Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson is an American actress and director who started out on the stage, making her professional debut in a Broadway staging of A Chorus Line and appearing as a background dancer in its 1985 film version. Born in Los Angeles, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. She worked on the NBC drama Nightingales in 1989 and took guest parts on Matlock and Jake and the Fatman. In 1994 she was cast as B'Elanna Torres, the half Human and half Klingon engineer on Star Trek: Voyager, and stayed with the show for its seven seasons. During that run she began directing, starting with the episode Riddles in 1999, and later directed installments of Star Trek: Enterprise, Lost, Heroes and many other series. Dawson also produced Scandal, Crossing Jordan and Cold Case, and wrote plays and a science fiction novel trilogy with Daniel Graham.