Theatre), Gillian in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square Theatre), and Hippolyta/Helena/Others in A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Delacorte Theatre) and regionally, as Casey Staiger in How To Say Goodbye (Vineyard Theatre), Annie Sutter in The Bloodletters (Ensemble Studio), Ruth in The Homecoming (Jewish Repertory), and Ellen/Others in Cloud 9 (Theatre De Lys).