American actress and choreographer who played Dr. Beverly Crusher, the Enterprise-D's chief medical officer, in The Next Generation, its films and Star Trek: Picard.
Gates McFadden, an American actress born in 1949, played Dr. Beverly Crusher, chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D, on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She left after the first season, when Diana Muldaur's Katherine Pulaski took over sickbay, and returned from the third season to the end of the series.
Crusher's spotlight episodes include Remember Me, in which she is trapped inside a shrinking warp bubble, and Sub Rosa. McFadden directed the seventh-season episode Genesis, her only directing credit, and choreographed the dance routine in Data's Day. She reprised Crusher in all four Next Generation films and in the third season of Star Trek: Picard, and voiced the character in Star Trek: Prodigy.
Credited as Cheryl McFadden for her choreography, she worked with The Jim Henson Company on films including Labyrinth and The Muppets Take Manhattan, and she later served as artistic director of a Los Angeles theater company.