American actress who played Rashella, the Aldean woman who takes the infant Alexandra as her own, in the first-season Next Generation episode When the Bough Breaks.
Brenda Strong is an American actress who had one of her early television roles in the first-season Next Generation episode When the Bough Breaks. She plays Rashella, one of the sterile Aldeans who abduct children from the Enterprise-D in the hope of renewing their people, and who becomes devoted to the youngest child, Alexandra.
Rashella is among the first Aldeans to accept that their planetary shield is the cause of their illness.
Strong went on to a long television career. She played Sue Ellen Mischke in Seinfeld and is best known as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of Desperate Housewives, followed by a regular part in the revived Dallas.