American actress who played the ambitious Borg specialist Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Shelby in The Best of Both Worlds.
Elizabeth Dennehy, an American actress, played Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Shelby, the driven Starfleet specialist who arrives to prepare defenses against the Borg in The Best of Both Worlds. Shelby's open ambition for Riker's job and her clashes with him give the two-parter much of its tension, and after Picard is assimilated she becomes Riker's first officer.
Dennehy's other credits include Guiding Light, Seinfeld and Charmed, and the films Clear and Present Danger, Gattaca and Red Dragon.