Denise Crosby

***Denise Crosby*** (born November 24, 1957) is an American actress and model, best known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles, and for starring in and producing the film Trekkies.

Her mother pursued a sensational, three-year-long lawsuit against her father, actor Dennis Crosby, at the conclusion of which he was ordered to pay child support and legal fees. This deeply embarrassed Dennis and his father, actor and singer Bing Crosby. Although Crosby was 19 when her grandfather died, she had never met him.

Crosby was married to Geoffrey Edwards, son of director Blake Edwards, from 1983 to 1990. She appeared in a number of her former father-in-law's films, including Trail of the Pink Panther, and Curse of the Pink Panther, playing Denise, the moll of Mafia don Bruno, played by Robert Loggia.

### Selected Filmography

#### January 31, 1986: Eliminators

> *"Mandroid. Mercenary. Scientist. Ninja. Each one a specialist. Together they are ELIMINATORS!"*
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***Eliminators*** is a science fiction action film starring Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby and Patrick Reynolds. The plot centres around a "Mandroid" constructed by an evil scientist (Roy Dotrice) from the body of a downed pilot (Reynolds), who teams up with the scientist responsible for android technology (Crosby), her pet robot Spot, a riverboat guide (Prine), and a martial arts warrior (Conan Lee).

#### 1987-94: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Crosby plays Security Chief Tasha Yar in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela.

#### July 1, 1988: Arizona Heat

***Arizona Heat*** is an American action film starring Michael Parks, Denise Crosby, Hugh Farrington and directed by John G. Thomas.

A tough Arizona cop is teamed with a lesbian cop to catch a serial killer who preys on police.

#### May 19, 1989 (US); January 18, 1991 (UK): Miracle Mile

> *"There are 70 minutes to the end of the world. Where can you hide?"*
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***Miracle Mile*** is an American apocalyptic thriller film starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time. It is named after the Miracle Mile neighbourhood of Los Angeles, where most of the action takes place.

A young man (Edwards) meets and falls in love with a young woman (Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles. IMDb.com

Denise Crosby plays Landa, a mysterious businesswoman, who calls a number of politicians in Washington on her wireless phone and finds that they are all visiting South America at the same time. Convinced of the danger, she immediately charters several private jets out of LAX to a compound in a region in Antarctica with no rainfall. Most of the customers and staff leave with her in the owner's delivery van.

The soundtrack was produced by Tangerine Dream.

#### 1989: Pet Sematary

Crosby plays Rachel Creed, mother of a family who move to Maine, close to an isolated pet cemetery in a forest...

#### September 1, 1991 (UK); October 18, 1991 (US): Dolly Dearest

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***Dolly Dearest*** is an American 1991 horror film starring Denise Crosby and Rip Torn. The movie was initially supposed to be direct-to-video, but did get a limited theatrical release.

In Mexico, Karl Resnick (Torn), an archaeologist, releases the evil spirit of a devil child from a tomb of an ancient tribe called Sanzia that worshipped Satan on Earth and dies in an accident. Immediately after, an American family with two children arrives to live and reactivate a factory of dolls in a site nearby the archaeological field. Elliot Wade (Sam Bottoms) invested the savings of his family in this business to manufacture dolls. He finds many dolls left by the previous owners of the factory, and gives one of them, which is possessed by the fiend, to his daughter Jessica Wade (Candace Hutson). The girl changes her behaviour, speaks an ancient language and the maid tells the mother Marilyn Wade (Crosby). Meanwhile, Resnick arrives to investigate the finding of his colleague. However, the demon has been already released, threatening the locals and the Wade family.

#### January 19, to June 29, 1993: Key West

***Key West*** is a 13 part drama television series set in Key West, Florida.

The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, where his idol, Ernest Hemingway, had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor, a local newspaper.

In addition to Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the large ensemble cast as the town's high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff, respectively.