Gabrielle Beaumont

Gabrielle Beaumont was an English director who directed seven episodes of and one episode of both and . She was the first woman to direct on Star Trek.
She was born Gabrielle Amanda Toyne in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire into a show business family going back four generations, to actor parents Gabriel Toyne and Diana Beaumont. Her great-uncle was noted thespian and theatre manager Sir , making her a cousin of famed writer . Her brother, Christopher Toyne is also an actor and director.
She started out as a child actress on the London stage at age seven in a production of Peter Pan and spent five years with the ensemble of a repertoire theatre. After graduating from high school, she took her mother's maiden name. She graduated in stage direction and worked at the BBC as a film editor, working her way up to assistant director, production manager, and director.
After directing several documentaries and television series episodes for the BBC, she helmed the 1980 horror film The Godsend, which was co-written by her future husband, actor Olaf Pooley. In the same year, she traveled to Los Angeles to meet US television producer who was looking for female directors, being pressured by the industry to employ more women in this capacity.
Beaumont debuted in American television with an episode of Spelling's Vega$, featuring Gary Lockwood, Barbara Baldavin, Ian Abercrombie, and Frank Corsentino. This way followed by a two-decade career in television directing in Hollywood. Her other directorial credits include M*A*S*H (starring David Ogden Stiers), The Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, , and Beverly Hills, 90210.
In 1982, she married the aforementioned Olaf Pooley, who appeared in the Voyager episode , which Beaumont directed. She had previously directed Pooley in a 1978 edition of pre-school program Rainbow, in a 1978 episode of Shadows, in the 1984 TV movie Gone Are the Dayes (co-starring Bibi Besch), in a 1989 episode of The Paradise Club, in a 1990 episode of TECX, in a 1992 episode of L.A. Law, in a 1996 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (starring Joe Lando), and in the 1996 TV movie Beastmaster: The Eye of Braxus (co-starring Patrick Kilpatrick, Tony Todd, and David Warner). The pair later separated.
Beaumont wrote a 1989 episode of A Fine Romance, as well as the 1998 TV film Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess, which she also directed, about the life of Diana, the Princess of Wales, who died the previous year.
In August 1994, Beaumont married cinematographer Michael J. Davis, who died in 2008. After retiring from the film and television industry, Beaumont moved to Spain. She died in her home on the Spanish island of Mallorca on October 8, 2022. 
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