American actress, known for Night Court, who played B'Elanna Torres's Klingon mother Miral in Voyager's Barge of the Dead and Doctor Kalandra in Deep Space Nine.
Karen Austin is an American actress who played the court clerk Lana Wagner in the first season of Night Court.
In the fifth-season Deep Space Nine episode Nor the Battle to the Strong she played Doctor Kalandra, a Starfleet surgeon working in a field hospital under Klingon attack on Ajilon Prime.
In the sixth-season Voyager episode Barge of the Dead she played Miral, the mother of B'Elanna Torres. In a near-death vision B'Elanna finds Miral aboard the ship carrying dishonoured souls to Gre'thor, condemned because of her daughter's rejection of Klingon ways, and tries to take her place.