British film and television director (1942–2022) who became the first woman to direct an episode of Star Trek with Booby Trap and went on to make several more.
Gabrielle Beaumont was a British director who worked widely in American television. With the third-season episode Booby Trap in 1989 she became the first woman to direct any episode of Star Trek.
She was invited back repeatedly over the following years. Her other episodes of The Next Generation include The High Ground, Suddenly Human, Disaster, Imaginary Friend, Face of the Enemy and Lower Decks, the seventh-season story told from the point of view of four junior officers.
Outside Star Trek her credits included many American drama series of the 1980s and 1990s, Dynasty among them.