Michelle Forbes
Who is this fabulous actress ?
That's an exact quote from the first time I saw her in the "Star Trek - The Next Generation"episode called "Ensign Ro". In all the few TNG episodes I'd seen 'till then everything was nice, comfortable
and chummy. Then she walked of the transporter pad. It only took 5 seconds untill she had violated
some regulation. At first I thought I liked the character alot, but the more I see of this woman
the more I like her. But her character, Ro Laren, is by far my favourite ST character.
One of the more weird
things about this woman is her birthday.
At first I thought it was 17th February, because that was what it said everywhere
I looked.
But now I know better. Two people claiming they know this fabolous woman have
said it's actually 8th January. Regarding the year... well, I'm a gentleman
so I chose not to reveal that.
She was born in Austin, Texas. During her teens she moved to NY to star in
a daytime drama called "The Guiding Light", but later moved to L.A. Her first
appearence in TNG was actually as Dara, daughter of Dr. Timicin in "Half a
Life", but after impressing The Powers That Be she was asked to do another
role, as Ensign Ro. She accepted(obviously) and made such a good job of it
that the character became one of the most popular character, and thus the
character was brought on the show again and again. During '92 she was asked
to sign up for the new ST show, DS9, but because she didn't want to commit
herself to a 6 year project she declined. In the TNG episode "Preemptive Strike"
the character did another 180 and joined the Maquis. And when the next ST
series, Voyager, was in the plans she was asked again to be the Maquis captain,
but again declined :(.
Instead of doing TV she wanted to go in for movies, and landed a role in "Kalifornia",
co-starring David Duchovny (before X-Files), Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis.
And to date, that is her best movie. SEE IT!
She was playing the Chief Medical Examiner Julianna Cox of the Baltimore PD
on the NBC show "Homicide:
Life on the Street", but was written out of the show.
After that, she played another Doc in another TV show, "Wonderland",
but that show was cancelled. Or actually it was put on "indefinite hiatus",
so there's still hope.
Here's a fanpage to save the show, called SOS:Wonderland
And if the lovely Miss Forbes should see this... drop me an e-mail, that would really make my year!
This page was last updated Sunday, 29-May-2005 09:22:51 CDT by Prometheus