Canadian actor who played the Barzan security officer Nhan in Star Trek: Discovery, first as a recurring guest in the second season and then as a member of the cast in the third.
Rachael Ancheril is a Toronto-born actor known for her regular role as Marlo Cruz in the police drama Rookie Blue and for recurring parts in Killjoys and Wynonna Earp.
She joined Star Trek: Discovery in the second-season premiere Brother as Nhan, a Barzan engineer from the USS Enterprise who transfers to Discovery and becomes its chief of security. Nhan follows the ship into the thirty-second century.
Ancheril was credited as a regular in the third season but left after a few episodes, when Nhan chooses to stay aboard the seed vault ship Tikhov in Die Trying. She returned as a guest in the fourth and fifth seasons.