American actor, known for House and Once Upon a Time, who played Winona Kirk, mother of James T. Kirk, in the opening sequence of the 2009 Star Trek film.
Jennifer Morrison is an American actor and director, born in 1979, best known on television as Dr. Allison Cameron in House and as Emma Swan in Once Upon a Time.
In Star Trek (2009) she plays Winona Kirk, who goes into labour aboard the USS Kelvin as the Romulan mining ship Narada attacks. She gives birth to James Tiberius Kirk in an escaping medical shuttle while her husband George, played by Chris Hemsworth, stays behind and rams the Kelvin into the enemy vessel. The couple choose their son's name over the comm channel in his final moments.
The sequence, played largely in close-up amid the evacuation, gives the film its emotional starting point. Morrison has since moved increasingly into directing for television.