Gates McFadden

Gates McFadden stars as Doctor Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was born on August 28, 1953. Her movies include: Hunt for Red October (1990), Taking Car of Business (1990), Legend (1986), Rustlers Rhapsody (1985), and When Nature Calls (1985).

Her tv appearances include: All My Children, Cosby Show, Dream On, and L.A.Law. Prior to her work in Star Trek: The Next Generation, she had lead roles in several New York plays: Cloud 9, Emerald City,Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. She also starred Matchmaker, The Homecoming, and The Bloodletters. Before that, she directed choreography and puppet movement for The Muppets Take Manhatten and The Labyrinth.

Doctor Beverly Crusher is the Chief Medical Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. She is a widow of Jack Crusher who died while on a mission saving Captain Picard. She has a son, Wesley, who was an acting Ensign on the Enterprise before attending Starfleet Academy and becoming a "traveller." Her important STNG episodes includes: Suspicion (Beverly risks her career to prove a pioneering Ferengi scientist was murdered); Identity Crisis (Beverly race against time to locate a parasite that threatens to turn Geordi into a alien creature); Remember Me (she faces a disappearing crew due to Wesleys warp field experiements); Attached (telepathic linkage with Picard); The Host (romance with alien who changed hosts to survive); Sub Rosa (bewitched by ghost lover after her grandmother died); and High Ground (abducted by terrorists).

Beverly is a gifted doctor who found an antidote for viruses in Naked Now and Angel One. She clashed over medical ethics when an experimental surgery that could help Worf walk again could also kill him. She was born on October 13, 2334 on Luna and attended Starfleet Academy from 2349-2355. She is a qualified bridge officer and commanded the ship when Lore's Borg army captured Picard, Troi, and LaForge. She brilliantly used metaphasic shielding to destroy the Borg ship in a star's corona in Descent I/II.