Leslie Ackerman

Leslie Ackerman is an American actress from Springfield, New Jersey who took an interest in theater as a child. In 1974 she played Abigail in the Broadway production Mourning Pictures. She appeared in films such as Cracking Up (1977) and Hardcore (1979), and in 1979 she was in the television film Women at West Point, for which she spent three weeks at the United States Military Academy undergoing military training. In 1980 she took the part of Barbara Skagska in Skag, an NBC drama. She is familiar to Star Trek fans as the waitress in the 1996 Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-ations. Her many television guest appearances include All in the Family, Quincy, CHiPs, Moonlighting and Baywatch. She wrote, produced and starred in What's Eating You? in 2000.