Birthday: March 2, 1949
Birth Place: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
Birth Name: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Gates McFadden is Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beverly Crusher, in Star Trek The Next Generation.
During the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gates was seen in "Beyond the Groove," a British television production, written and starring the late actor David Rappaport.
Other roles included the lead in the world premiere stage production of Derek Walcott's "Viva Detroit" in Los Angeles, the one-hour drama Marker during UPN's debut season, and the feature films "Taking Care of Business" and "The Hunt for Red October." McFadden also appeared in "The Muppets Take Manhattan." After that, she continued to work with Jim Henson for several years, serving as director of choreography and puppet movement on the film "Labyrinth."
Raised in Ohio, McFadden served on the faculties of several theatre arts training programs around the country including New York University Graduate School of the Arts, Brandeis University and the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.A. cum laude in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University and studied with Jacques LeCoq in Paris for several years. In 1996, Gates gave birth to a next generation of her own, James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot.
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