American actress, known for Peyton Place and Soylent Green, who played Ezri Dax's domineering mother Yanas Tigan in the Deep Space Nine episode Prodigal Daughter.
Leigh Taylor-Young is an American actress who became known through the television serial Peyton Place and the films I Love You, Alice B. Toklas and Soylent Green, later winning an Emmy Award for Picket Fences.
She guest-starred in the seventh-season Deep Space Nine episode Prodigal Daughter as Yanas Tigan, head of a pergium mining business in the Sappora system and mother of Ezri, Janel and Norvo.
Yanas runs both the company and her children with the same firm hand. Ezri's visit home exposes the family's dealings with the Orion Syndicate and the damage her mother's control has done to her younger son.