Roxann Dawson
| Roxann Dawson | |
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| Born | Roxann Caballero Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Roxann Biggs, Roxann Biggs-Dawson |
| Occupation | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse(s) | Casey Biggs (divorced) Eric Dawson (m. 1994)[1] |
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| http://www.roxanndawson.net/ | |
Roxann Dawson (née Caballero[2]) is an American actress, producer, and director, best known as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
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Career [edit]
Acting [edit]
A 1980 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley[3] Dawson's first professional acting job was in a Broadway production of A Chorus Line.[1] She continued a stage career through the 1980s and 1990s, while occasionally landing minor film and television roles.
In 1994, Dawson began her role as the half Human/half-Klingon engineer B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager which lasted for all seven seasons of the show.
Her other television credits include appearances on Nightingales, Baywatch, The Closer, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, The Untouchables, Any Day Now, Without a Trace, The Lyon's Den, The Division, the U.S. version of Coupling, and the science fiction television series Seven Days. She also provided voicework for an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Directing and producing [edit]
While working on Voyager, Dawson made her directorial debut on the episode "Riddles", which aired in September 1999. Dawson later directed the second part of the two-part episode "Workforce" and directed several episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.
She has directed episodes of Charmed, The O.C., Close to Home (where she directed fellow Star Trek alum Connor Trinneer), Lost, Heroes, Hawthorne, The Closer, Cold Case, Caprica (produced by Star Trek veteran Ronald D. Moore), The Mentalist, and Treme. In 2010, she directed "Teacher and Pupils", a second season episode of Lie to Me; and "On Tap", a second season episode of The Good Wife. In 2013, she directed "Reunions", the March 22 episode of Touch.
Dawson has served as a producer on Scandal, Crossing Jordan and Cold Case.
Writing [edit]
Dawson's first play, Passage Through the Heart, debuted in 1997 at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has also written, with Daniel Graham, a trilogy of science-fiction novels, Entering Tenebrea (ISBN 0-671-03607-6), Tenebrea's Hope (ISBN 0-671-03609-2) and Tenebrea Rising (ISBN 0-671-03611-4).
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Biography". The Official Roxann Dawson Website. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ McDonagh, Maitland (January 2, 2003). "Question: Are Rosario Dawson ..." TV Guide.
- ^ "Famous Berkeley Alumni". University of California, Berkeley Online Tour. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
External links [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Roxann Dawson |
- Official website
- Roxann Dawson at the Internet Movie Database
- Roxann Dawson at AllRovi
- Roxann Dawson at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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- 1958 births
- American film actresses
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- American television directors
- American television producers
- Female television directors
- Living people
- Actresses from Los Angeles, California
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
