American actress and director who played half-Klingon chief engineer B'Elanna Torres on Voyager and went on to a prolific directing career.
Roxann Dawson is an American actress and director, born in 1958, who has also been credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson. She played B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager from 1995 to 2001.
Torres, a half-Klingon former Maquis engineer, became Voyager's chief engineer, and her struggle with her mixed heritage, her friendship with Harry Kim and her romance with and marriage to Tom Paris were long-running threads of the series. Her Klingon side was examined in episodes such as Barge of the Dead and Lineage. Dawson made her directing debut on the Voyager episode Riddles in 1999 and later directed the second part of Workforce.
After Voyager she turned primarily to directing, helming ten episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise and episodes of many other series, including Heroes, The Good Wife, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Foundation.