Leslie Hope

Actor (Kira Meru) — Deep Space Nine

Canadian actress and director, known as Teri Bauer in 24, who played Kira Meru, the mother of Kira Nerys, in the Deep Space Nine episode Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night.

Leslie Hope is a Canadian actress whose films include Talk Radio and Crimson Peak. She is widely known for playing Teri Bauer in the first season of 24, and has since worked extensively as a television director.
In Deep Space Nine she appears in the sixth-season episode Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night. Hope plays Kira Meru, a Bajoran woman taken from her family in a refugee camp during the Occupation to serve as a comfort woman on Terok Nor.
Kira Nerys uses the Orb of Time to learn whether Dukat's claim that Meru was his lover is true, and is horrified to watch her mother settle into a comfortable life with the prefect while her family is fed in return.